Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "year-1920"

1. When Calls the Heart (2014– )

TV-G | 43 min | Drama, History, Romance

Elizabeth Thatcher, a young schoolteacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.

Stars: Erin Krakow, Pascale Hutton, Jack Wagner, Martin Cummins

Votes: 14,941

2. RRR (2022)

Not Rated | 187 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A fearless warrior on a perilous mission comes face to face with a steely cop serving British forces in this epic saga set in pre-independent India.

Director: S.S. Rajamouli | Stars: N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt

Votes: 167,332 | Gross: $14.50M

3. Chariots of Fire (1981)

PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

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: 65,906 | Gross: $58.97M

4. The Skeleton Key (2005)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, Gena Rowlands

Votes: 123,018 | Gross: $47.81M

5. The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)

Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, War

Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald

Votes: 54,635 | Gross: $1.83M

6. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)

PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama

The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.

Director: Matt Brown | Stars: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi

Votes: 62,154 | Gross: $3.87M

7. Reds (1981)

PG | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski

Votes: 24,721 | Gross: $40.38M

8. Kon-Tiki (2012)

PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd-Magnus Williamson

Votes: 51,976 | Gross: $1.52M

9. A Very Long Engagement (2004)

R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster, Dominique Pinon

Votes: 75,957 | Gross: $6.17M

10. The Public Enemy (1931)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell

Votes: 23,024 | Gross: $1.01M

11. Red Joan (2018)

R | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.

Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes

Votes: 14,424 | Gross: $1.58M

12. Song of the Bandits (2023– )

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

The Koreans who gathered in Gando, Manchuria, for their own reasons and band together to protect their homes during 1910-45 Japanese colonial rule.

Stars: Kim Nam-gil, Seohyun, Yoo Jae-myung, Lee Hyun-wook

Votes: 2,375

13. The Lodgers (2017)

R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A family curse confines orphaned twins Rachel and Edwards to their home, in punishment for their ancestors' sins. Bound to the rules of a haunting childhood lullaby, the twins must never let any outsiders inside the house.

Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon, David Bradley

Votes: 9,651

14. A Month in the Country (1987)

PG | 96 min | Drama

Two soldiers (Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh) recover from World War I while spending a summer in a Yorkshire village.

Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, John Atkinson, Jim Carter

Votes: 1,957 | Gross: $0.44M

15. Father & Soldier (2022)

98 min | Action, Drama, History

During World War I, a father enlists himself in the French Army in order to be with his 17-year-old son who was recruited against his will. Sent to the front, they find themselves facing the war together in the French colony of Senegal.

Director: Mathieu Vadepied | Stars: Omar Sy, Alassane Diong, Jonas Bloquet, Bamar Kane

Votes: 1,361

16. See You Up There (2017)

TV-MA | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In November 1919, two soldiers--a disfigured but brilliant artist and an ex-accountant--start a memorial con. But in Roaring Twenties France, their adventures soon turn dangerous.

Director: Albert Dupontel | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte, Niels Arestrup

Votes: 10,981

17. Dracula: The Original Living Vampire (2022)

Unrated | 86 min | Horror, Thriller

Amelia Van Helsing is on the desperate hunt for the killer responsible for a string of grisly murders targeting young women. Her prime suspect: the mysterious Count Dracula.

Director: Maximilian Elfeldt | Stars: Jake Herbert, Christine Prouty, India Lillie Davies, Ryan Woodcock

Votes: 565

18. Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)

GP | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In 1920s Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are scrutinized for their anarchist beliefs while on trial for robbery and murder.

Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Rosanna Fratello

Votes: 3,729 | Gross: $0.19M

19. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, George Cukor | Stars: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo

Votes: 4,807

20. 1920 (2008)

Unrated | 143 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance

After forsaking his family and religion, a husband finds his wife is demoniacally possessed.

Directors: Uday Inamati, Vikram Bhatt | Stars: Rakhi Sawant, Bob Brahmbhatt, Rajneesh Duggal, Adah Sharma

Votes: 4,071

21. Mata Hari (1985)

R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller, War

Mata Hari is a beautiful dancer of Dutch origin working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as part of a show.

Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias, Gaye Brown

Votes: 1,098

22. Malefique (2002)

Not Rated | 90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Four prisoners find an ancient diary in the wall of their cell which might be the key to getting out.

Director: Eric Valette | Stars: Gérald Laroche, Philippe Laudenbach, Clovis Cornillac, Dimitri Rataud

Votes: 4,534

23. El Señor de la Querencia (2008)

30 min | Drama, Thriller

An evil and deranged farmer, perversely controls his land and the people who live there during the 1920s.

Stars: Julio Milostich, Sigrid Alegría, Álvaro Rudolphy, Patricia López

Votes: 162

24. The Mummy's Shroud (1967)

Approved | 90 min | Horror

In 1920 an archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian child prince. Returning home with their discovery, the expedition members soon find themselves being killed ... See full summary »

Director: John Gilling | Stars: André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Elizabeth Sellars

Votes: 2,366

25. La casa delle donne (2003)

98 min | Drama

After Rocco marries, he gets his sister-in-law pregnant. Then his maid. They and their children and grandchildren all live in a house together. Further complications ensue.

Directors: Domenico Mongelli, Mimmo Mongelli | Stars: Vito Bruno, Stefania Caito, Ilaria Cangialosi, Francesco Capotorto

Votes: 33

26. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)

120 min | Documentary, History

The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.

Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Frank Barrett

Votes: 2,153 | Gross: $0.13M

27. The Last September (1999)

R | 103 min | Drama, History, Romance

In the heart of a young woman, lies a secret that divides a nation.

Director: Deborah Warner | Stars: Michael Gambon, Tom Hickey, Keeley Hawes, David Tennant

Votes: 947 | Gross: $0.47M

28. 1920 London (2016)

120 min | Horror, Mystery

After her husband is possessed by an evil spirit, a woman turns to her former lover to perform an exorcism.

Director: Tinu Suresh Desai | Stars: Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra, Vishal Karwal, Surendra Pal

Votes: 1,976

29. Battle of Warsaw 1920 (2011)

115 min | Drama, History, Romance

Different strata of Polish society oppose communist aggression from Soviet Russia. Love lives on a par with war.

Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Natasza Urbanska, Borys Szyc, Jerzy Bonczak

Votes: 2,096

30. Life and Nothing But (1989)

PG | 135 min | Drama, War

Intense character study of men and women driven by an overpowering obsession with the past.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier

Votes: 2,122 | Gross: $0.43M

31. The Dawning (1988)

PG | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

An I.R.A. gunman (Sir Anthony Hopkins) on the run from the government. He meets up with an idealistic young woman (Rebecca Pidgeon) and attempts to win her support for his cause.

Director: Robert Knights | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard

Votes: 416

32. Lazybones (1925)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Buck Jones, Madge Bellamy, Virginia Marshall, Edythe Chapman

Votes: 574

33. Ambush at Dark Canyon (2012)

R | 90 min | Drama, Western

U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery. After discovering that his partner is planning to kill his wife, he must escape prison in time to save his wife and clear his name.

Director: Dustin Rikert | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Sydney Penny, Courtney Gains, Andrew W. Walker

Votes: 517

34. Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern (2017)

Not Rated | 97 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Adapted from Waki Yamato's popular manga, Haikara-San is a heartfelt, and sometimes comical, tale of love surviving through the perils of war and separation.

Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi | Stars: Robbie Daymond, Saori Hayami, Rachelle Heger, Unshô Ishizuka

Votes: 219

35. Storm Over Asia (1928)

74 min | Drama, War

After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: I. Inkizhinov, I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov

Votes: 2,310

36. 1920: Evil Returns (2012)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A famous poet, Jaidev, meets a woman who has lost her memories. He brings her to his house and tries to help her, but things take an ugly turn when she gets possessed by an evil spirit.

Director: Bhushan Patel | Stars: Aftab Shivdasani, Tia Bajpai, Sharad Kelkar, Vidya Malvade

Votes: 2,245

37. The Key (1934)

Approved | 71 min | Drama

British officer is assigned to duty in Ireland and gets embroiled in Anglo-Irish battles and old girl friend who is now married to an Irishman. Powell learns more than he wanted to know about "the Irish Problem."

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: William Powell, Edna Best, Colin Clive, Hobart Cavanaugh

Votes: 554

38. La maison assassinée (1988)

110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one ... See full summary »

Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Agnès Blanchot, Ingrid Held

Votes: 645

39. They Were Sisters (1945)

115 min | Drama

The story of three sisters and the men they marry. One is happily married but childless; the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage; the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.

Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair, Anne Crawford

Votes: 338

40. Einstein's God Model (2016)

89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

String theory and the afterlife collide as researcher Brayden Taylor embarks on a quest to contact another dimension. An "American Doctor Who", this underground sci-fi film is the first of a series of adventures based on real science.

Director: Philip T. Johnson | Stars: Aaron Graham, Kirby O'Connell, Kenneth Hughes, Brad Norman

Votes: 2,900

41. Milena (1990)

139 min | Biography, Drama

Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with ... See full summary »

Director: Véra Belmont | Stars: Valérie Kaprisky, Stacy Keach, Gudrun Landgrebe, Nick Mancuso

Votes: 102

42. Burning Daylight (2010)

TV-MA | 102 min | Crime

Three Wall Street bankers, a pair of crooks, and a millionaire are betrayed, manipulated and exploited by the efforts of a ruthless woman.

Director: Sanzhar Sultan | Stars: Robert Knepper, Paul Calderon, Adrian Cowan, Sanzhar Sultan

Votes: 260

43. Bildmakarna (2000 TV Movie)

99 min | Drama

The meeting between Victor Sjöström, Swedish film director of the silent era and Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Victor is adapting one of the books of the writer.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Anita Björk, Elin Klinga, Lennart Hjulström, Carl Magnus Dellow

Votes: 362

44. Wage (2017)

125 min | Biography, Drama, History

Wage is a biopic movie about the creator of the national anthem of Indonesia titled Indonesia Raya (The Great Indonesia), Wage Rudolf Soepratman.

Directors: John de Rantau, Azuzan Juan Gontarella | Stars: Khoirul Ilyas Aryatmaja, Putri Ayudya, Herman Bennink, Banon Gautama

Votes: 60

45. Abbey of Thelema (2007)

80 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Based on actual facts and events, explores the Thelemic Commune in Cefalu, Sicily from 1920-1923.

Directors: J. Grimm, Vincent Jennings | Stars: Mike Ketcher, Lynn Mastio Rice, Blandine Fromont, Brenda Sue Fowler

Votes: 99

46. Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)

73 min | Drama, History

Three unconnected episodes united by a common theme: the establishment of the Soviet rule in Russia during the civil war of the early 1920s. Depicts dramatic events in simple lives of peasants and soldiers.

Directors: Genrikh Gabay, Larisa Shepitko, Andrey Smirnov | Stars: Leonid Kulagin, Sergei Volf, Georgiy Burkov, Nikolay Gubenko

Votes: 272

47. Au grand balcon (1949)

97 min | Adventure, Drama

'The Grand Balcon' is a family guesthouse where the inhabitants have the same passion for adventure. All these future pilots made the glory of Aerospostale (a pioneering aviation company which operated from 1918 to 1933).

Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Georges Marchal, Félix Oudart, Janine Crispin

Votes: 86

48. Hlidac c.47 (2008)

108 min | Drama, Thriller

A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.

Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Karel Roden, Lucia Siposová, Václav Jirácek, Vladimír Dlouhý

Votes: 295

49. Dünürcülük (2017)

90 min | Drama, History

The film will show the incredible love story of two young people, through the prism of confrontation between the two families. This film tells about the lifestyles of the original and ... See full summary »

Director: Ivan Patraman | Stars: Hristofor Avramoglu, Valentina Gümüslü, Ilyas Haci, Mihail Konstantinov

50. Forbidden Fruit (1921)

87 min | Drama

Mary Maddock becomes a seamstress after her husband Steve wastes their money on booze. Her employer provides her as an escort to accompany millionaire Mallory. Her husband tries ... See full summary »

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Agnes Ayres, Clarence Burton, Theodore Roberts, Kathlyn Williams

Votes: 194