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After the Ball
England The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sThe life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
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Giant
Texas The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sNOW HE'S TOO RICH TO KILL. — Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons.
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Reach for the Sky
England The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThe true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
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Anastasia
🇩🇰 Denmark 🇫🇷 France The 1920sThe most amazing conspiracy the world has ever known... and love as it never happened to a man and woman before! — Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.
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The Boss
The 1920sUncensored and uncut version of a scandalous true story! — A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.
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The Trapp Family
🇦🇹 Austria The 1930s The 1920s"The Trapp Family" is a true story based on the popular novel by the Baroness Von Trapp of Austria. The film was made in 1961, a few years before the other film based on the Trapp Family's life was released - a little movie named "The Sound of Music".
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The Best Things in Life Are Free
The 1920sJohn O'Hara's flaming portrait of the jazz age... and the guys and gals who made it Zing! — Director Michael Curtiz' 1956 showbiz musical, about the careers of the early-20th-century songwriting trio DeSylva, Brown and Henderson, stars Dan Dailey, Gordon MacRae, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North, Tommy Noonan, Larry Keating, Murvyn Vye, Jacques D'Amboise and Phyllis Avery.
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Pavel Korchagin
🇷🇺 Russia The 1920sA Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".
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Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter
🇩🇪 Germany The 1920sIn 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.
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Hostile Whirlwinds
🇷🇺 Russia The 1920s The 1910sAbout the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky in 1918-1925. The film covers the most important episodes of his biography. In July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, the German ambassador Mirbach was killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky alone goes to the headquarters of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Anarchists, he manages to persuade ordinary soldiers and sailors, participants in the rebellion, who are now cracking down on their leaders. In 1921, Dzerzhinsky was aimed at combating homelessness, as a result of which, by 1925, former homeless children, having completed their studies, were sent to the construction of Yugostal, the largest industrial plant in Ukraine.
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Pather Panchali
🇮🇳 India The 1920sImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, his wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu, as well as Harihar's elderly aunt Indir. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life, while their parents suffer the daily indignities heaped upon them.
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I Often Think of Piroschka
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1920sAndreas, a young German student comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas has to leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return some day.
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
California The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe frank, revealing story of Lillian Roth's life! Best-seller now a film sensation. — Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo Van Fleet), Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman (Ray Danton), he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
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Pete Kelly's Blues
New Jersey Kansas Louisiana The 1920s The 1910sA jazz-man of the wide-open '20s - caught in the crossfire of its blazing .38s! — In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
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Ordet
🇩🇰 Denmark The 1920sA Legend for Today — The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
District of Columbia Texas The 1920sHe defied the army and navy . . . and they gave him a Court Martial! — A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
The 1920sBased on D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel of the same name, Lady Chatterley’s Lover stars Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, and Erno Crisa in this controversial tale of adultery! After her husband is paralyzed from fighting in WWI, Lady Chatterley feels a loss of intimacy between her husband and herself, and decides to have an affair with the gamekeeper, a man of a lower class.
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The Jubilee of Mr Ikel
🇭🇷 Croatia The 1920sA man wakes up in his grave and realizes that he's been buried alive. He gets up and arrives home only to find out that his wife and relatives threw a party instead of mourning, looking forward to his big inheritance.
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Native Drums
The 1920sA team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.
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Wreck of the emirate
The 1920s1920. Western countries are trying to use the Bukhara khanate — a former protectorate of tsarist Russia — to fight the Soviet regime. Arrived in Tashkent by M. V. Frunze and V. V. Kuibyshev to organize the masses to fight counter-revolutionaries and agents of foreign intelligence services.
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The Glenn Miller Story
New York The 1930s The 1920sTheir Love Made Such Wonderful Music! — A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
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Twenty-Four Eyes
🇯🇵 Japan The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sSchoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming.
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Chronicle of Poor Lovers
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sIn 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca. Here he becomes friends with Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both of them. When Campolmi is beaten by the fascists, Mario meets Milena, Campolmi's wife, at the hospital and falls in love with her leaving Bianca. Then Maciste is killed, again by the fascists, Ugo is wounded and he seeks shelter in ^ÓSignora^Ô's house. Here he falls in love with Gesuina and the two marry. Campolmi dies, but Mario and Milena part themselves. Later Mario too is arrested by the police.
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Alaska Seas
Alaska The 1920sFrom the Yukon to the Arctic ... They Whisper the Story of the "Highjackers of the North" ! — A crooked salmon fisherman (Robert Ryan) tries to steal his best friend's (Brian Keith) fiancee (Jan Sterling) and put him out of business.
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Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sFirst of two propaganda films about German communist leader Ernst Thälmann that follows him from the Western Front in 1918 through the Hamburg Uprising of 1923.
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The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sAfter the autobiography of the famous surgeon. — Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram out of desperation about her miserable life, a desperation she shared with many in the post-war period. Fortunately, Privy Councillor Sauerbruch is at the scene of the incident, ordering her to be admitted to his clinic after a brief examination. Sauerbruch works both as a university lecturer and as a surgeon, a famous doctor who not only helps his patients physically but also gives them spiritual comfort. After he has taken Olga Ahrendt to his hospital, he discovers during an examination that her suicide attempt is due to a serious physical illness. He intensively takes care of her without forgetting about his other patients, to whom he can give a new will to live, even if only through a small story. And he will also treat Olga Ahrendt successfully...
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The Cutlass
The 1920sDagger will reveal its secret to those who deserve it... — The teenager Misha Polyakov, being with his mother in a Ukrainian village on vacation with his grandmother and about to return home to Petrograd, offers his best friend Genka to go with him. Suddenly, a white gang of Nikitsky bursts into the village and attacks Misha’s house, where Commissioner Polevoy lives. The purpose of Nikitskiy (aka Nikolskiy) is a dagger located at Polevoy. Saving the commissioner, Misha learns from him the history and secret of the weapon, and receives it for storage with a request to solve the secret. Having returned with adventures to Petrograd, Misha Polyakov with friends begins to unravel the riddle of the dagger, in the handle of which is encrypted text.
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Houdini
The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sHis feats of magic were GREAT! The magic of their love was GREATER! — By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.
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Money from Home
New York The 1920sDean and Jerry horse around in 3D — Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that it does not run. He intends to trick his animal-loving cousin Virgil, an apprentice veterinarian, into helping him. Of course, he doesn't tell Virgil what he is really up to. Mistaken identities are assumed, while along the way, Virgil meets a female vet and Herman falls for the owner of the horse.
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Neapolitan Turk
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sNaples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
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Flickan från Backafall
The 1920sSet on the island of Ven in the 1920s, Ellen is engaged with Per the sailor and waits for him while he is away at sea. She works as a maid in a rich family where Robert, the black sheep of the family, tries to seduce her. This leads to a rumour she has been unfaithful to Per. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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The Eddie Cantor Story
The 1920s The 1900sBig and Bright as Those Banjo Eyes! — Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.
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Puccini
The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sProduced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
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Singin' in the Rain
California The 1920sWhat a Glorious Feeling! — In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
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The Quiet Man
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sAction... Excitement... Romance... Fill the Screen! — An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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Carbine Williams
North Carolina The 1920sThis is my Story — David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
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Belles on Their Toes
New Jersey The 1920sThe new adventures of the "Cheaper By the Dozen" family! — The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Vermont The 1920sHow you'll cheer the hit songs of the roaring twenties! — When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
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Little Aurore's Tragedy
Quebec The 1910s The 1920sA little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father thereby taking the dead woman's place and becoming the little girl's stepmother. After unwisely revealing to the stepmother that she knows the reason for her mother's death; Arore is abused by her stepmother who hopes that in torturing the child she can keep her silent. The father, who is absent during the day farming the land, closes his eyes or refuses to believe his new wife is abusive when confronted by the sight of his miserable burnt and beaten child.
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The Magic Box
The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sA rich and deeply moving story of a man whose achievement opened up a new world, and of the two women whose love and sacrifices made it possible! — Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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The Winning Team
The 1920s The 1910sTo every man who plays for the love of the game....To every woman who has ever played the wonderful game of love.....We promise an experience of heart-warming warmth and excitement. — Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.
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The Happy Time
Ontario The 1920s"Eet ees magnifique". And it's all about the birds and the bees...and a lot of delightful people. — A violinist (Charles Boyer) and his brother (Louis Jourdan) guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
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The Four Poster
New York The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sIn turn-of-the-century New York, the marriage of John and Abby Edwards unfolds over the years.
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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Illinois The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1940s The 1890sAt the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and others.
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Sirocco
🇸🇾 Syria The 1920sBEYOND CASABLANCA . . . Fate, in a Low-cut Gown, Lies in Wait for Bogart! — A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
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Hollywood Story
California The 1920sWe can't tell you what this picture is about ... without giving away the secret that rocked the lives of five fabulous people! — A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film star shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
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