Films set in the 1920s

1941 American drama film directed by Orson Welles

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

2004 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2011 film by Woody Allen

2008 film by David Fincher

2014 film directed by Morten Tyldum

1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

1985 film by Sydney Pollack

1965 film directed by David Lean

1952 film directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

2015 film by Tom Hooper

1931 film by Wesley Ruggles

2023 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2007 film directed by Olivier Dahan

1936 film by Robert Zigler Leonard

2005 film directed by Rob Marshall

1952 film directed by John Ford

1933 film by Frank Lloyd

2002 film directed by Julie Taymor

1994 film directed by Edward Zwick

1976 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

1996 film directed by Alan Parker

1999 film directed by Lasse Hallström

1990 film by Coen brothers

2011 film by Clint Eastwood

1962 film by François Truffaut

1956 American epic Western drama film

1930 German film directed by Josef von Sternberg

1959 film by Fred Zinnemann

2022 film by Martin McDonagh

1979 film directed by Volker Schlöndorff

1932 American gangster film

2018 film directed by Marc Forster

2004 film by Ron Howard

2006 film directed by Ken Loach

1968 film by William Wyler

1997 film by Adrian Lyne

1991 film directed by Jon Avnet

Zelig is a 1983 American satirical mockumentary comedy film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, a nondescript enigma, who, apparently out of his desire to fit in and be liked, unwittingly takes on the characteristics of strong personalities around him. The film, presented as a documentary, recounts his period of intense celebrity during the 1920s, including analyses by contemporary intellectuals.

1992 film by Spike Lee

1984 US/UK film directed by David Lean

1998 film by Giuseppe Tornatore

1961 film by Elia Kazan

Timecop is a 1994 American science fiction action film directed by Peter Hyams and co-written by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden. Richardson also served as executive producer. The film is based on Timecop, a story created by Richardson, written by Verheiden, and drawn by Ron Randall, which appeared in the anthology comic Dark Horse Comics, published by Dark Horse Comics. It is the first installment in the Timecop franchise.

2019 film directed by Michael Engler

1995 film directed by Oliver Stone

1928 film directed by Josef von Sternberg

2003 film directed by Gary Ross

1943 US partly-animated Disney film

1930 film by Josef von Sternberg and Henry Hathaway

1924 film by Erich von Stroheim

1986 film directed by Claude Berri

1970 film by Luis Buñuel

1993 film directed by Bille August

1932 film by Mervyn LeRoy

1928 film by Vsevolod Pudovkin

1960 film directed by Richard Brooks

2007 film directed by Mike Newell

1928 film by King Vidor

1942 film by Sam Wood