Movies and TvShows featuring "1900s-literature-on-screen" theme.
Anne of Green Gables follows the story of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to live with siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert. Despite Marilla's initial reluctance, Anne's vibrant imagination and undeniable spirit win the hearts of everyone in Avonlea. The series explores Anne's journey as she navigates friendships, school, love, and the challenges of growing up in the late 19th century.
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la Braquette's estate, she meets the hayseed handyman Sébastien and the butler Malou, who reward her favors with the offer of employment. In a manner recalling Terence Stamp's effect on the household in TEOREMA, Celestine's open and relaxed attitude toward sexuality has a transformative effect on the isolated, moribund inhabitants of the mansion, imbuing them with gift of renewed life for the men and women alike, that remains even after a third act twist that forces her to betray them.
The Rainbow follows the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, focusing on the experiences of the women in the family. It explores themes of bisexuality, sexual awakening, women's rights, and love amidst societal pressures.
Lucerna is a 1967 movie based on a play set in a small rural village in Central Europe. The story revolves around comedic and dramatic events that unfold in the village, with a touch of fantasy and history. The plot is centered on the characters and their interactions, portraying life in the village in the early 1900s.
Brouk v hlavě (2002) is a comedy film that revolves around mistaken identities and drunkenness. The story follows a doctor who gets mistaken for someone else and finds himself in hilarious situations. The film explores themes of identity, friendship, and high society.
This loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness follows Robert Klein as he sets out to find his brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Morálka paní Dulské is a comedy-drama movie based on the play by Gabriela Zapolska. The story revolves around the hypocritical and bossy woman, Mrs. Dulski, and her interactions with the people around her. Set in Central Europe in the early 20th century, the movie explores themes of morality, hypocrisy, and female empowerment.
Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short space of time and are a symbolic representation of the drama of life, struggle for justice, human cognizance and the healing power of love. One of the most important components of the film is the nature, which ceases to be a mere stage for its plot—it serves almost as an autonomous plot agent. The movie landscape is a precisely defined and localized one. Only the South Bohemian ponds can serve as the right environment for development of such earthy and typically human stories as we encounter in the Mist on the Moors.
A Czechoslovakian comedy directed by Carl Lamac and starring himself Theodor Pistek & Anny Ondra.
It's depict Anne's growth from a girl to a woman, through her bond with the siblings Matthew and Marilla, her friendship with Diana, and her romance with Gilbert.
The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of the Czech Modernist era... The film lingers over its characters’ habitats and haunts, finding psychological truths in what each owns or desires, and countering every Hollywood-ready scene of gleaming restaurants and dazzling penthouses with realist moments of employment lines and crammed flats. Vavra’s classical camerawork and aura of romantic defeatism give Virginity a force comparable to the master of this genre, Hollywood’s Frank Borzage. (BAM/PFA)
Knight Borek is searching for his missing son. Enthralled by the stories of children's crusades, little Jan has run away from home. Borek's crusade is a journey into his own subconscious, where he is forced to confront his greatest fear.
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.
