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1. Peaky Blinders (2013–2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama

8.8
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A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Helen McCrory

Votes: 649,833

2. The Green Mile (1999)

R | 189 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

8.6
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61 Metascore

A tale set on death row, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the lead guard, Paul Edgecombe, recognizes John's gift, he tries to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt

Votes: 1,407,496 | Gross: $136.80M

3. Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama

8.6
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An Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law by conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era.

Stars: Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham

Votes: 203,145

4. King Kong (2005)

PG-13 | 187 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

7.2
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81 Metascore

A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann

Votes: 446,922 | Gross: $218.08M

5. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure

8.4
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86 Metascore

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies

Votes: 1,036,916 | Gross: $248.16M

6. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

PG-13 | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.5
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52 Metascore

When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench

Votes: 296,585 | Gross: $102.83M

7. All Creatures Great and Small (2020– )

TV-PG | Comedy, Drama

8.6
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The numerous adventures of a countryside veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire, England.

Stars: Anna Madeley, Samuel West, Nicholas Ralph, Rachel Shenton

Votes: 16,856

8. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

8.1
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92 Metascore

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 349,857

9. Badehotellet (2013– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Drama

8.0
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The seaside hotel "Badehotellet" in NW Denmark opens for its wealthy guests each summer. We follow the guests and staff at the hotel from 1928 and into the 1940s.

Stars: Amalie Dollerup, Lars Ranthe, Anne Louise Hassing, Jens Jacob Tychsen

Votes: 3,929

10. The Durrells (2016–2019)

TV-PG | 46 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

8.2
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Louisa Durrell raises her four children single-handedly after her husband's death. Following a financial crisis, the family moves to the Greek island of Corfu and tries to adapt to life there.

Stars: Keeley Hawes, Josh O'Connor, Milo Parker, Daisy Waterstone

Votes: 14,190

11. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure

8.2
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65 Metascore

In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 810,995 | Gross: $197.17M

12. Babylon Berlin (2017– )

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

8.4
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Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Lars Eidinger, Fritzi Haberlandt

Votes: 29,967

13. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

6.1
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64 Metascore

After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.

Director: Kerry Conran | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi

Votes: 87,469 | Gross: $37.76M

14. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

8.6
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89 Metascore

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 499,152

15. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure

7.5
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57 Metascore

In 1935, Indiana Jones is tasked by Indian villagers with reclaiming a rock stolen from them by a secret cult beneath the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri

Votes: 535,306 | Gross: $179.87M

16. The King's Speech (2010)

R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History

8.0
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88 Metascore

The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 707,964 | Gross: $138.80M

17. Perry Mason (2020–2023)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History

7.6
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In booming 1932 Los Angeles, a down-and-out defense attorney takes on the case of a lifetime.

Stars: Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham

Votes: 28,782

18. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

PG | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.2
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63 Metascore

In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery

Votes: 69,144 | Gross: $0.07M

19. The Rocketeer (1991)

PG | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Family

6.6
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58 Metascore

A young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high-flying masked hero.

Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton

Votes: 61,765 | Gross: $46.70M

20. All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990)

TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy, Drama

8.4
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The trials and misadventures of the staff of a country veterinary office in Yorkshire from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Stars: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham

Votes: 4,400

21. And Then There Were None (2015)

TV-14 | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.8
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Ten strangers are invited to an island by a mysterious host, and start to get killed one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Stars: Maeve Dermody, Charles Dance, Toby Stephens, Burn Gorman

Votes: 43,855

22. Chariots of Fire (1981)

PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

7.1
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78 Metascore

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers

Votes: 65,894 | Gross: $58.97M

23. Hotel Portofino (2022– )

TV-14 | 54 min | Drama

6.8
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A glamorous period drama about an English hotel in 1920s Italy, when Benito Mussolini's brand of fascism was on the rise.

Stars: Natascha McElhone, Oliver Dench, Louisa Binder, Mark Umbers

Votes: 2,871

24. Woman in Gold (2015)

PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, History

7.3
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51 Metascore

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

Director: Simon Curtis | Stars: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes

Votes: 63,220 | Gross: $33.31M

25. Miller's Crossing (1990)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.7
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66 Metascore

Tom Reagan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden

Votes: 142,147 | Gross: $5.08M

26. Carnivàle (2003–2005)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

8.4
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During the Great Depression, an Oklahoma farm boy and a charismatic minister learn that they are key players in a proxy war being fought between Heaven and Hell.

Stars: Michael J. Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, Debra Christofferson

Votes: 46,862

27. The Pursuit of Love (2021)

60 min | Drama, Romance

6.7
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Set in Europe before World War II, the story follows the adventures of charismatic, fearless Linda Radlett and her best friend/cousin Fanny Logan. Consumed by a desire for love and marriage, each seeks out the ideal husband.

Stars: Lily James, Emily Beecham, Dominic West, Emily Mortimer

Votes: 5,384

28. Mildred Pierce (2011)

TV-MA | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.6
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Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her ambitious elder daughter, Veda.

Stars: Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood, Brían F. O'Byrne

Votes: 24,097

29. The Phantom (1996)

PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

5.1
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53 Metascore

The Phantom, descendent of a line of African superheroes, travels to New York City to thwart a wealthy criminal genius from obtaining three magic skulls which would give him the secret to ultimate power.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Votes: 35,817 | Gross: $17.30M

30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

8.2
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98 Metascore

Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett

Votes: 132,425 | Gross: $5.01M

31. Upstairs Downstairs (2010–2012)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama

7.4
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A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936.

Stars: Keeley Hawes, Ed Stoppard, Adrian Scarborough, Neil Jackson

Votes: 6,819

32. Brideshead Revisited (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance

8.6
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The life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.

Stars: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Roger Milner, Phoebe Nicholls

Votes: 8,038

33. Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

6.1
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When a grisly murder shocks Los Angeles in 1938, Detective Tiago Vega and his partner Lewis Michener become embroiled in an epic story that reflects the troubled history of the city.

Stars: Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Kerry Bishé, Adriana Barraza

Votes: 10,660

34. The House of Eliott (1991–1994)

50 min | Drama

8.1
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Two sisters in 1920s London work to achieve success in the dressmaking business.

Stars: Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard, Aden Gillett, Cathy Murphy

Votes: 1,637

35. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller

7.7
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98 Metascore

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty

Votes: 57,159

36. Mr. Jones (2019)

119 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

6.9
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68 Metascore

A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle

Votes: 16,247

37. The Last Tycoon (2016–2017)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama

7.6
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Centers on Hollywood's first wunderkind studio executive in the 1930s, Monroe Stahr, and the power struggle between him, his mentor, and current head of the studio, Pat Brady.

Stars: Matt Bomer, Kelsey Grammer, Lily Collins, Dominique McElligott

Votes: 5,643

38. The Village (2013–2014)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama

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Follows the residents of one English village across the 20th century and their turbulent lives.

Stars: David Ryall, Maxine Peake, John Simm, Charlie Murphy

Votes: 2,727

39. A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (2012–2013)

TV-MA | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, History

7.8
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In the early 20th century, a young doctor arrives in a small Russian village around the time of the Russian Revolution to work in the local hospital.

Stars: Jon Hamm, Daniel Radcliffe, Rosie Cavaliero, Adam Godley

Votes: 16,548

40. Black Sun (2017– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

8.9
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A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1920s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

Stars: Andrija Kuzmanovic, Marija Bergam, Dragan Bjelogrlic, Jovana Stojiljkovic

Votes: 12,422

41. Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017–2021)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.8
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The series follows Frankie Drake, a female private detective operating in Toronto in the 1920s.

Stars: Lauren Lee Smith, Chantel Riley, Rebecca Liddiard, Sharron Matthews

Votes: 3,181

42. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

PG | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

7.4
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80 Metascore

In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Kenneth Branagh, Laura Monaghan

Votes: 30,257 | Gross: $6.17M

43. The Mummy (1932)

Approved | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror

7.0
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A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.

Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron

Votes: 30,133

44. The Awakening (I) (2011)

R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

6.4
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53 Metascore

In 1921, England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Everything she believes unravels as the 'missing' begin to show themselves.

Director: Nick Murphy | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu

Votes: 68,904

45. Triumph of the Will (1935)

Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History

7.1
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The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.

Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Max Amann, Martin Bormann

Votes: 18,321

46. Blithe Spirit (2020)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

5.4
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26 Metascore

A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer's block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.

Director: Edward Hall | Stars: Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Michele Dotrice

Votes: 8,558

47. Captain America (1990)

PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

3.2
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Frozen in the ice for decades, Captain America is freed to battle against archcriminal The Red Skull.

Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin

Votes: 15,126 | Gross: $0.01M

48. The Time in Between (2013–2014)

853 min | Adventure, Drama, History

8.3
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The life of Sira, a dressmaker consumed by the love of a man, left the turmoil of Madrid prior to the Civil War at Tangier, where she inadvertently becomes part of an espionage scheme.

Stars: Adriana Ugarte, Mari Carmen Sánchez, Tristán Ulloa, Francesc Garrido

Votes: 4,657

49. Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015–2017)

TV-14 | 27 min | Biography, Drama, History

7.0
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The story of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, a brilliant and beautiful Southern belle who became the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age.

Stars: Christina Ricci, David Hoflin, Kristine Nielsen, David Strathairn

Votes: 4,746

50. Appointment with Death (1988)

PG | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.1
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When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud

Votes: 6,046 | Gross: $0.96M



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