King Leopold's Ghost (2006), Tinker Bell (2008), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Two English Girls (1971), Love Among the Ruins (1974), The Chinese Connection (1972), There Will Be Blood (2007), Fanny and Alexander (1982) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1900s movies.
Storyline: Filmmakers Pippa Scott and Oreet Rees document the exploitation of the Congo by Belgium's King Leopold II.
Plot Keywords: tyrant, slave, explorer, historian, soldier, brutal, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young fairy Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) causes chaos in Pixie Hollow when she rejects her predestined occupation as a fixer of broken objects and tries to learn a new trade instead.
Plot Keywords: fairy, queen, friend, rival, charming, lighthearted, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A teacher and three schoolgirls at Appleyard College disappear in 1900.
Plot Keywords: student, young girl, young boy, headmistress, teacher, police officer, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This French film chronicles a decades-long love triangle between Claude (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an art critic, and sisters Ann (Kika Markham) and Muriel (Stacey Tendeter). Claude initially intends to marry Muriel, but after a lengthy separation, he decides to call off the wedding. Ann then visits Claude in Paris to champion her heartbroken sister. Instead, Ann falls for Claude. Over the intervening years, Claude's preference shifts as the three remain embroiled in a complicated relationship.
Plot Keywords: art critic, teacher, sculptor, mother, melodramatic, intense, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott (Katharine Hepburn) has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones (Laurence Olivier) is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.
Plot Keywords: actress, aristocrat, barrister, suitor, ex-lover, amusing, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In turn-of-the-century China, a martial-arts student declares war against the rival fighters who murdered his mentor.
Plot Keywords: martial artist, cousin, mother, crime boss, teacher, thrilling, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The intersecting life stories of Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday in early twentieth century California presents miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview, a driven man who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. He works hard but also takes advantage of those around him at their expense if need be. His business partner/son (H.W.) is, in reality, an "acquired" child whose true biological single-parent father (working on one of Daniel's rigs) died in a workplace accident. Daniel is deeply protective of H.W. if only for what H.W. brings to the partnership. Eli Sunday is one in a pair of twins whose family farm Daniel purchases for the major oil deposit located on it. Eli, a local preacher and a self-proclaimed faith healer, wants the money from the sale of the property to finance his own church. The lives of the two competitive men often clash as Daniel pumps oil off the property and tries to acquire all the surrounding land at bargain prices to be able to build a pipeline to the ...
Plot Keywords: businessperson, landlord, son, preacher, god, twin, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the early twentieth century Sweden. Adolescent siblings Alexander and Fanny Ekdahl lead a relatively joyous and exuberant life with their well-off extended paternal family, led by the family matriarch, their grandmother, Helena Ekdahl. The openness of the family culture is exemplified by Helena's now deceased husband ending up becoming best friends with one of her lovers, a Jewish puppet maker named Isak Jacobi, and their Uncle Gustav Adolf's open liaison with one of the family maids, Maj, who everyone in the family adores, even Gustav Adolf's wife, Alma. Between the siblings, Alexander in particular has inherited the family's love of storytelling, his parents and his grandmother who are actors and who manage their own theater. Things change for Alexander and Fanny when their father, Oscar, dies shortly after Christmas 1907. Although she truly does believe she loves him, the children's mother, Emilie, decides to marry Bishop Edvard Vergérus, who she first met as the officiate at ...
Plot Keywords: brother, sister, mother, bishop, stepfather, sibling, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five daughters. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. When Perchik is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her family and homeland and travel to Siberia to be with her beloved Perchik....
Plot Keywords: father, butcher, daughter, mother, lighthearted, emotional, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A small-time outlaw takes over a town by dispensing his own form of justice and confiscating property for court costs.
Plot Keywords: outlaw, beautiful woman, friend, teacher, singer, murderer, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In prison awaiting execution the next morning, Louis, the 10th Duke of Chalfont, puts down on paper the events that led him to his current situation. His mother has been banished from her family, the D'Ascoynes, after she married Louis' father, who was considered far beneath her. After her death, the D'Ascoynes refused permission for her to be buried in the family crypt. Louis then plots his revenge, and kills all those ahead of him in the succession until he becomes the Duke. Along the way, he becomes involved with the married Sibelia who, when spurned, makes sure he ends up in prison. The day before his execution, Sibelia recants her testimony, saving him not only from the gallows, but also sets him free. Once outside the prison however, he realizes he's forgotten one little thing.
Plot Keywords: murderer, wealthy man, girlfriend, admiral, minister, lady, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa.
Plot Keywords: sailor, revolutionary, soldier, civilian, inspiring, brutal, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1900, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's house in London to the English seaside with her adolescent daughter Anna (Natalie Wood) and their long devoted maid Martha (Edna Best). Despite the rental agent trying to dissuade her, Lucy decides to rent Gull Cottage at Whitecliff-by-the-Sea. She learns firsthand before she makes the decision the rental agent's hesitance is because the cottage is haunted, supposedly by its now deceased former owner, seaman Captain Daniel Gregg (Sir Rex Harrison). After she moves in, she does meet the spirit of Captain Gregg face-to-face. Because she refuses to be scared away by his presence, the two come to an understanding, including that he will not make his presence known to Anna. As time progresses, the two develop a friendship and a bond. Despite his statements to her that she needs to live her life including finding another husband, Daniel seems not to approve of any of the men that enter ...
Plot Keywords: widow, sea captain, daughter, writer, housekeeper, real estate agent, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
Plot Keywords: military officer, lord, soldier, enemy, prisoner of war, somber, south africa ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pompous phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society. His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects. Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond, one that is threatened by aristocratic suitor Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Jeremy Brett).
Plot Keywords: professor, pretty woman, peasant, suitor, amusing, charming, winsome ...
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