Keyword: 1920s

The Tracker

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2002

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Fanatic is a government trooper who is heading an expedition to find an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman. Others in the expedition are the Follower, a greenhorn trooper, the Veteran, and the Tracker.

Agatha

6.3

1979

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December 1926, Agatha Christies husband asks for a divorce. She leaves her car and goes missing 11 days. She books into a hotel as Mrs. Neele. Fiction: A US reporter looks for her and investigates.

Anarchist from Colony

6.1

2017

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Life of a upcoming Korean patriot Park Yeol, who formed the anarchist organization Black Wave during the Japanese colonial period and attempted the assassination of the Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito.

Enid

6.7

2009

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Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents rows before the father deserts the family. While training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers; one of them, Hugh Pollock, takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters, but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny raise them while she, ironically, is bestowing treats on anonymous children who worship her for her stories. She is completely self-absorbed,driving Hugh to drink and then to another woman. Enid uses the children as emotional blackmail to get a divorce on her terms before marrying Kenneth Waters, a weak man similar to her father. After World War Two she is as popular as ever, despite accusations of using a syndicate to pen her books, and she carries on, adored by children who do not know her true nature, for another 20 years before her death in 1968.

Pete Kelly's Blues

6.5

1955

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In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

6.7

1967

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Al Capones Valentines Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago.

The Razor's Edge

7.5

1946

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An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

Temptress Moon

6.9

1996

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Not far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older brother, Zhengda, is addicted as well, and then paralysed and effectively brain-dead. Zhongliang, Zhengdas brother-in-law, is a successful gigolo in Shanghai who seduces older married women and then blackmails them. When Older Master Pang dies, the clan elders make Ruyi take over the role as the head of the household. Zhongliang returns to the Pang family on the death of Old Master Pang, re-encounters Ruyi, and they are secretly attracted to each other. Wanting to seem sophisticated, she succumbs to Zhongliangs attempts to seduce her. But then an emotional maelstrom follows - for the angry, jealous and sexually frustrated sister (Zhengdas wife) is also part of the picture.

Death Defying Acts

5.8

2007

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On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con him.

Widows' Peak

6.6

1994

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In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Hostility escalates between her and an Irish spinster.

Hammett

6.5

1982

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Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.

Becoming Astrid

7.3

2018

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Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous childrens books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.