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Movies Set in 1921

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Legends of the Fall(1994)

3.7/5 (with 1,114 votes)

An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.

Canterbury Glass(2022)

2h 14min | Drama

Revolves around a doctor and lawyer who form an unlikely partnership.

Amsterdam(2022)

R
| 2h 14min | Mystery, History, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 603 votes)

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.

The Mummy(1932)

NR
| 1h 13min | Horror, Drama, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 250 votes)

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

Michael Collins(1996)

R
| 2h 12min | War, Drama, Thriller, History
3.5/5 (with 212 votes)

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

The Awakening(2011)

R
| 1h 47min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 620 votes)

In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

The Immigrant(2013)

R
| 1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 371 votes)

1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

Shadow of the Vampire(2000)

R
| 1h 32min | Drama, Horror
3.3/5 (with 241 votes)

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu.".

Chaplin(1992)

PG-13
| 2h 23min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 450 votes)

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes(1971)

1h 34min | Comedy, Horror
3.5/5 (with 130 votes)

Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins exacting his revenge on all those involved.

Gun City(2018)

2h 7min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 84 votes)

Barcelona, ​​Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a significant amount of military weaponry stolen from a train, allegedly by revolutionary anarchists.

Mystery of the Wax Museum(1933)

NR
| 1h 17min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 50 votes)

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

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Marguerite(2015)

2h 7min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 125 votes)

Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.

Aelita: Queen of Mars(1924)

3.1/5 (with 27 votes)

A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.

The Rising of the Moon(1957)

1h 21min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about an little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece is called "1921" and is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape. Tyrone Power introduces each story.

Directed by John Ford - With Cyril Cusack, Noel Purcell, Denis O'Dea, Tyrone Power, Noel Purcell, Jack MacGowran, ...

Shake Hands with the Devil(1959)

NR
| 1h 51min | Action, Drama
3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

Joyless Street(1925)

2h 30min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.

1921(2018)

2h 24min | Thriller, Horror
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

When Ayush arrives in England to learn music, he is shocked and scared when the manor he is living in becomes haunted by spirits. To exorcise them, he seeks the help of Rose, a woman who can see and speak with them.

Directed by Vikram Bhatt - With Zarine Khan

Another Life(2001)

1h 41min | Crime
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.

Directed by Philip Goodhew - With Natasha Little, Nick Moran, Ioan Gruffudd, Imelda Staunton

Brillianty dlya diktatury proletariata(1976)

2h 23min | Crime, Action, Drama, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.

The Magic Box(1952)

1h 58min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

Dimensions(2011)

2.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Stephen is a brilliant young boy who lives in England, in what appears to be the 1920s—but nothing in Stephen’s life is quite as it seems. His world is turned upside down upon meeting a charismatic and inspirational professor at a garden party, who demonstrates to Stephen and his friends what life would be like if they themselves were merely one, or two, dimensional beings. He then proceeds to explain that by manipulating other dimensions, time travel may actually be possible. As Stephen’s life unfolds, events lead him to dedicate himself to turning the Professor’s theories of time travel into reality. Jealousy, love, obsession, temptation and greed surround him, influencing his fragile mind and the direction of his work.

Beloved Enemy(1936)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.

The Red and the Black(1985)

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.

Saka - The Martyrs of Nankana Sahib(2016)

2h 10min | History, Drama

A film based on the 1921 Nankana Sahib massacre and the events that led up to it.

The High Command(1937)

1h 24min | Drama, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

Directed by Thorold Dickinson - With Lionel Atwill

The Treaty(1991)

1h 47min | Drama, History, TV Movie, War
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.

Directed by Jonathan Lewis - With Brendan Gleeson, Ian Bannen, Julian Fellowes, Barry McGovern

Sunrise at Campobello(1960)

2h 24min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover - based on the award winning Broadway play of the same name.

The Hero(2016)

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Andrey Kulikov goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, who had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution. On the headstone of the grave next to his great-grandfather's, he notices the face of a young woman. Later, while walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, who looks just like the young woman he had seen on the headstone. And so begins the telling of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.

Directed by Yury Vasilyev - With Dima Bilan

Hostile Whirlwinds(1956)

1h 37min | Drama, History
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

About the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky in 1918-1925. The film covers the most important episodes of his biography. In July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, the German ambassador Mirbach was killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky alone goes to the headquarters of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Anarchists, he manages to persuade ordinary soldiers and sailors, participants in the rebellion, who are now cracking down on their leaders. In 1921, Dzerzhinsky was aimed at combating homelessness, as a result of which, by 1925, former homeless children, having completed their studies, were sent to the construction of Yugostal, the largest industrial plant in Ukraine.

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