Movies: 1920s

A walk through the landscapes of the province of Salamanca, Spain, as well as a testimony of the daily life and customs of its inhabitants....

House of the Wickedest Man in the World is the story of a ruined building near the city of Cefalú in Sicily. In the early 1920s, Aleister Crowley, the most famous occultist of his time, lived in the building, practicing magical rituals. In the summer...

Ashamed of being gay, Touko draws erotic pictures of muscular men to release his sexual tension. Through his art he becomes an international gay icon, Tom of Finland....

While a young woman sleeps unawares in her bed, three creatures emerge from her dreams and playfully wreak havoc on her room. Before the woman wakes up, they disappear again....

A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed and takes great advantage of her situation. For the heart of the comedy lies in the problem of how to ...

An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in the region of Extremadura, in 1922....

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Chapter 6 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between 1925 and 1929....

Set In 1926, three friends and struggling child actors in Hollywood search for roles that lead to competition threatening their friendship. Through a series of auditions, conversations, and dances, the film navigates the challenges of child actors in...

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In the 1920s, in Turkmenistan, Qalli-bai makes the difficult decision to join the Basmachi, leaving behind his ailing wife in the care of their daughter, Dzhamal....

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Madrid, 1929. Emilia arrives in the avant-garde capital determined to study at the Royal Academy of Arts and become a painter. She wants to learn the technique to draw what her imagination conceives, a wild dream for a young provincial girl in a worl...

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The film will tell the story of the campaign of antisemitism waged by automotive pioneer Henry Ford throughout the 1920s. It was in 1925 that Aaron Sapiro, a self-made lawyer and activist, sued Ford for libel. After a dramatic court case that gripped...

Through both live and stop motion 3D and 2D puppetry, Ernest the circus mouse learns that doing the most dangerous of stunts to gain recognition from strangers can lead to the most tragic fates....

A true crime noir about the execution of Ruth Snyder...

The silent film is about a depressive lady of the last century who travels through time to a beach of current times, but ends up coming across a completely polluted environment....

A walk through the landscapes of the province of Barcelona, Spain, as well as a testimony of the daily life and customs of its inhabitants....