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It Can't Be!
🇷🇺 Russia The 1920sThe film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
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The Divine Nymph
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sIn the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
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The Fortune
California The 1920sSexier than the Marx Brothers, handsomer than Laurel and Hardy but not as smart as The 3 Stooges — Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.
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Lies My Father Told Me
Quebec The 1920sNo one ever said it was easy being a child. — A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
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The Wild Party
The 1920sHollywood in the '20s...Gin, Sin and a Night they're still whispering about! — Loosely based on the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, an aging silent movie comic star tries for a comeback by staging a wild party that turns into a sexual free-for-all. The comic ends up killing his mistress and her latest boyfriend.
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The Legend of Valentino
The 1920sA "dramatization" of the life of actor Rudolph Valentino, widely regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol.
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The Godfather: Part II
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇮🇹 Italy Nevada New York The 1900s The 1950s The 1940s The 1920s The 1910sI don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies. — In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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The Front Page
Illinois The 1920s The 1930sThey'd do anything for a story…and do. — A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
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Blood for Dracula
🇷🇸 Serbia 🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sHe couldn't live without a virgin's blood..... ...So a virgin had to die! — Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
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Mame
New York Connecticut Georgia The 1930s The 1920sShe'll coax the blues right out of your heart! — The film focuses on eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to her care.
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At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
🇷🇺 Russia The 1920sFollowing the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was entrusted with is stolen, initially by a group of assassins and then by a group of bandits. In tracking the gold’s whereabouts, Shilov’s motives are questioned and he is suspected of treason, in part because his brother was a devoted White. In an effort to clear his name, Shilov locates the gold, but he also discovers rampant greed and corruption.
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Charleston
The 1920sThis film has the typical air of Italian action/gangster comedies from that period - it is a perfectly charming and funny sort of comedy. The cliches of black and white are wonderfully maintained in this movie as the good guys are clever and witty and the bad ones are bad and pretty dumb. The "Shakespearian" dream of the "good" Mafioso a bit stupid but then a film like that seems in need of a few blunders.
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Rebellion in Patagonia
The 1920sIn 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
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Till Marriage Do Us Part
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 1920s The 1910sThe Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.
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The Bronze Bird
The 1920sThree friends in a summer camp are looking for a treasure hidden in a old mansion.
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Lovin' Molly
Texas The 1960s The 1940s The 1920sMolly Taylor: In love with love… and who knew didn't matter. — Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
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Alluri Seetha Ramaraju
The 1920sCinematic version of the life of the legendary freedom fighter.
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Little Laura and Big John
Florida The 1920s... They'll Steal Into Your Heart -- Then Shoot Their Way Out!! — Based on a true story, this action-packed, hard-hitting depiction of the infamous Ashley gang - who terrorized the southeast in the 1920's - also illustrates a desperate love between two people destined for destruction.
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Amarcord
🇮🇹 Italy The 1930s The 1920sThe Fantastic World of Fellini! — In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
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Even Angels Eat Beans
The 1920sAl Capone... Get lost! Dillinger... Phooey on you! Here come the funniest crooks since crime began! — Two nice guys, a wrestler and an Ice-cream vendor are mistaken for dangerous killers by an important local gangster, whose nickname is Sorriso. With the help of many coincidences they play along with Sorriso "working" for him, just to survive, but, when they receive the order to butcher the components of a very indigent family they are unmasked.
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Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural
The 1930s The 1920sRun, little girl! Innocence is in peril tonight! — A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police, only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee, receives a letter stating that her father is near death and that he needs to see her. Sneaking away at night from her minister guardian, Lila embarks on a terrifying journey...
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The Assassination of Matteotti
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sHow the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
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The Cutlass
The 1920sA Red Army officer Polevoy possesses a navy dirk with a secret message encrypted in its handle. The second part of a message belongs to a White army officer Nikitskiy. It's up to three young friends of Polevoy to uncover the mystery.
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All Sons of the Saintest Mother
Illinois The 1920sTwo crime families battle for supremacy in 1929 Chicago in this Italian crime spoof. One group, known as the "Sons of Mammasantissima" thereby professes its (ironic) dedication to the Virgin Mother. The other family works undercover from a Salvation Army soup kitchen. Neither family seems capable of accomplishing anything of note until a wily Sicilian arrives on the scene and sorts things out.
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Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
Kansas The 1920sThe story of Ace Eli... when planes were young and the world was innocent... except for Ace's son Rodger... Rodger of the Skies. — The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, not long after World War I. Eli (Cliff Robertson), a barn storming pilot who has the emotional make-up of an 11-year-old, and Rodger (Eric Shea), his 11-year-old son who possesses the wisdom of the ancients, set off to see the world, which means flying all the way to San Willow. To Eli, San Willow seems to be as fabled as Xanadu and quite as remote. In essence, "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies" is about the adventures of Rodger and Eli getting from nowhere to nowhere. Eli, a killer with the ladies at first, always leaves them unsatisfied. He seems to have a sex problem. Rodger spends a lot of his time getting his dad out of scrapes. He also drinks, smokes and goes to sleep at night crying for his deceased mom.
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Dr. Phibes Rises Again
England 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1920sFlesh crawls! Blood curdles! Phibes lives! — The vengeful Doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
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Lady Sings the Blues
New York The 1930s The 1920sDiana Ross sings Billie Holiday and a superstar is born — Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
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Bluebeard
🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930s The 1920sHe had a WAY with the world's most beautiful, most seductive, most glamorous women ...he did AWAY with them. — Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.
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Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sIn Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls.
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Ceplis
The 1920sAction takes place in Latvia in 1920-thies. Entrepreneurial Edgar Ceplis establishes a joint-stock company to produce and export clay bricks. A strory about the destructive human features: envy, greed, selfishness, cynicism, cruelty.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
England 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1920sLove means never having to say you're ugly. — 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.
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The Boy Friend
The 1920sEMI-MGM Presents The Return Of Entertainment — The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
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12 Chairs
🇷🇺 Russia The 1920sA former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
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Two English Girls
🇫🇷 France Wales The 1900s The 1920sAt the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become very close and he gradually falls in love with Muriel. But both families lay down a one-year-long separation without any contact before agreeing to the marriage. So Claude goes back to Paris when he has many love affairs before sending Muriel a break-off letter...
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Sacco & Vanzetti
Massachusetts The 1920sBoston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchic political convictions.
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Rum Runners
The 1920sDuring the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
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The Twelve Chairs
🇷🇺 Russia The 1920sA wild and hilarious chase for a fortune in jewels. — A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family jewels were hidden in a chair, one of a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the hidden fortune.
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Tristana
The 1930s The 1920sSomewhere between the innocent girl and the not so innocent mistress is the bizarre, sensuous story of Tristana — Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio. Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women. Taken from the novel by celebrated author Benito Perez Galdos.
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The Virgin and the Gypsy
The 1920sThe minister's daughter. Her father taught her about God. The gypsy taught her about Heaven. — Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.
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The Flight
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia 🇹🇷 Turkey The 1920sThe film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the run" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile. Sentimental without syrup, tragic and comical at the same time.
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Vengeance!
Beijing The 1920sDavid Chiang plays a driven and violent martial artist bent on avenging his older brother, killed by a cabal of four wicked businessmen and a cheating wife.
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The Taste of the Black Earth
🇵🇱 Poland The 1920sDuring the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.
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You Can't Win 'Em All
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1920sTwo soldiers of fortune matching wits and guns against the armies of two nations! — Two former U.S. Army soldiers, Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, join a band of Turkish mercenaries in 1922 Turkey whom are hired by Osman Bey, a local governor, to escort his three daughters to Smyran and to protect a gold shipment that is to accompany them. Nobody is aware that Elci, a local colonel, plans to steal the gold for himself, while a rebel general persues all parties involved.
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The End of Ataman
The 1920sA Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill the ataman Dutov, a White collaborator. In order to get close to the ataman he infiltrates his gang.
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Le bal du comte d'Orgel
The 1920sNobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.
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The Castle of Fu Manchu
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1920sThe evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol's very British Nayland Smith.
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