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Movies: Best "1920s" Movies


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The Princess and the Frog(2009)

FSK: 0+ years
| 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.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them(2016)

FSK: 6+ years
| 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.

The Mummy(1999)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Babylon(2022)

FSK: 16+ years
| 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.

Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 49min | Drama, Crime
4.2/5 (with 2,468 votes)

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 14min | Fantasy, Adventure, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 5,138 votes)

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

RRR(2022)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 7min | Action, Drama
3.9/5 (with 465 votes)

A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 23min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 5,585 votes)

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

Togo(2019)

4.1/5 (with 870 votes)

The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.

The Banshees of Inisherin(2022)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 953 votes)

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

Directed by Martin McDonagh - With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Pat Shortt, Gary Lydon, Jon Kenny, ...

The Power of the Dog(2021)

2h 5min | Western
3.4/5 (with 1,121 votes)

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

The Lover(1992)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 274 votes)

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

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Singin' in the Rain(1952)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love, Drama
4.1/5 (with 1,350 votes)

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Western
4.0/5 (with 488 votes)

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 26min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.8/5 (with 1,326 votes)

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Changeling(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 21min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 1,868 votes)

Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

The Light Between Oceans(2016)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 623 votes)

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Fireheart(2022)

3.7/5 (with 115 votes)

The film explores the world of firefighters in 1920s New York City and tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who will have to become a hero in order to save her city.

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb(2023)

1h 27min | Documentary, History
3.9/5 (with 86 votes)

Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.

Directed by Chris Cassel - With Christopher Nolan, Jon H. Else, Kai Bird, Bill Nye, Richard Rhodes

The Danish Girl(2015)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 59min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 2,676 votes)

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Miller's Crossing(1990)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 55min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.7/5 (with 690 votes)

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

The Lost City of Z(2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 21min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 1,284 votes)

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

The Last Emperor(1987)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 43min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 712 votes)

A dramatic history of Puyi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

The Fall(2006)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 57min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 553 votes)

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

Chicago(2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 53min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,135 votes)

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

Bullets Over Broadway(1994)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Crime
3.6/5 (with 250 votes)

After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.

The Secret Scripture(2017)

1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 122 votes)

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.

Chaplin(1992)

FSK: 6+ years
| 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.

Downton Abbey(2019)

FSK: 0+ years
| 2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.6/5 (with 490 votes)

The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.

Harlem Nights(1989)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 128 votes)

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

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