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Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer
🇫🇷 France The 1900sCantal, France, 1905. In the forest surrounding his native village, the young seminarian Bruno Reidal murders a boy before surrendering immediately to the authorities. In prison, under interrogation for weeks, he faces a panel of three doctors attempting to understand his lethal impulses. They order Bruno to retrace his past by writing his life story, as they try to identify the events or the anomaly that could have led to such an atrocity.
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The King of Laughter
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sBeloved Neapolitan actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta, father of Eduardo De Filippo, devoted his entire life to the theater, achieving success with timeless works such as "Miseria e nobiltà." However, everything he worked for seems lost in 1904, when he's drawn into a nasty legal battle that could compromise his freedom of expression.
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Radioactive
Ohio Nevada 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇷 France 🇵🇱 Poland 🇺🇦 Ukraine Hiroshima Prefecture The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sPioneer. Genius. Rebel. — The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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Enola Holmes
England The 1890s The 1880s The 1900sMystery runs in the family. — While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
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Tesla
New York Pennsylvania Colorado The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sThe story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.
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Silver Skates
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900s The 1890sA Magical Journey Awaits You! — 1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.
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Dance of the Forty One
Ciudad de México The 1900sMexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.
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Bulbbul
🇮🇳 India The 1900s The 1880sA child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.
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Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker: Season 1
Indiana New York The 1900s The 1910sThis limited series chronicles the incredible true story of Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first African American self-made millionaire.
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The Professor and the Madman
England The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870s The 1880sThe incredible true story that defined our world. — Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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Lady and the Tramp
Louisiana The 1900sBe loyal. Be brave. Be loved. — The love story between a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady and a streetwise mongrel named Tramp. Lady finds herself out on the street after her owners have a baby and is saved from a pack by Tramp, who tries to show her to live her life footloose and collar-free.
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Mute Fire
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1900sOn 6 March 1906, four men were executed for the attempted murder of Colombian president Rafael Reyes. The event was photographed, and the photos were later used for a fictionalised film on the failed coup. From then on, cinema in this South American country has been inextricably linked to its violent history. Moving images have been used for historiography, propaganda, disinformation and to instil unity in a nation that refuses to come together. Falsos positivos, murdered youths disguised as guerrillas by the army to simulate military success, are a common element.
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Martin Eden
🇮🇹 Italy The 1900sThe tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
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The Prisoner of Sakura
Ehime Prefecture The 1900sWith all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".
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Ottilie von Faber-Castell - Eine mutige Frau
🇩🇪 Germany The 1890s The 1900s The 1910sHead of the famous pencil corporation tries to make his 16 year old granddaughter ready to take his place.
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Winchester
California The 1900s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sTerror is building. — San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.
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Dilili in Paris
🇫🇷 France The 1900sWith the help of her delivery-boy friend, Dilili, a young Kanak, investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing Belle Epoque Paris. In the course of her investigation she encounters a series of extraordinary characters, each of whom provides her with clues that will help her in her quest.
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Apostle
Wales The 1900sYour god can't help you. — In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.
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La Bolduc
Quebec The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe life story of Mary Travers, a musician and singer of French Canadian music.
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
🇫🇷 France The 1870s The 1880s The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1940sShe saw the future through the camera lens — The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
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Goyo: The Boy General
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1890s The 1900sRemember who you are — With this film (the second war trilogy set during the Filipino-American war in the early 1900s), the revolution marches on against the Americans after the bloody death of General Antonio Luna. The conflicted philosophies behind the heroic struggle continue and become personified in the colorful character of General Gregorio "Goyo" del Pilar.
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The Lost City of Z
England 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇫🇷 France 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA man's reach should exceed his grasp... or what's a heaven for? — 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.
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Victoria & Abdul
Scotland England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇳 India The 1900s The 1880sHistory's most unlikely friendship. — Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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Hello Again
New York The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 2000s The 2010sA Musical Love Affair Spinning Through Time — Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained musical exploration of love's bittersweet embrace. A film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's celebrated musical, originally based on Arthur Schnitzler's play, La Ronde.
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Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story
🇨🇳 China The 1900s The 1870sThere is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her choice, leaving her son Sergei to grow up struggling to understand why his mother took such a tragic and terrible path, and Count Vronsky haunted by the memory of the woman for whose death he still blames himself 30 years later. In 1904, in the aftermath of one of the battles of the Russo-Japanese war, Sergei Karenin and Alexei Vronsky find themselves thrown together in a remote Manchurian village, where fate offers them a chance to return to the events long past and, finally, to find the answers both have long been seeking.
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The Tesla World Light
New York The 1900sNew York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor.
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Chocolat
🇫🇷 France The 1880s The 1890s The 1900s The 1910sThe true story of the first black artist. — The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.
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Cezanne and I
🇫🇷 France The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1850s The 1860s The 1900sThey loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.
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Kill or Be Killed
Texas The 1900sYou reap what you sow. — In the autumn of 1900, outlaw Claude Barbee puts his 'retirement plan' in action, attempting to lead his train-robbing gang across Texas to recover a cash stash hidden after a botched railroad heist.
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The Dancer
🇫🇷 France The 1890s The 1900sA young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.
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Paula
🇩🇪 Germany The 1900s The 1890sPainting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
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Queen of the Desert
England 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sOne woman can change the course of history — A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Crimson Peak
New York The 1900s The 1880sLove makes monsters of us all. — In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
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Suffragette
England The 1910s The 1900sMothers. Daughters. Rebels. — Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
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Sunset Song
Scotland The 1900sAn epic story of love, loss and the land that inspired it all. — The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
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The Sound and the Fury
Mississippi The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sMan is the sum of his misfortunes — A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
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Diary of a Chambermaid
🇫🇷 France The 1900sFrance, around 1900. Coming from the vibrancy of Paris, pert Célestine is procured as a chambermaid in Normandy. In the Lanlaire's villa she encounters the lecherous man of the house and his asexual, tyrannical and jealous wife. Célestine is determined to avoid the fate suffered by the cook Marianne who has already secretly killed one child born out of wedlock and now despairingly realises she is pregnant again. The lively maid is intrigued by what the mysterious manservant Joseph is up to: he distributes anti-Semitic leaflets and suggests that she could work for him as a prostitute in Cherbourg…
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Endless Night
🇬🇱 Greenland The 1900sEllesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of her husband, the explorer Robert Peary, who tries to find a route to the North Pole.
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Embrace of the Serpent
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1940s The 1900sA poetic and haunting journey into a lost world. — The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
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The Go-Between
England The 1900sAn elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.
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Damiana Kryygi
🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇾 Paraguay The 1890s The 1900sThe year is 1896. In the dense jungle of Paraguay a three years old Ache girl survives a slaughter perpetrated by white settlers. The girl is named Damiana by her captors. Anthropologists from the La Plata Museum of Natural Sciences in Argentina take her as an object of scientific interest in the context of their racial studies. Later she is handed over to a family where she grows up as a maid. In 1907, at the age of 14, she is committed to a mental institution. There she is photographed naked just two months before her death from tuberculosis. Once dead her body is studied in La Plata and in Berlin. One hundred years later, an anthropology student identifies part of her remains in the La Plata museum. Her head is found soon after at Charite Hospital in Berlin.
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Attabu 2
🇹🇼 Taiwan The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe film documents the rise and fall of the Wufeng Lin family in Wufeng, Taiwan over the turbulent years of Taiwan under the administrations of the Qing dynasty, Japan, and Republic of China.
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United Passions
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1900sEvery dream has its own rules — An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and passion, three men, overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga celebrates the event that became the most popular sporting event in the world.
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Sunstroke
🇷🇺 Russia The 1920s The 1900sIn a Crimean filtration camp, after the evacuation of the White Army, an unnamed captain is haunted by memories of a brief romance as he tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame.
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Iyobinte Pusthakam
The 1900sSet in the backdrop of the picturesque Munnar, it tells the story of Iyob, a slave-turned-master.
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Oz the Great and Powerful
Kansas The 1900sIn Oz, nothing is what it seems. — Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
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Saving Mr. Banks
California England Queensland The 1960s The 1900sWhere her book ended, their story began. — Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
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Teenage
England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe birth of youth culture — Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling evidence that teenagers had a tumultuous effect on the previous half-decade.
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Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie
England The 1900s The 1890s The Middle AgesEver since the world was born, two forces have been locked in perpetual battle. Their struggle is so Manichean, so ferocious, so Herculean that it makes the clash between good and evil look like a game of checkers! This ancestral duel is so ancient and so merciless that it can only be, Oggy against the Cockroaches!
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Life Feels Good
🇵🇱 Poland The 1900s The 1980s The 2000sMateusz is an intelligent, romantic young man tragically trapped inside his own body, suffering from severe cerebral palsy that makes speech and controlled movement nearly impossible. Born into a loving family, Mateusz’s protected world is shattered when circumstances place him in an institution where he is misunderstood and mistreated. Featuring an astonishing, virtuoso lead performance, Life Feels Good beautifully recounts the true story of one man’s extraordinary efforts to endure in the face of impossible odds.
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