151 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1910s
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The Fifth Element
New York ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The Future The 1910sThere is no future without it. โ In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
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Anastasia
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920s The 1910sDiscover the adventure behind the greatest mystery of our time. โ This animated adventure retells the story of the lost daughter of Russia's last czar. The evil Rasputin places a curse on the Romanov family, and Anastasia and her grandmother, Empress Maria, get separated. After growing up in an orphanage, Anastasia encounters two Russian men seeking a reward offered by Empress Maria for the return of her granddaughter. The trio travels to Paris, where they find that the empress has grown skeptical of imposters.
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The Little Princess
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1910sThe film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boarding school in London. Sarah was lonely, but she made some good friends at school. Suddenly her father was announced dead in a mine accident and Sarah became an orphan. Now she goes on a long and dangerous journey to find her father, who loved her and called her a "little princess".
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My Heart Is Mine Alone
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sHelma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schรผler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schรผler makes her way to Jerusalem even as Benn discovers the true nature of the Nazi ideology he had once championed. Lena Stolze and Cornelius Obonya star.
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Victory
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1910sAxel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.
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Captain Conan
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1910sThe last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
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Temptress Moon
Shanghai The 1910s The 1920sSet in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
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A Little Princess
New York ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1910sEvery girl everywhere is a princess. โ When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self- worth.
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Stalin
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sThe life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
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Chunuk Bair
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1910sThe tragedy of Gallipoli is exposed โ The tragedy of Gallipoli is exposed
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Archangel
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1910sA Tragedy of the Great War โ A surrealistic film in which a strangely assorted group of people come together in the Russian Arctic at the height of the revolution and World War One.
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A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 1910sIn 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help the king of the Syrian in the Conference of Peace in Paris.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy New York Utah ๐ต๐น Portugal ๐น๐ท Turkey The 1930s The 1910sThe man with the hat is back. And this time, he's bringing his Dad. โ When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana must team up with Marcus Brody, Sallah and Elsa Schneider to follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life.
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The Last Emperor
Beijing Shanghai The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s1500 slaves. 353,260,000 royal subjects. Warlords. Concubines. And 2 wives. He was the loneliest boy in the world. โ A dramatic history of Pu Yi, 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.
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The Lighthorsemen
๐ต๐ธ Palestine The 1910sThey did what they were told... They didn't know it was impossible! โ Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman Frank is wounded in a skirmish with Bedouin. He is replaced by a young soldier, Dave, who proves to be a crack shot, but reluctant to fire at the enemy. Dave proves himself during a German biplane attack. Recuperating in hospital, he meets a sympathetic nurse, Anne... The regiment is called upon for a bold flanking attack on Beersheba. But how do you convince the Turks the main attack will come at Gaza? And how do you attack across a desert without water?
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The Dreamers
๐ต๐ธ Palestine The 1910sSet in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film chronicles the beginning of the modern Jewish struggle for a homeland.
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Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sStory of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia.
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Peking Opera Blues
Beijing The 1910sThe film is set in 1913 Beijing, during Yuan Shikai's presidency of the Republic of China. It depicts the adventures of a team of unlikely heroines: Tsao Wan, a patriotic rebel who dresses as a man; Sheung Hung, a woman in search of a missing box of jewels; and Pat Neil, the daughter of a Peking Opera impresario.
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The Razor's Edge
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sThe story of one man's search for himself. โ He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.
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Vassa
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1910sScreen adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky "Vassa Zheleznova". Saga of the death of a merchant family. For many years, Vassa Zheleznova has been leading the family business and, despite the inconspicuous children, her dissolute husband, alcoholic brother, and revolutionary daughter-in-law, is trying to maintain at least the appearance of a normal family... 1913 is coming, and everything that was dedicated to her life is wrecked.
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Gandhi
England ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sHis triumph changed the world forever. โ In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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The Postman Fights Back
๐จ๐ณ China The 1910sFour heroes embark on a secret mission for Dr Sun Yat Sen's Nationalist Guard. Relentlessly pursued by the warriors of notorious Warlord Yue Sai Hoi, they have seven days to reach the Lo Yang Pass with their secret cargo.
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Gallipoli
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt Western Australia ๐น๐ท Turkey The 1910sFrom a place you've never heard of, comes a story you'll never forget. โ As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frankโboth agile runnersโbecome friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
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Reds
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920s The 1910sAn account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed (1887-1920), who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant (1885-1936).
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Siberiade
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1960s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1920s The 1950s The 1970s The 1980sThe history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. โ The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil. The oil is found but the destruction of the old cemetry and everything the people of the village cared for followed to get the 'black treasure' of Siberia.
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