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Movies: Best "20th century" Movies


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Maurice(1987)

2h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 224 votes)

After his lover rejects him, a young man in early 20th century England, trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society, tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

Dance First(2023)

1h 40min | History, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think later”, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.

Directed by James Marsh

Talking the Pictures(2019)

2h 9min | Comedy, History, Drama
3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.

Directed by Masayuki Suo

Golden Kamuy(2024)

2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Based on Noda Satoru's manga, set in late-Meiji in Hokkaido where an ex-army soldier who aims for a huge amount of buried treasure left behind by the Ainu. In early 1900s Hokkaido after the Russo-Japanese war, Saichi Sugimoto tirelessly pans for gold. Nicknamed "Sugimoto the Immortal" for his death-defying acts in battle, the ex-soldier seeks fortune in order to fulfill a promise made to his best friend before he was killed in action: to support his family, especially his widow who needs treatment overseas for her deteriorating eyesight.

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century(2014)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.

Mechanical Principles(1930)

11min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Close up we see pistons move up and down or side to side. Pendulums sway, the small parts of machinery move. Gears drive larger wheels. Gears within gears spin. Shafts turn some mechanism that is out of sight. Screws revolve and move other gears; a bit rotates. More subtle mechanisms move other mechanical parts for unknown purposes. Weights rise and fall. The movements, underscored by sound, are rhythmic. Circles, squares, rods, and teeth are in constant and sometimes asymmetrical motion. These human-made mechanical bits seem benign and reassuring.

Sarabha(2023)

2h 26min | History, Drama, Action
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Young revolutionary Kartar Singh Sarabha fights for Indian Independence in the early 1900s.

Thorvaldsen(1949)

10min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Documentary short film about the work of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), one of the most famous Danish sculptors, who spent a good part of his life in Italy.

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Preben Frank - With Ib Koch-Olsen

Soviet Milk(2023)

1h 50min | Drama, History
4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Young and promising doctor loses everything due to her conflict with the totalitarian Soviet regime – career, love for life and even mother’s instinct denying breast milk to her baby. However, the grown-up daughter becomes her only supporter who tries to help ease mother’s depression and learn to live under the Soviet regime. The lifelines of mother and daughter flow in the occupied Soviet Latvia from 1945 to 1989 when the Soviet Union collapses. “I didn’t want to live and I didn’t want her to drink milk from a mother who doesn’t want to live.” The story is based on the bestseller Soviet Milk by the renown Latvian novelist Nora Ikstena. Soviet Milk has been translated and published in more than 20 countries.

Directed by Ināra Kolmane

Woodstock, 3 days of peace & music(2009)

After several releases of this topic, this is the Ultimate Collector's Edition. Director Michael Wadleigh, who made the original movie back in the sixties, talks about those days and shows "never before seen" performance footage.

Bart Simpson: Do the Bartman(1990)

6min
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A music video featuring Bart Simpson performing his song "Do The Bartman" during a school dance recital, stealing the show.

Bye Sweet Carole(2024)

Set in early 1900s, young Lana Benton, pushed by the gelid Old Hat man, Mr. Kyn, must confront bizarre creatures in a mysterious dream gland as she follows the last traces of Carole, a girl who escaped from Bunny Hall, a 19th-century girls' orphanage infested with wild rabbits.

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Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party(2020)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Song of Freedom(1936)

1h 20min | Drama, Music
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English dockworker with a magnificent voice and a yearning to learn his roots.

Directed by J. Elder Wills - With Elisabeth Welch, Paul Robeson, Robert Adams

Italia: Fire and Ashes(2023)

1h 30min | Documentary, History
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The epic and poetic tale of the early years of Italian cinema, from 1896 to 1930: how peplum was born, how the first stars shone, how many daring filmmakers were able to create an original style amalgamating literature, theater, painting and opera; a tale of splendor and decadence.

Directed by Céline Gailleurd, Olivier Bohler

When Rain and Wind Hit Against Your Window(1967)

1h 26min | Crime, Mystery

The Second World War has just ended, but national partisans are still hiding in Latvia's forests and fighting against the Soviet regime. Ansis Leinasars, who has been tasked to spark a coup in Latvia, arrives by night from across the sea, but his work is hampered at every step. His last hope is a meeting with the partisans in a church...

Directed by Aloizs Brenčs - With Eduards Pāvuls, Harijs Liepiņš, Lilita Ozoliņa

Malevich(2019)

1h 29min | Documentary

A story about the life and work of the twentieth century artist Kazimir Malevich and his influence on world culture.

Sombras Brancas(2023)

1h 54min | Fantasy, Drama

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