3,596 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 20th Century
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The Greater Glory
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1910sA story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
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Private Izzy Murphy
๐ซ๐ท France New York The 1910sIsadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen Cohannigan, the daughter of a meat-packer, and he tells her he is Irish and a romance begins. When America enters World War I, "Izzy" enlists, is sent to France, and is wounded while engaged in a heroic rescue during a big battle. While recovering in an overseas hospital, he writes Eileen and tells her he is Jewish and not Irish. Returning home, he is parading with his regiment and he sees Eileen with Robert O'Malley, his old rival. He thinks she has thrown him over because he is Jewish. An Irish lodge comes to bestow an honor on the man they think is Patrick Murphy, an Irish hero. But O'Malley tells them his real name is Goldberg. But Eileen tels him it is he she loves, and they head for the marriage-license bureau.
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Paris
๐ซ๐ท France The 1900sAll the mystery, the glamour, the romance that stalk on every side when the clocks strike midnight in gay Paree. โ The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.
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Mademoiselle from Armentieres
๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sA French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy.
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Mons
๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sA reconstruction of the arrival of the British Army in France in August 1914, and of the retreat from Mons.
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Battleship Potemkin
๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1900sRevolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun. โ A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
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The Big Parade
๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sThe epic of the American doughboy! โ The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
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Joyless Street
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1920sOpen any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery. โ In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
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Oberst Redl
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1910sAustria silent film from 1925 directed by Hans Otto, telling the story about the Austrian officer who rose to head the counter-intelligence efforts of Austria-Hungary. He was himself a paid spy for the Russians.
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The Dark Angel
England The 1910sAlan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vilma Bรกnky) have grown up together, as close playmates When World War I starts, both Alan and Gerald enlist in the British Army as officiers, and Kitty sees them off to war. Many months later, Alan and Gerald come back to Kitty, on a short furlow. Alan and Kitty reveal their love for each other. Gerald (who's in love with Kitty, too) congratulates his friends. But before Kitty and Alan can arrange to be married the next day, the furlow is cut short and both men head back to the front lines. Weeks later, Gerald will not give Alan leave to marry Kitty. Still arguing, both men volunteer for a reconiscience raid into enemy lines, where a grenade goes off near Alan and appears to kill him. Gerald and Kitty mourn Alan's death. After the war ends, Gerald and Kitty become engaged to be married.
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Aelita: Queen of Mars
๐ท๐บ Russia Mars The 1920sA young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
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Lily of the Dust
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1900sLily, a poor and friendless orphan, is married to a sensual and elderly Colonel in the German army who divorces her when he finds her with a former officer sweetheart. Introduced by a girl friend to Bohemian society, Lily loses the love of the young officer and marries her former lover, a wealthy art connoisseur.
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Three Ages
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1920s Ancient HistoryA cyclone of laughs and thrills โ The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
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Merry-Go-Round
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1910sA nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
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The Man Without Desire
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1920s The 18th CenturyA doctor suspends the life of a mourning lover and he is revived 200 years later.
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Kลnigsmark
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1910sTo fulfill her Father's wish, Grand Duchess Aurora (Huguette Duflos) is forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph (Henry Houry). He prepares to leave for the Congo but is murdered by his own brother (Georges Vaultier). Aurora goes to Paris with her father and, there, is told on the phone of her husband's death. After returning to the Kingdom, she meets a tutor (Jaque Catelain) who falls in love with her..
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A Couple of Down and Outs
England The 1910sAn ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.
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Love One Another
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1900s The 1890sBased on the novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne-Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.
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The Green Temptation
๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sGenelle and Gaspard operate an itinerant Parisian theatre in which the greatest profits are realized by picking the pockets of the audience and robbing their homes while they are watching the show. When the First World War breaks out, Genelle volunteers as a Red Cross nurse and renounces her criminal ways. She travels to America, but re-encounters Gaspard, who is determined to use her new contacts in the upper class to continue their larcenous partnership.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฆ๐ท Argentina The 1910sSet in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
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The Murder of General Gryaznov
๐ฌ๐ช Georgia The 1900sRevolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.
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How Kitchener Was Betrayed
England The 1910sA dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.
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