Topic: 1910s

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Al Pacino · Robert De Niro · Diane Keaton · Robert Duvall

Plot Continuing saga of the Corleone family as they move to Nevada and make the casino business their major income source under the leadership of the increasingly paranoid and malevolent Michael,...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Claire Bloom · Nigel Bruce · Sydney Chaplin

Plot An old clown (Charles Chaplin), after preventing the suicide of a young dancer (Claire Bloom), takes care of her and tries to teach her everything he knows about theater so...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Robert De Niro · Dominique Sanda · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot In 1901, in the north of Italy, the same day Giuseppe Verdi died, the sons of a landlord and a farm worker are born. They will be inseparable friends, although...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Uma Das Gupta · Subir Bannerjee

Plot Tells the story of a Bengali family driven by bad fortune. The father, Harihara, is a secular clerk, healer, dreamer and poet. Sabajaya, the mother, works to feed the family...

Direction Steven Knight · Colm McCarthy · Tim Mielants · Otto Bathurst

Cast Cillian Murphy · Sam Neill · Paul Anderson · Helen McCrory

Plot TV Series (2013-Present). 7 Seasons. A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, Peaky Blinders centres on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Burt Lancaster · Karl Malden · Neville Brand · Thelma Ritter

Plot Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster), a murderer sentenced to Alcatraz, cures a sick bird that flies into his cell and eventually becomes a world-renowned ornithologist -- all while serving a life...

Direction Bill Bain · Christopher Hodson · Raymond Menmuir · Derek Bennett

Cast Gordon Jackson · David Langton · Jean Marsh · Angela Baddeley

Plot TV Series (1971-1975). 5 Seasons. 68 Episodes. The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the...

Direction David Lean

Cast Sarah Miles · Robert Mitchum · Christopher Jones · Trevor Howard

Plot Set during the Irish Rebellion of 1916, it tells the story of Charles Shaughnessy (Robert Mitchum), a kind and gentle widower, who falls in love with and marries the much...

Direction Julian Fellowes · Brian Percival · David Evans · Philip John

Cast Hugh Bonneville · Michelle Dockery · Maggie Smith · Elizabeth McGovern

Plot TV Series (2010-2015). 6 Seasons. 52 Episodes. Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for...

Direction Bille August

Cast Pernilla August · Samuel Froler · Max von Sydow · Ghita Nørby

Plot It is based on the story of Bergman's parents, Erik and Karin (whose fictional names are Henrik and Anna). Henrik, a humble theology student, meets Anna, a girl from a...

Direction Grigori Aronov · Aleksey German

Cast Andrei Popov · Aleksandr Anisimov · Georgiy Shtil · Petr Cernov

Plot The film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Andrei Popov) was a lawyer in the Tzar's Army and a...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast James Dean · Raymond Massey · Julie Harris · Richard Davalos

Plot In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam....

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast James Cagney · Jean Harlow · Edward Woods · Joan Blondell

Plot A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.

Direction George Cukor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Rex Harrison · Stanley Holloway · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Plot Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Gérard Philipe · Lilli Palmer · Anouk Aimée · Lila Kedrova

Plot Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family....

Direction Bille August

Cast Samuel Froler · Pernilla August · Max von Sydow · Ghita Nørby

Plot The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding...

Direction George Butler

Plot A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton 's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members, plus...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Oskar Werner · Henri Serre · Marie Dubois

Plot From the time of their meeting in 1912, two men, Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre), share a close friendship. Shortly before the First World War, Jules marries Catherine...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Björn Andrésen · Silvana Mangano · Marisa Berenson

Plot In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, a few years before the outbreak of the Great War, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Claude Rains · Gloria Dickson · Edward Norris · Otto Kruger

Plot A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his...