Movies Set in 1926

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Oppenheimer(2023)

4.1/5 (with 2,359 votes)

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Directed by Christopher Nolan - With Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, ...

The Princess and the Frog(2009)

| 1h 38min | Romance / Love, Kids & Family, Animation

3.6/5 (with 2,452 votes)

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker

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Babylon(2022)

| 3h 8min | Drama, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 1,186 votes)

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

Directed by Damien Chazelle - With Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Li Jun Li, Jovan Adepo, Katherine Waterston, Max Minghella, ...

The Mummy(1999)

PG-13

| 2h 4min | Adventure, Action, Fantasy

3.5/5 (with 4,208 votes)

Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.

Directed by Stephen Sommers - With Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O'Connor, Oded Fehr, ...

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them(2016)

PG-13

| 2h 12min | Fantasy, Adventure, Kids & Family

3.7/5 (with 8,996 votes)

In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.

Directed by David Yates - With Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Samantha Morton, Ezra Miller, ...

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Hidden Figures(2016)

| 2h 7min | Drama, History

4.0/5 (with 4,514 votes)

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

Directed by Theodore Melfi - With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, ...

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Anastasia(1997)

| 1h 34min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure

3.8/5 (with 2,427 votes)

This animated adventure spins a more optimistic twist on the long-mythicized story of the "lost daughter" of Russia's last czar. A wicked sorcerer places a curse on the Romanov family, and Anastasia is separated from them during their attempts to escape from a rowdy revolt seizing their palace. Years later, after growing up with amnesia in an orphanage, "Anya" encounters two Russian men seeking a reward offered by the Dowager Empress Marie, for the return of her missing granddaughter. They decide to travel together to visit the Empress in Paris. Will Anya finally be reunited with her remaining family and find a loving home at last?

Directed by Don Bluth, Gary Goldman

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The House of the Spirits(1993)

| 2h 20min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.5/5 (with 295 votes)

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

Directed by Bille August - With Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave, ...

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A River Runs Through It(1992)

2h 3min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 449 votes)

A River Runs Through It is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying life circumstances in the untamed west of Montana in the 1920s.

Directed by Robert Redford - With Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Edie McClurg, ...

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The Butler(2013)

PG-13

| 2h 12min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 1,331 votes)

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

Directed by Lee Daniels - With Forest Whitaker, Alex Pettyfer, John Cusack, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, James Marsden, ...

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The Sand Pebbles(1966)

PG-13

| 3h 2min | Adventure, War

3.6/5 (with 97 votes)

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako, Emmanuelle Arsan, ...

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The Dressmaker(2015)

1h 58min | Drama, Comedy, Western

3.5/5 (with 732 votes)

In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.

Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse - With Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook, Caroline Goodall, ...

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Agatha and the Truth of Murder(2018)

PG-13

| 1h 33min | Drama, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 55 votes)

England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to imagine the disproportionate consequences that such a selfless act will cause.

Directed by Terry Loane - With Ruth Bradley, Pippa Haywood, Ralph Ineson, Tim McInnerny, Blake Harrison, Samantha Spiro, ...

Death Defying Acts(2007)

| 1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 113 votes)

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

Directed by Gillian Armstrong - With Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Timothy Spall, Aaron Brown, Leni Harper, ...

Easy Virtue(1928)

1h 25min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.6/5 (with 28 votes)

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Ian Hunter, Dorothy Boyd, Alfred Hitchcock, ...

The Call of Cthulhu(2005)

47min | Horror, Thriller, Fantasy, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 58 votes)

A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.

Directed by Andrew Leman

The Great Waldo Pepper(1975)

| 1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Drama

3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.

Directed by George Roy Hill - With Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis, ...

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Agatha(1979)

| 1h 39min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

Directed by Michael Apted - With Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, Helen Morse, Timothy West, Alan Badel, ...

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Sakura Wars: The Movie(2001)

1h 25min | Action, Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Following in the aftermath of a terrible Demon-Human war, turn of the century Japan is preparing a new fighting force in case the demons decide to return. A squadron of giant robots are built to be controlled by the spirit of the pilot, but it is discovered that the only people with sufficient spirit are young women. After recruiting a team of youths from around the world, the Japanese government decides to keep them a secret by disguising them as a theater troupe, thus requiring them to spend as much time memorizing Shakespeare as they do on military training.

Directed by Mitsuru Hongo

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The Moderns(1988)

| 2h 6min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.

Directed by Alan Rudolph - With Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold, Geraldine Chaplin, ...

Young Woman and The Sea(2023)

1h 40min | Drama

The story of the record-making swimmer's successful 1926 crossing of the English Channel, offering insight into the significance of her accomplishment, the personal price she paid for her achievement, and her abrupt subsequent departure from the public eye.

Directed by Joachim Rønning - With Daisy Ridley, Stephen Graham, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Christopher Eccleston, Jeanette Hain

Sister Aimee(2019)

1h 27min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

In 1926 America’s most famous evangelist is a woman. And she’s looking for a way out. Fed up with her own success, she gets swept up in her lover’s daydreams about Mexico and finds herself on a wild road trip towards the border. Based on true events. Mostly made up.

The Happy Lands(2012)

1h 48min | Drama, History

1.9/5 (with 1 vote)

The Happy Lands tracks the lives of the Brogan, Guthrie and Baxter families as they overcome the economic challenges brought about by the 1926 General Strike.

Directed by Robert Rae

Movies Set in 1926

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Oppenheimer(2023)

The Princess and the Frog(2009)

Babylon(2022)

The Mummy(1999)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them(2016)

Hidden Figures(2016)

Anastasia(1997)

The House of the Spirits(1993)

A River Runs Through It(1992)

The Butler(2013)

The Sand Pebbles(1966)

The Dressmaker(2015)

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Agatha and the Truth of Murder(2018)

Death Defying Acts(2007)

Easy Virtue(1928)

The Call of Cthulhu(2005)

The Great Waldo Pepper(1975)

Agatha(1979)

Sakura Wars: The Movie(2001)

The Moderns(1988)

Young Woman and The Sea(2023)

Sister Aimee(2019)

The Happy Lands(2012)

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