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51. Paragraph 175 (2000)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary, History, Romance
Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel
Votes: 2,192 | Gross: $0.07M
52. Ice Palace (1960)
Approved | 143 min | Adventure, Drama, History
After WW1, Zeb and Thor start a cannery business in Alaska but eventually they drift apart with Zeb becoming unscrupulous and Thor becoming involved in Alaskan politics.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Martha Hyer, Jim Backus
Votes: 409
53. Mosley (1998)
Biography, Drama, History
An account of the colourful life of the infamous British fascist Oswald Mosley, concentrating on the period between the end of WW1 and his imprisonment at the beginning of WW2.
Stars: Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave, Hugh Bonneville, Flora Montgomery
Votes: 156
54. The Irish Civil War (2022)
Documentary
Documentary series telling the epic and often challenging story of the origins, conflict and legacy of the civil war that took place in Ireland in 1922 and 1923, based on the mammoth text 'Atlas of the Irish Revolution'.
Director: Ruán Magan | Stars: Peter Coonan, Tim Creed, Liz Gillis, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 70
55. La Garçonne (2020– )
305 min | Crime, Drama
Paris, June 1919. Louise Kerlac witnesses the murder of a family friend by state agents who frame her. She becomes a police detective using her brother's identity, convinced it will be the best place to hide and to prove her innocence.
Stars: Laura Smet, Grégory Fitoussi, Tom Hygreck, Clément Aubert
Votes: 254
56. Pogranicze w ogniu (1991–1992)
60 min | Action, Adventure
Movie takes place between WWI and WWII (1918-1939) and shows complicated lots of two friends that have associated with polish intelligence and live full of dangers lifes.
Stars: Cezary Pazura, Olaf Lubaszenko, Janusz Bukowski, Hanna Polk
Votes: 82
57. Rigas sargi (2007)
118 min | Action, Drama, History
The First World War is over. Martins, after many years spent in war abroad, returns to his bride Elza in Latvia. He does not realize that the decisive battle for the heart of Elza and for the newly founded Latvian state is yet to come.
Director: Aigars Grauba | Stars: Janis Reinis, Elita Klavina, Girts Krumins, Romualds Ancans
Votes: 2,052
58. Little Man, What Now? (1934)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 640
59. Ceasefire (2016)
103 min | Drama, History
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the ... See full summary »
Director: Emmanuel Courcol | Stars: Romain Duris, Céline Sallette, Grégory Gadebois, Julie-Marie Parmentier
Votes: 543
60. La maison assassinée (1988)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Agnès Blanchot, Ingrid Held
Votes: 645
61. The Last Flight (1931)
Passed | 76 min | Drama
World War I veterans roam Paris, drinking and admiring a woman they recently met.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Johnny Mack Brown, Helen Chandler
Votes: 1,391
62. Memed My Hawk (1984)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama
In 1920s Turkey, young peasant Memed elopes with beautiful Hatche, who was promised in an arranged marriage to the local potentate Abdi Aga's son, and later joins a group of bandits.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Herbert Lom, Denis Quilley, Michael Elphick
Votes: 205
63. Men Must Fight (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Laura is a nurse at the Front in World War I. She meets and falls for a young flyer named Geoffrey. On his first mission, Geoffrey is shot down and taken to the hospital where Laura works. ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Diana Wynyard, Lewis Stone, Phillips Holmes, May Robson
Votes: 353
64. La chambre des officiers (2001)
135 min | Drama, Romance, War
French lieutenant has been mutilated in the early days of World War I, so he is forced to adapt in hospital to a new life.
Director: François Dupeyron | Stars: Éric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Derangère, Sabine Azéma
Votes: 1,742
65. Four Flights to Love (1939)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance, War
Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme, Monique Rolland
Votes: 228
66. Spider's Web (1989)
196 min | Drama
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The ... See full summary »
Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Andrea Jonasson
Votes: 244
67. The Blue Eagle (1926)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Drama
George and Big Jim are comrades in the Navy but rivals outside it, both fighting for the love of Rose. When the war is over Father Regan tries to unite them, making them settle their differences through a boxing fight.
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, William Russell, Margaret Livingston
Votes: 213
68. The Mystic Archives of Dantalian (2011– )
TV-MA | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Hugh Anthony Disward inherits an old mansion and a personal library from his grandfather. In the basement of the mansion, he meets a mysterious girl-Dalian. She is a Dantalian and a gateway... See full summary »
Stars: Daisuke Ono, Miyuki Sawashiro, Kana Hanazawa, Takahiro Sakurai
Votes: 204
69. Ceiling Zero (1936)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to... See full summary »
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 787
70. West of Broadway (1931)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance, War
Jerry Seevers returns from World War I service broken in health and his doctor tells him he has only six months to live. His fiancée jilts him and he sets out to drink himself to death. In ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: John Gilbert, El Brendel, Lois Moran, Madge Evans
Votes: 646
71. The Maiden and the Wolves (2008)
110 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
At the end of World War I, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Legrand | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Jean-Paul Rouve, Stefano Accorsi, Miglen Mirtchev
Votes: 604
72. Battle of Broadway (1938)
Approved | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two American Legionnaires on convention in New York share adventures and rivalries in an around show biz.
Directors: George Marshall, Allan Dwan | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 77
73. De glada åren (1946)
92 min | Drama
Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.
Director: Rune Carlsten | Stars: Annalisa Ericson, Ingrid Backlin, Margareta Fahlén, Erik 'Bullen' Berglund
Votes: 61
74. The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama
Easy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart. But his fellow crooks and... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Percy Marmont, Mary Brian, Neil Hamilton, John Harrington
Votes: 40
75. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.
Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei
Votes: 104
76. The Greater Glory (1926)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Romance, War
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
Director: Curt Rehfeld | Stars: Conway Tearle, Anna Q. Nilsson, May Allison, Ian Keith
Votes: 23
77. Promises & Betrayals: Britain and the Struggle for the Holy Land (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary outlines the ways in which British policies during the First World War have contributed to the instability of the Middle East region today. Through never/before/seen ... See full summary »
Director: Arense Kvaale | Stars: Struan Rodger, William Wilde, Christopher Coker, Fred Halliday
Votes: 45
78. Il sergente Klems (1971)
R | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle.
Director: Sergio Grieco | Stars: Peter Strauss, Tina Aumont, Pier Paolo Capponi, Howard Ross
Votes: 77
79. The Weather in the Streets (1983 TV Movie)
133 min | Drama, Romance
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Michael York, Lisa Eichhorn, Joanna Lumley, Rosalind Ayres
Votes: 41
80. Flying Devils (1933)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Anny Hardy is a parachute-stunt diver with a flying-circus group of barnstorming pilots which her husband, "Speed" Hardy heads. She meets and falls in love with Bud Murray, the younger ... See full summary »
Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Arline Judge, Bruce Cabot, Eric Linden, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 158
81. The Blue Exile (1993)
108 min | Biography, Drama
Cevat Sakir is an exile punished for publishing an article regarding that government executed deserters from army, subsequently he was sent to Bodrum where he realized Bodrum is a heavenly ... See full summary »
Director: Erden Kiral | Stars: Kürsat Alniaçik, Mevlüt Demiryay, Suavi Eren, Halil Ergün
Votes: 197
82. The Flying Fool (1929)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in love with her himself.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: William Boyd, Marie Prevost, Tom O'Brien, Russell Gleason
Votes: 102
83. Homecoming (1928)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance, War
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by ... See full summary »
Director: Joe May | Stars: Lars Hanson, Dita Parlo, Gustav Fröhlich, Theodor Loos
Votes: 220
84. The Massacre That Shook The Empire (2019)
60 min | Documentary, History
On 13 April 1919, British troops shot hundreds of peaceful protesters dead in India. This film shines new light on a deeply controversial moment in Britain's history, and examines its troubling legacy.
Director: Chris Durlacher | Stars: Sathnam Sanghera, Winston Churchill, Reginald Dyer
Votes: 26
85. Die Konterrevolution (2011 TV Movie)
88 min | History
Germany, 1920. First World War is lost. The peace treaty of Versailles obliges Germany to reduce its army, the "Reichswehr" to 100,000 soldiers. Influencal groups of economists and military... See full summary »
Director: Bernd Fischerauer | Stars: Hans-Michael Rehberg, Michael Rotschopf, Christian Hoening, Michael Roll
Votes: 36
86. Luciano Serra, pilota (1938)
102 min | Drama, War
Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to ... See full summary »
Director: Goffredo Alessandrini | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Germana Paolieri, Roberto Villa, Mario Ferrari
Votes: 110
87. Hitler's Coup 1923 (2023 TV Special)
Documentary, History
In 1923, Adolf Hitler led the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to take power in Germany by force. It was a day that changed the world forever, birthing Hitler's regime.
Directors: Dominic Saville, Lyndy Saville | Stars: Giles Milton, Clare Mulley, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Richard John Evans
88. Carrefour (1938)
84 min | Drama
A amnesiac industrialist is tricked into a game of mistaken identity.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim, Tania Fédor
Votes: 135
89. Plotlands (1997– )
50 min | Drama
Escaping with her children from her abusive husband, Chloe Marsh acquires a plot of land on a rural site where the residents construct their own basic houses.
Stars: Saskia Reeves, Richard Lintern, Amanda Abbington, Rebecca Callard
Votes: 17
90. The Great Love (1931)
76 min | Drama
Ten years after the end of World War I, Austrian soldier Franz leaves Russia and returns to his village, where he is reunited with Frieda, a woman who believes he is her long-lost son.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Hansi Niese, Attila Hörbiger, Betty Bird, Hugo Thimig
Votes: 107
91. His First Command (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: William Boyd, Dorothy Sebastian, Gavin Gordon, Helen Parrish
Votes: 52
92. Europe After the Rain (1978)
88 min | Documentary
Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize Dada's anarchy into an artistic blend of ... See full summary »
Director: Mick Gold | Stars: Antonin Artaud, Joan Bakewell, Simon Cadell, Dennis Clinton
Votes: 78
93. Atatürk: Founder of Modern Turkey (1999)
52 min | Documentary, Biography
Examines the controversial legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the revolutionary Turkish leader.
Director: Tarquin Olivier | Stars: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nigel Hawthorne
Votes: 511
94. La tendre ennemie (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Two ghosts attend an engagement party, unseen by the other guests. One ghost, Dupont, is the father of the bride-to-be. He looks back on his marriage to her mother. His wife Annette was ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Simone Berriau, Catherine Fonteney, Laure Diana, Jacqueline Daix
Votes: 272
95. Der Fall Liebknecht-Luxemburg (1969 TV Movie)
185 min | Drama, War
Director: Theo Mezger | Stars: Edith Heerdegen, Richard Lauffen, Harry Buckwitz, Martin Benrath
Votes: 30
96. The Cradle of Courage (1920)
Passed | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Former crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of his comrades-in-arms convinces him to join the police force. But Kelly finds himself ... See full summary »
Directors: William S. Hart, Lambert Hillyer | Stars: William S. Hart, Ann Little, Tom Santschi, Gertrude Claire
Votes: 91
97. Die Überführung (1979 TV Movie)
115 min | Drama
Director: Kurt Wilhelm | Stars: Toni Berger, Karl Obermayr, Christa Berndl, Ilse Neubauer
Votes: 13
98. Gigolo (1926)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance, War
The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who married her for her money. After he ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Jobyna Ralston, Louise Dresser, Cyril Chadwick
Votes: 17
99. Cei care platesc cu viata (1989)
102 min | Drama, Romance
An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography.
Director: Serban Marinescu | Stars: Serban Cantacuzino, Tudorel Filimon, Ovidiu Ghinita, Stefan Iordache
Votes: 109
100. Little Man What Now (1933)
100 min | Drama
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
Directors: Berthold Viertel, Fritz Wendhausen | Stars: Hermann Thimig, Hertha Thiele, Viktor de Kowa, Ida Wüst
Votes: 22