Films about the beginning of the 20th century

Films about the beginning of the 20th century
List of the best films about the beginning of the 20th century according to the audience: Everlasting Moments, A Dangerous Method, Finding Neverland, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, American Grindhouse, Queen of the Desert, Pete's Dragon, Road to Utopia, Madame Curie, Lady and the Tramp.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, history
CountrySweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany
Duration02:11

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration01:39

    Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, family, biography
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:37

    Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece “Peter Pan.”

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada
    Duration02:44

    A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrehorror, action, comedy, documentary, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:20

    This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Morocco
    Duration03:10

    A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA

    The love story between a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady and a streetwise mongrel named Tramp. Lady finds herself out on the street after her owners have a baby and is saved from a pack by Tramp, who tries to show her to live her life footloose and collar-free.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom
    Duration02:22

    An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat, are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Hungary, Netherlands
    Duration02:37

    After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:06

    Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA

    Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, family, history
    CountryUSA

    Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration01:16

    Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady's home make her decide to travel with him for a while.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:12

    Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious scripture. When Yentl's father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith -- so she disguises herself as a male, enrolls in a religious school, and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancé back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action
    CountryUSA

    After X-Corp, a radical weapons manufacturer, is taken over by a Cyber Virus, a group of survivors must fight to save humanity from the army of Machines the Virus now controls.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:20

    Toulon runs a puppet theatre in the heart of Paris and meets the sorcerer (the mysterious Afzel). When his life is saved by the lovely Swiss Ambassador's daughter Ilsa, we bear witness to the origin of the Puppet Master.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySpain, USA, Japan
    Duration01:59

    It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that involves influential critic Bevalaqua, theatre star Celimene, young lead actors and other theatre residents

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, western, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:28

    The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, musical, family, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As George struggles to sabotage his mother's new romance, he must deal with his own romantic feelings for Morgan's daughter and the consequences of his meddling as his once great family falls into ruin due to his machinations...

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles's life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidently becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:01

    This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Czarist Russia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Texas writer Horton Foote's touching story set in 1902 features Robert Duvall as Sol, the hardened boss of a sugar plantation who unwittingly becomes a mentor to a young boy named Horace (Lukas Haas), who comes to Sol looking for a way to earn a living. Horace eventually learns, through his associations with Sol, Ben (James Earl Jones) and others, that life, though it isn't always fair or just, is worth rising for every day.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Mexico, United Kingdom, Colombia
    Duration02:18

    In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, family, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    In the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:18

    In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying life circumstances in the untamed west of Montana in the 1920's.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:40

    An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:35

    The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:38

    Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainviews motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA

    Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads towards the mythical Forbidden Islands, the mermaid begins to display its deadly side.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryRussia

    1919 year. Fate confronts the young idealist Osya with the Turkish swindler Ibrahim Bender. And the honest Osya would never have contacted such a shameless and cunning swindler if they had not been united by an incredibly dangerous adventure - a hunt for a royal relic, a precious rod, which local bandits and white officers would also like to get. In a series of dizzying adventures, Osya is forced to learn from Ibrahim charming flattery, delicate deception, captivating blackmail and ... brute force. And all this - being in love with the purest girl in the city! And, it seems, into one more - a fatal foreign beauty. This is how the portrait of the legendary great schemer and favorite of women, Ostap Bender-Zadunaisky, begins to take shape.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, adventure
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:28

    Chander Pahar follows Shankar Choudhury, a 20 year-old that takes a job working for the Uganda Railway, and winds up quitting his job in search of diamonds and the Kenya's Mountain of the Moon. Based on the popular Bengali adventure novel of the same name.




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