3,596 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 20th Century
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The Informer
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sA man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
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Three Live Ghosts
England The 1910sAn investigator is asking Mrs. Gubbins about a William Foster, who was a friend of her stepson Jimmy. Both are listed as killed in action during the Great War. It is Armistice Day, 1918, and the war is over. Who should be strolling down the street but Jimmy Gubbins, Bill 'Jones' and another man who has lost his memory. They are ghosts as the official records list them as dead and not as escaped P.O.W's. Jimmy's mother is not happy to see that Jimmy is still living as she has been spending the death benefits, but she is happy to see Bill as there is a large reward for him. No one knows much about the third one, called 'Spoofy', except that he can steal anything at anytime and that gets everyone is trouble.
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Melodie des Herzens
๐ญ๐บ Hungary The 1900sA young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
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The Sky Hawk
England The 1910sJack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under suspicious circumstances. Invalided to private life, to the shame of his father, Lord Bardell, he gets his chance for redemption during a German Zepplin attack over London. He puts on a good show.
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The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1910sIn Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law.
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Kitty
England ๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sA shopgirl loves a paralysed amnesiac and kidnaps him from his interfering mother.
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October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1910sSergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
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Underground
England The 1920sThe Thrilling Romance of London's Underground Railways. โ A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men - gentle Bill and brash Bert - meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...
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Easy Virtue
England The 1920sLarita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.
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The Wedding March
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1910sA young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.
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L'Argent
๐ซ๐ท France The 1920sAdapted from the novel L'Argent by รmile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1900s The 1890sWatch your own first timid flight of young love unfold before your eyes in this sweet-scented romance. Hear the "Student Prince" music. โ A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
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Four Sons
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1910sBig as the Heart of Humanity! โ A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
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The Mysterious Lady
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1910sShe made a wonderful companion...a bitter enemy...but what a sweetheart โ A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in danger.
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Homecoming
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1910sFollowing World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.
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The Terror
England The 1920sGuests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
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Dawn
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1910sA nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
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The Blue Danube
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1910sMarguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair, having been made suspicious by the hunchback Ludwig, who is smitten by Marguerite's charms and insanely jealous of Statzen. Statzen's uncle would have him marry Helena Boursch, the local brewer's daughter, to save his dwindling estate. Ordered to the front when war is declared, Statzen is forced to leave without saying goodby to Marguerite.
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The Woman Disputed
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1910sAn adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
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The Guns of Loos
England The 1910sSet against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlawโs munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
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Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1910sAnastasia's supposed escape and possible survival was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the 20th century, provoking many books and films. At least ten women claimed to be her, offering varying stories as to how she had survived. Anna Anderson, was maybe the best known Anastasia impostor.
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Clothes Make the Woman
California ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1910sThe strange drama and romance of a princess without a name! Told against the background of grim Russia and gay Hollywood! โ A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
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The Gallant Hussar
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ญ๐บ Hungary The 1900s - load more