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1. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
R | 206 min | Crime, Drama, History
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 245,120
2. The Hours (2002)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Romance
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane
Votes: 139,354 | Gross: $41.68M
3. Lolita (1997)
R | 137 min | Drama, Romance
An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella
Votes: 66,832 | Gross: $1.40M
4. The Girl with the Needle (2024)
115 min | Drama
Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her work.
Director: Magnus von Horn | Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Ava Knox Martin
Votes: 124
5. The Lost City of Z (2016)
PG-13 | 141 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland
Votes: 99,753 | Gross: $8.58M
6. Chaplin (1992)
PG-13 | 143 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, John Thaw
Votes: 62,361 | Gross: $9.49M
7. The Awakening (I) (2011)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
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: 68,987
8. The Mummy (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror
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: 30,248
9. The Immigrant (2013)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk
Votes: 33,853 | Gross: $2.01M
10. Fatima (2020)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, War
Three young shepherds in Fátima, Portugal report visions of the Virgin Mary, inspiring believers and angering officials of the Church and the government, who try to force them to recant their story. Based on historical events.
Director: Marco Pontecorvo | Stars: Joaquim de Almeida, Goran Visnjic, Stephanie Gil, Alejandra Howard
Votes: 4,136
11. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Passed | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh
Votes: 6,852
12. Isadora (1968)
M/PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards, John Fraser
Votes: 2,625
13. Three on a Match (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William
Votes: 4,409
14. Black Wall Street Burning (2020)
R | 78 min | Drama
This film is a retelling of the worst act of American terrorism and racism in American History. The Tulsa race massacre of 1921, when mobs of white residents rampaged. attacked, and murdered black residents of the Greenwood District.
Directors: Marcus Brown, Notis Studios | Stars: Dan Belcher, Rhonda Blake, Faith Bloomer, Marcus Brown
Votes: 80 | Gross: $0.04M
15. Marguerite (2015)
R | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. She sings wholeheartedly, but terribly out of tune. Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience acts as if she was the diva she believes she is.
Director: Xavier Giannoli | Stars: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret
Votes: 5,683 | Gross: $0.51M
16. 1921 (2018)
Not Rated | 144 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
A decade after 1920. When Ayush arrives in England to learn music, he is shocked and scared when the manor he is living in becomes haunted by spirits. To exorcise them, he seeks the help of Rose, a woman who can see and speak with them.
Director: Vikram Bhatt | Stars: Zareen Khan, Karan Kundrra, Vikram Bhatt, Angela Krislinzki
Votes: 1,511
17. Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street (2021)
TV-Y | 98 min | Documentary
A documentary celebrating the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, and investigates the 100-year-old race massacre that left an indelible, though hidden stain on American history.
Director: Salima Koroma | Stars: Alicia Odewale, Hannibal Johnson, Kary Stacklebeck, Chief Egunwale Amusan
Votes: 199
18. 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: 2,157 | Gross: $0.13M
19. Bootleggers (1974)
PG | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Details the lives of two feuding families of bootleggers, the Pruitts and the Woodalls, in rural 1920s and 1930s Arkansas.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Paul Koslo, Dennis Fimple, Slim Pickens, Jaclyn Smith
Votes: 184
20. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A portrait of a patron of the arts extraordinaire who transformed a modest fortune and impeccable taste into one of the premiere collections of twentieth century art.
Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland | Stars: Peggy Guggenheim, Jacqueline Bograd Weld, Francine Prose, John Richardson
Votes: 876 | Gross: $0.50M
21. Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre (2021 TV Movie)
Approved | 59 min | Documentary, Crime, History
It will focus on a specific period, from the birth of Black Wall Street to its downfall over the course of two bloody days, and finally the fallout and reconstruction.
Directors: Stanley Nelson, Marco Williams | Stars: Chris Okawa, Michele Mitchell, Melissa Michelle Jones, Greg Robinson
Votes: 234
22. The Joy of Living (1961)
132 min | Comedy
Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
Director: René Clément | Stars: Alain Delon, Barbara Lass, Gino Cervi, Rina Morelli
Votes: 550
23. Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad (2015)
134 min | Drama
In the 80s, Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles Tessier, a young cyclist who was passing at that moment, is seriously... See full summary »
Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Simon Abkarian, Ariane Ascaride, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Syrus Shahidi
Votes: 627
24. These Are the Days (1974)
TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Family
A Hanna-Barbera animated series, the show is set in fictional Elmsville of the early 1900's. The Day family consists of Grandpa Jeff, his widowed daughter Martha and her three children Ben,... See full summary »
Stars: Irene Tedrow, Paul Winchell, Henry Corden, Janet Waldo
Votes: 75
25. Manhatta (1921)
Not Rated | 11 min | Documentary, Short
This groundbreaking silent documentary captures the beauty and majesty of the New York City in its streets, skyscrapers, bridges, rail yards and harbors.
Directors: Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand
Votes: 1,647
26. So This Is Love (1953)
Approved | 101 min | Biography, Music, Musical
Biopic of opera star Grace Moore, who was killed in a plane crash in 1947.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Merv Griffin, Joan Weldon, Walter Abel
Votes: 259
27. Beloved Enemy (1936)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1921, Irish rebels launch an uprising with the aim of creating an Irish republic, independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. One of the rebellion's leaders and a ... See full summary »
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 386
28. 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
29. The Will Rogers Follies (1991 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 144 min | Comedy, Musical
A filmed version of the Broadway musical focusing on the life of Will Rogers.
Director: Walter C. Miller | Stars: Keith Carradine, Dee Hoty, Roxane Barlow, Bonnie Brackney
Votes: 27
30. Assignment Berlin (1982)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
The young Soghomon Tehlirian stands trial in Berlin for his assassination of Talaat Pasha, a former leader of the Young Turks, who in 1915 were responsible for the systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
Director: Hrayr Toukhanian | Stars: Eddie Mekka, Val Avery, Roger Jackson, Michael Carroll
Votes: 97
31. O Hristos xanastavronetai (1975–1976)
Drama
In the hinterland of Asia Minor in the village Lykovrysi 1921. Residents had an old custom, every seven years did the representation of the Passion of Christ and had to choose some of the ... See full summary »
Stars: Giorgos Foundas, Vasilis Tsaglos, Théodore Katsoulis, Giannis Argyris
Votes: 164
32. Nella città perduta di Sarzana (1980 TV Movie)
118 min
Director: Luigi Faccini | Stars: Franco Graziosi, Riccardo Cucciolla, Bruno Corazzari, Bruno Cattaneo
Votes: 10
33. Mein Leben für Irland (1941)
90 min | Drama
"My Life for Ireland" is a Nazi-made anti-British propaganda film about a group of Dublin schoolboys who unwittingly become pawns of the British and seek redemption by avenging their fallen IRA fathers in the Irish War of Independence.
Director: Max W. Kimmich | Stars: Anna Dammann, René Deltgen, Paul Wegener, Werner Hinz
Votes: 79
34. 8 hlav sílenství (2017)
107 min | Animation, Biography, Comedy
Story of the talented Russian poet, Anna Barkova (1906-1976), who spent twenty-two years of her life in the Gulags. She survived thanks to her poems, thanks to hope and her passionate love for a woman named Valentina.
Director: Marta Nováková | Stars: Aneta Langerová, Marie Stípková, Anna Sedlácková, Zuzana Fialová
Votes: 43
35. Lawrence of Arabia: Britain's Great Adventurer (2020 TV Movie)
94 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A group of experts - historians, psychologists, and writers - discuss the life of T.E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia".
Director: Jonathan Jones | Stars: Feras Alkabani, Dick Benson-Gyles, Archie Chapman, Neil Faulkner
Votes: 19
36. Jungle Adventures (1921)
50 min | Documentary
A feature-length documentary on life and conditions in Borneo, as recorded by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson.
Director: Martin E. Johnson | Stars: Martin E. Johnson, Osa Johnson
37. La visita dell'incrociatore italiano Libia a San Francisco, Calif., 6-29 novembre 1921 (1921)
Documentary, Short
A documentary recording the visit of the Italian navy warship Libia to San Francisco.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Ernesto Burtagli, Dorothy Revier
Votes: 17
38. Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten (2021)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History
Deadly assault on the 100th anniversary of the crime in the context of other racial massacres and police killings.
Director: Jonathan Silvers | Stars: Michel Martin, Robert R.A. Turner, DeNeen L. Brown, Betsy Warner
Votes: 84
39. Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy (2021 TV Special)
60 min | News
Stars: Gayle King, Danya Bacchus, Garrett Bland, G.T. Bynum
Votes: 23
40. The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story (2000 TV Movie)
80 min | Documentary
This is a Documentary of the infamous Tulsa Massacre of 1921, locally called "The Tulsa Race Riot." Most of the Black section of town was burned and many Black citizens were murdered by ... See full synopsis »
Director: Michael Wilkerson | Stars: Roscoe Lee Browne, Nell Carter, Bill Cosby, Rocky Frisco
Votes: 40
42. Wedding in Poetic Karjala (1921)
65 min | Documentary
Director: A.O. Väisänen | Stars: Lyyli Home, Benjamin Trofimov, Olga Tarpio, Iivana Bomba
Votes: 43
43. Golod... golod... golod (1921)
Documentary, Short
Directors: Vladimir Gardin, Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Aleksandr Gromov, Nikolay Vishnyak
Votes: 29
44. Saoirse? (1961)
92 min | Documentary, War
Documents the period 1919-1922 in Ireland's history, covering the war of independence against the British and the civil war that followed using archive footage from the time, including original newsreel footage.
Director: George Morrison | Stars: Liam Budhlaeir, Aindreas O'Gallchoir, Padraig O'Raghallaigh
Votes: 16
45. Corazón de España o El triunfo de Granero (1921)
Documentary, Short
Director: Rafael Salvador | Stars: Isidro Amorós, Rafael Gómez 'El Gallo', José Gómez 'Gallito', Manuel Jiménez 'Chicuelo'
47. Im Kampf mit dem Berge - 1. Teil: In Sturm und Eis - Eine Alpensymphonie in Bildern (1921)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Arnold Fanck | Stars: Ilse Rohde, Hannes Schneider
Votes: 62
48. The Heritage of France (1921)
61 min | Documentary, Drama
The life of a happy, close-knit French family from Aisne who must flee the German advance in 1914.
Director: Harry Lachman
Votes: 7
49. Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later (2021)
60 min | Documentary
Home to the successful and historic Black Wall Street, the Greenwood District lost over 300 citizens to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. The tragedy was kept a secret for 75 years. ... See full summary »
Directors: Dave Tamez, Polly Anderson | Stars: Quraysh Ali Lansana, Brenda Nails Alford, Hannibal Johnson, J. Kavin Ross
50. Blandt Syd-Amerikas urskovsindianere (1921)
88 min | Documentary
A documentary following the Swedish ethnographer Dr. Gustaf Bolinder's expedition to South America 1920-21, to register the threatened native cultures.
Director: Ottar Gladvedt