6 Films & TV Shows Set In Spain During The 1920s
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The Island of Lies
🇪🇸 Spain The 1920sSpain, 1921. A terrible shipwreck kept secret for far too long — Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely set sail aboard a fragile skiff to save the shipwrecked, are treated as heroes by the cynical authorities; but León, an inquisitive and tenacious Argentinean journalist, starts asking uncomfortable questions.
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Cable Girls: Season 1
🇪🇸 Spain The 1920sIn 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.
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Blancanieves
🇪🇸 Spain The 1920sA black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
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Head in the Clouds
England 🇪🇸 Spain 🇫🇷 France The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThree lives. One destiny. — A romantic drama set in 1930s England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.
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The Adventures of Picasso
🇪🇸 Spain 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA thousand loving lies by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson — Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s; Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill.
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The Sun Also Rises
🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain The 1920sA group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.
