Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "year-1926"

1. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)

R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.

Votes: 724,559 | Gross: $326.11M

2. The Mummy (1999)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo

Votes: 460,609 | Gross: $155.25M

3. Young Woman and the Sea (2024)

PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance | Completed

The story of competitive swimmer Trudy Ederle, who, in 1926, was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel.

Director: Joachim Rønning | Stars: Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodnia

4. The Princess and the Frog (2009)

G | 97 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Oprah Winfrey, Bruno Campos

Votes: 166,701 | Gross: $104.40M

5. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

PG-13 | 132 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In 1926, magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York during his worldwide tour to research and rescue magical creatures as something mysterious leaves trails of destruction in the city, threatening to expose the wizarding world.

Director: David Yates | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler

Votes: 507,584 | Gross: $234.04M

6. Anastasia (1997)

G | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.

Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman | Stars: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, Kelsey Grammer

Votes: 135,975 | Gross: $58.41M

7. A River Runs Through It (1992)

PG | 123 min | Drama

Two sons of a stern minister - one reserved, one rebellious - grow up in rural 1920s Montana while devoted to fly fishing.

Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn

Votes: 65,453 | Gross: $43.44M

8. The Danish Girl (2015)

R | 119 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw

Votes: 199,201 | Gross: $11.11M

9. Nine (2009)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sandro Dori

Votes: 45,249 | Gross: $19.68M

10. The Butler (I) (2013)

PG-13 | 132 min | Biography, Drama

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.

Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda

Votes: 119,720 | Gross: $116.63M

11. Evita (1996)

PG | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History

The hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Nail

Votes: 37,569 | Gross: $50.05M

12. Live by Night (2016)

R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina

Votes: 59,809 | Gross: $10.38M

13. 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: 12,572

14. Valentino (1977)

R | 128 min | Biography, Drama

In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide.

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane

Votes: 2,151

15. Agatha (1979)

PG | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

December 1926, Agatha Christie's 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.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, Helen Morse

Votes: 3,572 | Gross: $7.50M

16. Stone of Destiny (2008)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

The story of Ian Hamilton, a dedicated nationalist who reignited Scottish national pride in the 1950s with his daring raid on the heart of England to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland.

Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Stephen McCole, Ciaron Kelly

Votes: 4,374

17. Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1926, with her personal life in tatters and her writing in crisis, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder.

Director: Terry Loane | Stars: Dean Andrews, Ruth Bradley, Bebe Cave, Amelia Dell

Votes: 5,546

18. A Bear Named Winnie (2004 TV Movie)

PG | 90 min | Drama, War

The extraordinary veritable story of the black bear who would become the inspiration for the stories of A.A. Milne, and the heroic man who saved her life.

Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Gil Bellows, David Suchet, Stephen Fry

Votes: 1,192

19. Death Defying Acts (2007)

PG | 97 min | Drama, History, Romance

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

Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan

Votes: 10,496 | Gross: $0.00M

20. The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)

PG | 107 min | Adventure, Drama

After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon

Votes: 6,601 | Gross: $20.64M

21. Finding Vivian Maier (2013)

Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, Mystery

A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.

Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel | Stars: Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Daniel Arnaud, Simon Amédé

Votes: 15,079 | Gross: $1.51M

22. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 110 min | Drama, History

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Director: John Korty | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Joel Fluellen

Votes: 2,497

23. Amundsen (2019)

125 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The life and adventures of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first man to arrive on the South Pole.

Director: Espen Sandberg | Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Christian Rubeck, Katherine Waterston, Trond Espen Seim

Votes: 4,990

24. Adam Resurrected (2008)

R | 106 min | Drama, War

In the aftermath of World War II, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Cristian Motiu, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 4,448

25. Brotherhood (I) (2019)

96 min | Drama

In 1926, a group of teenage boys arrive at Long Point Camp for the adventure of their lives. When their canoe capsizes in a freak summer storm, their holiday descends into a soul-shuddering fight for survival.

Director: Richard Bell | Stars: Brendan Fletcher, Brendan Fehr, Spencer Macpherson, Jake Manley

Votes: 352

26. This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama

In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder. Things complicate when their feeble-minded mother begins to suspect something.

Director: Michael Oblowitz | Stars: Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Christian Durango, Sloan Cobb

Votes: 1,324 | Gross: $0.01M

27. Dead of Night (1977 TV Movie)

76 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Three horror stories about a vintage car that transports its driver back to 1926, the mistress of an old Victorian mansion who is scared of a vampire and a mother tormented by her dead son who she has brought back to life.

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., E.J. André, Ann Doran, Christina Hart

Votes: 1,625

28. The Moderns (1988)

R | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A struggling artist is hired to forge paintings, causing him to cross paths with his ex-wife and her powerful new husband.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold

Votes: 2,034 | Gross: $2.01M

29. Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York, as well as getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.

Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young, Scott Brady

Votes: 652

30. Balto: Wolf Quest (2001 Video)

G | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

Balto and his daughter Aleu embark on a journey of adventure and self discovery.

Director: Phil Weinstein | Stars: Jodi Benson, David Carradine, Lacey Chabert, Mark Hamill

Votes: 5,403

31. Bonnie & Clyde: Justified (2013 Video)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama

During the Depression, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow meet and fall in love over a cup of hot chocolate. Their violent courtship leads to bank robberies, prison and a multi-state crime spree, securing their place in history.

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Eric Roberts, Ashley Hayes, Jim Poole, Julian Brand

Votes: 188

32. Roxie Hart (1942)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy

Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don't swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman

Votes: 1,913 | Gross: $2.40M

33. Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003 Video)

Not Rated | 80 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Peter Hertz, who was rescued from the Nazis as a child by Andre Toulon in the 1940's, is now an old man and has inherited the puppets. He is pursued by an assassin who forces him to tell her the entire history of Toulon and the puppets.

Director: Charles Band | Stars: Jacob Witkin, Kate Orsini, Ian Abercrombie, Sage Allen

Votes: 1,775

34. Moana (1926)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary

Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s.

Directors: Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Ta'avale, Fa'amgase, T'ugaita, Tama

Votes: 736

35. Hollywood Babylon (1971)

X | 87 min | Drama

A faux cautionary documentary that portrays several notorious celebrity sex scandals from the golden age of Hollywood through film clips and often humorous softcore reenactments.

Director: Van Guylder | Stars: Roger Gentry, Myron Griffin, Ashley Phillips, Uschi Digard

Votes: 148

36. Sister Aimee (2019)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy

America’s most famous evangelist is a woman looking for a way out. Fed up with her own success, and swept up in her lover’s daydreams about Mexico, she finds herself on a wild road trip to the border. Based on true events. Mostly made up.

Directors: Samantha Buck, Marie Schlingmann | Stars: Michael Mosley, Julie White, Nathan Zellner, Macon Blair

Votes: 247

37. Eva Peron: The True Story (1996)

PG | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History

Drama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33.

Director: Juan Carlos Desanzo | Stars: Esther Goris, Víctor Laplace, Cristina Banegas, Pepe Novoa

Votes: 522

38. Angel of Christmas (2015 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance

After she finally gets the chance to pen her very first article, an aspiring newspaper writer digs into her family history to find the perfect Christmas story.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Jennifer Finnigan, Jonathan Scarfe, Holly Robinson Peete, Christie Laing

Votes: 2,340

39. Film 18 (1926)

16 min | Documentary, Short

Adventure series; churches, businesses and schools in Okmulgee, OK; Tulsa, OK; Muskogee, OK.

Director: Solomon Sir Jones

Votes: 53

40. The Sixth Part of the World (1926)

68 min | Documentary

"Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.

Director: Dziga Vertov

Votes: 593

41. Sakura Wars: The Movie (2001)

PG-13 | 80 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Join Sakura's troupe of musical mechsuit divas for a supernatural showdown. As a fresh face joins the team, others begin to vanish. When demons terrorize Tokyo, the metal maidens must pull their act together and drop the curtain on evil.

Director: Mitsuru Hongô | Stars: Chisa Yokoyama, Michie Tomizawa, Urara Takano, Kumiko Nishihara

Votes: 321

42. Nothing But Time (1926)

45 min | Documentary

The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor, with little or no comment (intertitles) from the director, Cavalcanti (whose first film this was).

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Blanche Bernis, Nina Chousvalowa, Philippe Hériat, Clifford McLaglen

Votes: 586

43. Patul lui Procust (2002)

118 min | Drama, Romance

George Ladima, a poet and renowned journalist, loves Emilia, an actress whom he helps in her career, but who takes advantage of him. He commits suicide and in his pocket is found a love note to a Mrs. T.

Directors: Viorica Mesinã, Sergiu Prodan | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Petru Vutcarau, Maia Morgenstern, Tania Popa

Votes: 361

44. Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini (2020)

117 min | Documentary, Drama

The true and forgotten story of Violet Gibson, daughter of the Lord Chancellor to Ireland, who shot fascist dictator Benito Mussolini at point-blank range as she faced a Fascist mob in Rome in 1926.

Directors: Barrie Dowdall, Kevin de la Isla O'Neill | Stars: Olwen Fouéré, Padraig Cullen, Michael Heavey, Siobhan Lynam

Votes: 21

45. Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer (1926)

76 min | Documentary, Adventure, Fantasy

A dramatized documentary displaying living bees and other forest animals interacting with each other. Based on a fairy tale by the same name (1912), written by Waldemar Bonsels (1881-1952). He himself assisted in the filming.

Directors: Waldemar Bonsels, Wolfram Junghans

Votes: 41

46. Sea Salts (1949)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

An elderly beetle recalls his long partnership with sea captain Donald, beginning with their time shipwrecked on a desert island.

Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Clarence Nash, Dink Trout

Votes: 401

47. Stride, Soviet! (1926)

65 min | Documentary

Dziga Vertov records the achievements, and some failures, of the Moscow soviet.

Director: Dziga Vertov

Votes: 251

48. The Radio Detective (1926)

Passed | 198 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

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Directors: William James Craft, William A. Crinley | Stars: Jack Dougherty, Margaret Quimby, Jack Mower, Wallace Baldwin

Votes: 26

49. Black Mary Poppins (2015 Video)

130 min | Drama, Musical, Thriller

Four siblings investigate the events that led to the murder of their father and disappearance of their nanny, Mary.

Director: So Young Mi | Stars: Shinji Rachi, Shôko Nakagawa, Ryosei Konishi, Ryûji Kamiyama

50. Amazing Earth (1998 TV Movie)

TV-G | 94 min | Documentary

Catastrophic events alter the planet's appearance.

Director: Brian Skilton | Star: Patrick Stewart

Votes: 69