1900s
"1900s" Movies and TV Shows
#1
No Dogs or Italians Allowed
Synopsis:
Early 20th century, in the Ughetto family's home village, Ughettera, Northern Italy. Life in the region had become very difficult and the Ughettos dreamed of a better life abroad. Legend has it that Luigi Ughetto crossed the Alps and started a new life in France, thus changing his beloved family's destiny forever. His grandson retraces their story.
Starring:
Ariane Ascaride,
Alain Ughetto,
Stefano Paganini
Plot:
animal in title,
nationality in title,
voice over,
voice over narration,
1900s,
1910s,
ruin,
italy,
priest,
chestnut
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#2
Wild Strawberries
Synopsis:
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer fo…
Starring:
Ingrid Thulin,
Gertrud Fridh,
Naima Wifstrand
Plot:
professor,
road movie,
nostalgia,
dream,
swedish summer,
strawberry,
aging,
voice over narration,
flashback,
self discovery
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#3
The Last Emperor
Synopsis:
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
Starring:
Joan Chen,
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa,
Peter O'Toole
Plot:
china,
based on true story,
emperor,
1950s,
chinese history,
1930s,
1910s,
flash forward,
symbolism,
childhood
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#4
The Great Train Robbery
Synopsis:
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
Starring:
Gilbert M. Anderson,
John Manus Dougherty Sr.,
Frank Hanaway
Plot:
national film registry,
posse,
horse,
dance,
passenger,
hold up,
bandit,
train station,
dance hall,
escape attempt
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#5
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Synopsis:
In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. On her very first night she meets the ghost of the crusty former owner, Captain Gregg—and refuses to be scared off. They eventually become friends and allies, after Lucy gets used to the idea of a man's ghost haunting her bedroom.
Starring:
George Sanders,
Robert Coote,
Rex Harrison
#6
Peter Pan
Synopsis:
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
Starring:
Jason Isaacs,
Ludivine Sagnier,
Lynn Redgrave
#7
Legends of the Fall
Synopsis:
An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
Starring:
Brad Pitt,
Anthony Hopkins,
Aidan Quinn
#8
Kwaidan
Synopsis:
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior'…
Starring:
Kenjirō Ishiyama,
Michiyo Aratama,
Misako Watanabe
#9
Johnny Got His Gun
Synopsis:
Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed with a fate worse than death as a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories.
Starring:
Donald Sutherland,
Timothy Bottoms,
Jason Robards
#10
Horror Express
Synopsis:
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
Starring:
Julio Peña,
Christopher Lee,
Peter Cushing
Plot:
journey,
train,
monster,
alien possession,
siberia,
lovecraftian,
china,
anthropologist,
missing link,
fossil
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#11
Holes
Synopsis:
Stanley's family is cursed with bad luck. Unfairly sentenced to months of detention at Camp Green Lake, he and his campmates are forced by the warden to dig holes in order to build character. What they don't know is that they are digging holes in order to search for a lost treasure hidden somewhere in the camp.
Starring:
Sigourney Weaver,
Jon Voight,
Tim Blake Nelson
Plot:
19th century,
hole,
camp,
stealing,
digging,
bad luck,
treasure,
shoe,
curse,
boys' dormitory
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#12
Hibernatus
Synopsis:
The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...
Starring:
Martine Kelly,
Claude Piéplu,
Louis de Funès
Plot:
1960s,
literature on screen,
french literature on screen,
european literature on screen,
science fiction literature on screen,
humoristic literature on screen,
20th century literature on screen,
french humoristic literature on screen,
french science fiction literature on screen,
1950s literature on screen
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#13
Gigi
Synopsis:
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.
Starring:
Eva Gabor,
Leslie Caron,
Corinne Marchand
Plot:
1900s,
singing,
paris france,
courtesan,
remake,
character name as title,
parisian,
playboy,
montage,
uncle nephew relationship
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#14
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Synopsis:
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
Starring:
Dick Van Dyke,
Anna Quayle,
Sally Ann Howes
#15
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Synopsis:
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursue…
Starring:
Robert Redford,
Paul Newman,
Katharine Ross
#16
A Trip to the Moon
Synopsis:
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
Starring:
Georges Méliès,
Bleuette Bernon,
Victor André
Plot:
moon,
astronomer,
alien,
satire,
jules verne,
space travel,
based on novel,
monster,
asteroid,
celestial
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#17
Original Sin
Synopsis:
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp
Starring:
Thomas Jane,
Antonio Banderas,
Angelina Jolie
#18
The Wizard of Oz
Synopsis:
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
Starring:
Judy Garland,
Ray Bolger,
Jack Haley
Plot:
witch,
tornado,
evil witch,
wizard,
kansas,
20th century,
lion,
scarecrow,
1900s,
quest
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#19
The Lost City of Z
Synopsis:
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Starring:
Sienna Miller,
Tom Holland,
Angus Macfadyen
Plot:
jungle,
based on true story,
based on book,
explorer,
journey,
raft,
archaeology,
husband wife relationship,
travel,
tribe
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#20
The King's Man
Synopsis:
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
Starring:
Tom Hollander,
Stanley Tucci,
Djimon Hounsou
Plot:
1910s,
third part,
based on comic,
marvel comics,
icon comics,
spy,
sequel,
prequel,
world war one,
london england
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