116 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1920s
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The Twelve Chairs
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920sA wild and hilarious chase for a fortune in jewels. โ 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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The Flight
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐น๐ท 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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You Can't Win 'Em All
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1920sTwo soldiers of fortune matching wits and guns against the armies of two nations! โ 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 Castle of Fu Manchu
๐น๐ท 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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Bonivur's Heart
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920sA young Komsomol member Vitaly Bonivur is fighting for Soviet power in the Far East and Primorye. Red underground workers are not the first day want to arrange an escape of their fellow prisoners. And the brave Bonivur takes part in the organization of the getaway, but for counterintelligence he remains elusive. Vitaly Bonivur's aspiration for justice, heroism and determination โ courage and bravery of a young man who fights for a bright future.
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Two Comrades Were Serving
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920sSet during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day.
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The Golden Calf
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1920sA crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.
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The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1920sThe action takes place in 1920 during the Civil War. Crimea on the eve of complete liberation from the White Guards. Returning from patrol, the four brave โelusiveโ knocked down an airplane. In the field bag of the captured pilot, they find a secret report, which speaks of the existence of defensive fortifications around the coastal city, which the Reds have yet to take. Young heroes get the task to get a map of fortifications and go to the city...
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The Mummy's Shroud
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1920sBeware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet! โ Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
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The Commissar
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1920sKlavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
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The Republic of ShKID
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920s The 1910sThe film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
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The Elusive Revengers
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1920sDan'ka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge they join forces with an intellectual from the city Valerka and jipsy Yashka, but before they get close to their enemy they have to help their village and advancing Red Army.
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Doctor Zhivago
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sTurbulent were the times and fiery was the love story of Zhivago, his wife and the passionate, tender Lara. โ The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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The East Is Red
Tibet The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sPre-Cultural Revolution propaganda at its most lavish, this model opera depicts the history and evolution of the Communist Party of China under Mao Zedong from its founding in July 1921 to the establishment of "New China" in 1949. Detailed in the musical are several key events in CPC history such as the Northern Expedition, the KMT-led Shanghai massacre of 1927, the Nanchang Uprising and formation of the People's Liberation Army, the Long March and the founding of the PRC on October 1, 1949.
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Lawrence of Arabia
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sA mighty motion picture of action and adventure! โ The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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Probation
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920sTwo young friends are starting their careers as criminal investigators during the first years after revolution.
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Quiet Flows the Don
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920s The 1910sThe epic film based on Mikhail Sholokhov's classic novel in COLOR โ Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist โ Grigoriy Melekhov.
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Miles of Fire
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920sCivil War. Southern steppes of Russia. Circumstances bring together various people: the Chekist, professor, actor, nurse and White Guard officer posing as a vet. On two tachanka's they make their way into the city.
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Pavel Korchagin
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920sA Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".
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Hostile Whirlwinds
๐ท๐บ 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
๐ฎ๐ณ 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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Twenty-Four Eyes
๐ฏ๐ต 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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