Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "1900s"

51. The Vanishing (II) (2018)

R | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles obtain a mysterious trunk, leading to their mysterious disappearance.

Director: Kristoffer Nyholm | Stars: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Emma King, Gary Lewis

Votes: 20,774

52. Fitzcarraldo (1982)

PG | 158 min | Adventure, Drama

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes

Votes: 38,741

53. Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama

The lives and fortunes of the Bellamy family and their below-stairs servant staff at 165 Eaton Place play out against the social, political and historical backdrop of Edwardian London from 1903 to 1930.

Stars: Gordon Jackson, David Langton, Jean Marsh, Angela Baddeley

Votes: 3,582

54. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.

Director: Will Sharpe | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones

Votes: 20,565

55. The Shootist (1976)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart

Votes: 26,925

56. Avonlea (1990–1998)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A young girl is sent to live with her late mother's relatives in Prince Edward Island. Set in the early 1900's, the series follows her adventures, as well as that of her family and the town's people as she grows up in Avonlea.

Stars: Zachary Bennett, Lally Cadeau, Mag Ruffman, Cedric Smith

Votes: 4,869

57. Gran Hotel (2011–2013)

TV-14 | 3,098 min | Crime, Drama, History

A family-owned hotel in the fictional coastal Spanish town of Cantaloa in 1905: love, blackmail, jealousies, crime, comedy, and plots and counter-plots all involving the hotel's owners, guests, detectives, and residential employees.

Stars: Adriana Ozores, Amaia Salamanca, Yon González, Eloy Azorín

Votes: 11,228

58. Wild Strawberries (1957)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand

Votes: 115,283

59. Hatfields & McCoys (2012)

TV-14 | 97 min | Drama, History, Romance

Dramatization of the bitter blood feud between the two families on the West Virginia/Kentucky border in the years after the Civil War.

Stars: Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Matt Barr, Tom Berenger

Votes: 29,396

60. Yentl (1983)

PG | 133 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

Director: Barbra Streisand | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin, Nehemiah Persoff

Votes: 15,942 | Gross: $40.22M

61. The Forsyte Saga (2002–2003)

TV-PG | 276 min | Drama, History, Romance

Chronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920.

Stars: Damian Lewis, Rupert Graves, Gina McKee, Amanda Root

Votes: 6,569

62. Find Me in Paris (2018–2020)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A young ballet dancer from 1905 is transported into the 21st century with the power of a magical necklace. While her boyfriend looks for a way to bring her back, she must find a way to fit in and dodge the sinister time agents.

Stars: Eubha Akilade, Jessica Lord, Castle Rock, Christy O'Donnell

Votes: 1,257

63. Lady and the Tramp (2019)

PG | 111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.

Director: Charlie Bean | Stars: Tessa Thompson, Justin Theroux, Sam Elliott, Ashley Jensen

Votes: 24,583

64. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

R | 188 min | Drama

Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt

Votes: 67,595 | Gross: $4.97M

65. Golden Kamuy (2024)

127 min | Action, Adventure, History

In the early 20th century in Hokkaido, Japan, a treasure hunt between various parties takes place for a hidden stash of gold.

Director: Shigeaki Kubo | Stars: Kento Yamazaki, Anna Yamada, Yûma Yamoto, Gordon Maeda

Votes: 791

66. Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

R | 111 min | Drama, War

During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.

Director: Dalton Trumbo | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards

Votes: 18,399 | Gross: $0.55M

67. Holmes & Watson (2018)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A humorous take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.

Director: Etan Cohen | Stars: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Ralph Fiennes, Rebecca Hall

Votes: 39,469 | Gross: $30.57M

68. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

PG | 143 min | Adventure, Drama

A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm

Votes: 21,307 | Gross: $45.90M

69. Golden Kamuy (2018– )

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

In the early 20th century in Hokkaido, Japan, a treasure hunt between various parties takes place for a hidden stash of gold.

Stars: Chikahiro Kobayashi, Haruka Shiraishi, Fumihiko Tachiki, Kentarô Itô

Votes: 2,539

70. Colette (I) (2018)

R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

Director: Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh

Votes: 26,480 | Gross: $5.14M

71. Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

R | 139 min | Drama, Romance

Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Gina Bernard Forbes

Votes: 24,151 | Gross: $4.61M

72. Ragtime (1981)

PG | 155 min | Drama

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Brad Dourif

Votes: 10,579 | Gross: $21.02M

73. The Road to Wellville (1994)

R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama

A story about the ins and outs of one unusual health facility in the early twentieth century, run by the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack

Votes: 13,256 | Gross: $6.51M

74. Against the Ice (2022)

TV-MA | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, History

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.

Director: Peter Flinth | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Heida Reed, Þorsteinn Bachmann

Votes: 28,502

75. Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)

TV-MA | 720 min | Crime, Drama

A dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.

Stars: Sam Neill, Michael Bryant, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell

Votes: 1,704

76. Howards End (2017–2018)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance

The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell, Philippa Coulthard, Alex Lawther

Votes: 6,641

77. Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)

TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Three schoolgirls and their governesses mysteriously disappear on Valentines Day in 1900.

Stars: Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan, Lola Bessis, Harrison Gilbertson

Votes: 4,500

78. When Hope Calls (2019– )

TV-G | Drama, Romance, Western

Spinoff series of 'When Calls the Heart' centering on the lives of orphan siblings Lillian and Grace, who grow up apart but reunite later in adulthood in the early 1900s.

Stars: Morgan Kohan, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Wendy Crewson, Neil Crone

Votes: 1,232

79. House of Wax (1953)

GP | 88 min | Horror

An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones

Votes: 20,310 | Gross: $23.75M

80. Victoria & Abdul (2017)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard

Votes: 38,336 | Gross: $22.25M

81. Cries & Whispers (1972)

R | 91 min | Drama

When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin

Votes: 37,099 | Gross: $1.74M

82. Horror Express (1972)

R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

While on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.

Director: Eugenio Martín | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Telly Savalas

Votes: 12,837

83. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best

Votes: 20,945

84. Breaker Morant (1980)

PG | 107 min | Drama, History, War

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown

Votes: 14,466 | Gross: $7.14M

85. A Trip to the Moon (1902)

TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure

A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.

Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet

Votes: 55,978

86. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood

Votes: 39,794

87. Queen of the Desert (2015)

PG-13 | 128 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis

Votes: 12,609

88. Elisa & Marcela (2019)

TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In 1901, Elisa Sanchez Loriga took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Marcela Gracia Ibeas.

Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández, Sara Casasnovas, Tamar Novas

Votes: 5,867

89. Coco Before Chanel (2009)

PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.

Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain

Votes: 42,181 | Gross: $6.11M

90. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Directors: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise | Stars: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter

Votes: 26,839

91. The Glassworker (2024)

98 min | Animation, Romance | Post-production

The life of a young glassblower in training and his relationships over the years, as his land goes through war and strife.

Director: Usman Riaz | Stars: Art Malik, Sacha Dhawan, Anjli Mohindra, Tony Jayawardena

92. Ashfall (2019)

TV-14 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Stagnant since 1903, at an elevation of 2,744 m, a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

Directors: Kim Byung-seo, Lee Hae-jun | Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Ha Jung-woo, Jeon Hye-jin, Ma Dong-seok

Votes: 6,023

93. Another Period (2013–2018)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, History

A mockumentary-style period piece comedy that follows members of the wealthy Bellacourt family and their servants in early 20th-century Newport, Rhode Island.

Stars: Natasha Leggero, Riki Lindhome, Armen Weitzman, Michael Ian Black

Votes: 5,465

94. Russian Ark (2002)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, History

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky

Votes: 21,857 | Gross: $0.04M

95. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Not Rated | 163 min | Drama, Romance, War

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie

Votes: 16,425

96. The Public Enemy (1931)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell

Votes: 23,082 | Gross: $1.01M

97. The Quake (2018)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

In 1904 an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Oslo, with an epicenter in the "Oslo Graben" which runs under the Norwegian capital. There are now signs that indicate that we can expect a major future earthquake in Oslo.

Director: John Andreas Andersen | Stars: Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Edith Haagenrud-Sande, Kathrine Thorborg Johansen

Votes: 14,679 | Gross: $0.01M

98. The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 240 min | Drama, Western

Brady Hawkes returns for another gambling adventure with the help of a madame named Burgundy Jones and a few famous TV western characters.

Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Kenny Rogers, Rick Rossovich, Reba McEntire, Claude Akins

Votes: 531

99. 55 Days at Peking (1963)

Unrated | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.

Directors: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton | Stars: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson

Votes: 7,445

100. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Not Rated | 66 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov

Votes: 61,569 | Gross: $0.05M