1920s
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    Easy Virtue (2009)

    A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she...

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    The Aviator (2004)

    During the 1930s and '40s, wealthy industrialist Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) gains fame as a...

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    He Who Must Die (1957)

    Three townspeople cause an uproar when they try to help refugees on a Greek island occupied by...

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    The Godfather, Part II (1974)

    Michael Corleone rules his father's criminal empire, while flashbacks recall young Vito's climb to...

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    Chicago (2002)

    A lawyer (Richard Gere) handles the cases of two murderous women (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée...

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    The Newton Boys (1998)

    Seeking an escape from poverty, sibling Texas farmers (Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan...

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    Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

    A nursing-home resident (Jessica Tandy) regales a visitor (Kathy Bates) with tales of the close...

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    The Carpetbaggers (1964)

    Based on the novel by Harold Robbins. A rich young executive becomes involved in many romantic...

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    Leatherheads (2008)

    A 1920s football star (George Clooney) tries to give his sagging sport a boost, while he and a new...

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    The Princess and the Frog (November 25, 2009)

    A fairy tale centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans' French Quarter...

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    The Roaring Twenties (1939)

    Three World War I buddies return to New York, where two (James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart) become...

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    Splendor in the Grass (1961)

    In 1925 Kansas, a teenage girl suffers an emotional breakdown following a platonic love affair....

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    Zelig (1983)

    Compulsive conformist Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen) is everywhere in newsreels as the ``chameleon...

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    Mr. North (1988)

    Thornton Wilder's Ivy League hero, Theophilus North (Anthony Edwards), caters to the rich in 1920s...

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    The Luzhin Defence (2001)

    To the dismay of her mother (Geraldine James), an independent aristocrat (Emily Watson) falls in...

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    Antonieta

    A French author travels to Mexico to research the life of Antonieta Rivas Mecade, a liberal...

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    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

    Based on the play by William Inge. An Oklahoma family in the 1920s struggles with the problems of...

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    Sweet Land (2006)

    A German mail-order bride in 1920s Minnesota encounters suspicion and scorn when she arrives to...

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    The Wrath of God

    A 1920s Latin American colonel wants a bootlegger, an Irishman and an ex-priest (Robert Mitchum) to...

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    Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973)

    Former World War I ace Eli (Cliff Robertson) and son Rodger (Eric Shea) barnstorm through 1920s...

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    Al Sur de Granada

    Gerald, a young Englishman and aspiring writer, moves to a small Spanish town to get away from the...

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    The Last September (2000)

    In a 1920s English country home, a couple's (Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon) niece finds romance with...

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    Heat and Dust (1983)

    Half a century after her great aunt abandoned her diplomat husband for a disreputable Indian ruler,...

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    Studs Lonigan (1960)

    A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.

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    Isadora (1968)

    A fact-based account depicts the career and turbulent personal life of Isadora Duncan (Vanessa...

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    Machine Gun Blues (1996)

    Set in 1920s Harlem--a magnet for black entertainers, thrill-seeking white patrons and...

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    Matewan (1987)

    A fact-based account of the conflicts between a growing coal miners' union and mining bosses in 1920...

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    Hurricane (1979)

    A Navy captain's (Jason Robards) daughter (Mia Farrow) flirts with an ensign and a well-heeled...

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    The Sun Also Rises (1957)

    Hemingway's journalist Jake Barnes (Tyrone Power) leaves 1920s Paris for Spain with Lady Brett (Ava...

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    The Serpent's Egg (1978)

    A Jewish-American trapeze artist (David Carradine) and his sister-in-law (Liv Ullmann) enter a...