3,596 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 20th Century
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Judy
California England The 1960s The 1930sJudy Garland: The Legend Behind the Rainbow. — Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband.
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A Translator
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1980sA Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment. Based on a true story.
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Beats
Scotland The 1990s1994, a small town in central Scotland. Best mates Johnno and Spanner, despite being total opposites, have a deep bond. Now on the cusp of adulthood, life is destined to take them in different directions – Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. But this summer is going to be different for them, and for the country.
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The German Lesson
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sIn a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
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Werewolf
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sSummer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the protagonists slowly begin to regain what is left of their childhood but the horror returns quickly. Camp Alsatians roam the forests around. Released by the SS earlier on, they have gone feral and are starving. Looking for food they besiege the palace. The children are terrified and their camp survival instinct is triggered.
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Rocketman
New York California England 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Fantasy — The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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The Golden Glove
🇩🇪 Germany The 20th CenturyA serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
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Mr. Jones
Wales England 🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1930sIn 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sParis, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.
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The Good Liar
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 2000s The 1940sRead between the lies. — Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer, what should have been another simple swindle takes on the ultimate stakes.
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Lev Yashin. The Dream Goalkeeper
🇷🇺 Russia The 1950s The 1960sAn ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.
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Jojo Rabbit
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sAn anti-hate satire. — A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
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Balkan Line
🇷🇸 Serbia 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇽🇰 Kosovo 🇷🇺 Russia The 1990sNo choice — After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK terrorists. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
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Beanpole
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sSet in post-WWII Leningrad as two female soldiers return from war and attempt to rebuild their lives in the ravaged city.
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Lancaster Skies
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sDouglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.
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Pain and Glory
🇪🇸 Spain The 1960sSalvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
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The Load
🇷🇸 Serbia 🇽🇰 Kosovo The 1990sVlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.
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Variações: Guardian Angel
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1980s The 1970sFilm biography dwelling on the hectic artistic life of António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
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The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
🇨🇦 Canada 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1980sAn American Myth — Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot.
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1917
🇫🇷 France The 1910sTime is the enemy — At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
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Blinded by the Light
New Jersey England The 1980sFor anyone who has ever wanted to dream. You're not alone. — In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
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Downton Abbey
England The 1920sWe've been expecting you — The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.
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Celebration
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sBlockade Leningrad, December 31. In the country house of the Resurrection, living "in a special situation," six people and a chicken gather, who no one can cook. Previously, the cook was engaged in this, but the Voskresenskys were taken away from her on the eve - hard times came on the outside, and the situation is also difficult inside: the youngest son brought a hungry girl, the eldest daughter of an unknown man for whom she is going to marry. Before the New Year there are few minutes left, and the number of problems grows snowball.
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The (Silent) War
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sWhen everything's silent, you can't hear your enemies — Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's dictatorship.
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While at War
🇪🇸 Spain 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1930sSometimes silence is the worst lie — Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.
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