Movies Set in the 1920s
Kinora's catalogue lists 56 films set in the 1920s, spanning 1927–2023. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 1976
1900
Ruraldir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 1992
A River Runs Through It
Ruraldir. Robert Redford - 1997
Anastasia
Urbandir. Don Bluth - 1956
Aparajito
Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 2022
Babylon
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 1994
Bullets Over Broadway
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 2008
Changeling
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 1981
Chariots of Fire
Urbandir. Hugh Hudson - 1941
Citizen Kane
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 1931
City Lights
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 1965
Doctor Zhivago
Urban · Ruraldir. David Lean - 1988
Eight Men Out
Urbandir. John Sayles - 1993
Farewell My Concubine
Urbandir. Chen Kaige - 1991
Fried Green Tomatoes
Ruraldir. Jon Avnet - 1982
Gandhi
Urban · Ruraldir. Richard Attenborough - 1956
Giant
Ruraldir. George Stevens - 1960
Inherit the Wind
Ruraldir. Stanley Kramer - 1986
Jean de Florette
Rural · Mountaindir. Claude Berri - 1962
Jules and Jim
Urbandir. François Truffaut - 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
Ruraldir. Martin Scorsese - 1994
Legends of the Fall
Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Edward Zwick - 2011
Midnight in Paris
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 2002
Millennium Actress
Urbandir. Satoshi Kon - 1990
Miller's Crossing
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1984
Once Upon a Time in America
Urbandir. Sergio Leone - 1955
Ordet
Ruraldir. Carl Theodor Dreyer - 1985
Out of Africa
Rural · Wildernessdir. Sydney Pollack - 1992
Porco Rosso
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1991
Raise the Red Lantern
Urbandir. Zhang Yimou - 1981
Reds
Urbandir. Warren Beatty - 2022
RRR
Urban · Wildernessdir. S. S. Rajamouli - 1952
Singin' in the Rain
Urbandir. Gene Kelly - 1959
Some Like It Hot
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Billy Wilder - 1961
Splendor in the Grass
Ruraldir. Elia Kazan - 1927
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Rural · Coastal Seadir. F. W. Murnau - 2011
The Artist
Urbandir. Michel Hazanavicius - 2022
The Banshees of Inisherin
Island · Ruraldir. Martin McDonagh - 1985
The Color Purple
Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 1974
The Front Page
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 1974
The Godfather Part II
Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 2013
The Immigrant
Urbandir. James Gray - 2010
The King's Speech
Urbandir. Tom Hooper - 1987
The Last Emperor
Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 1998
The Legend of 1900
Coastal Seadir. Giuseppe Tornatore - 1999
The Mummy
Desert · Urbandir. Stephen Sommers - 1984
The Natural
Urbandir. Barry Levinson - 1998
The Newton Boys
Ruraldir. Richard Linklater - 2021
The Power of the Dog
Ruraldir. Jane Campion - 1952
The Quiet Man
Ruraldir. John Ford - 1946
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Urbandir. Lewis Milestone - 1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Mountain · Wildernessdir. John Huston - 2013
The Wind Rises
Urban · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2006
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Rural · Mountaindir. Ken Loach - 2007
There Will Be Blood
Ruraldir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1970
Tristana
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 1983
Zelig
Urbandir. Woody Allen
Frequently asked
How many movies are set in the 1920s?
Kinora's catalogue lists 56 films set in the 1920s, spanning 1927–2023.
What are some movies set in the 1920s?
Films set in the 1920s in our catalogue include 1900 (1976), A River Runs Through It (1992), Anastasia (1997), Aparajito (1956), and Babylon (2022).
What is the oldest movie set in the 1920s?
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is the earliest film set in the 1920s in our catalogue; the most recent is Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).