Luscious at the movies: Films and TV shows set in the 1900s-1940s – part 1

If you’re a lover of historical fashion, researching costumes for a certain period, or simply love films set in the past, you might like some of the movies and TV shows on this list…

My list technically includes films which go on into the 1940s onwards, but comes mainly out of a Edwardian Age to Jazz Age bias. One day, I’ll do my list of preferred films from the 1940s as there are soooo many wartime films.

Here’s our gallery, part 1:

• A Dangerous Method (2011) – read more |  buy it here
• A Good Woman (2004) – read more |  buy it here
• A Month in the Country (1987) – read more |  buy it here
• A Night to Remember (1958) – read more | buy it here
• A Passage to India (1984) – read more |  buy it here
• A Room with a View (1985) – read more |  buy it here
• Agatha Christie’s Marple (Various) – read more |  buy it here
• Agatha Christie’s Poirot (Various) – read more |  buy it here
• All Creatures Great and Small (1978-1990) – read more |  buy it here
• Anastasia (1956) – read more |  buy it here
• Angela’s Ashes (1999) – read more |  buy it here
• Another Country (1984) – read more |  buy it here
• Any Human Heart (2010) – read more |  buy it here
• Atonement (2007) – read more |  buy it here
• Auntie Mame (1958) – read more |  buy it here
• Belle Epoque (1992) – read more |  buy it here
• Billy Bathgate (1991) – read more |  buy it here
• Birdsong (2012) – read more |  buy it here
• Boardwalk Empire (2010+) – read more |  buy it here
• Brideshead Revisited (1981) – read more |  buy it here
• Brideshead Revisited (2008) – read more |  buy it here
• Bright Young Things (2003) – read more |  buy it here
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994) – read more |  buy it here
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) – read more |  buy it here
• Cabaret (1972) – read more |  buy it here
• Caddie (1976) – read more |  buy it here
• Carrington (1995) – read more |  buy it here
• Cavalcade (1933) – read more |  buy it here
• Century Hotel (2001) – read more |  buy it here
• Chaplin (1992) – read more |  buy it here
• Chariots of Fire (1981) – read more |  buy it here
• Chicago (2002) – read more |  buy it here
• Citizen Kane (1941) – read more |  buy it here
• Coco Before Chanel (2009) – read more |  buy it here
• Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009) – read more |  buy it here
• Cracks (2009) – read more |  buy it here
• Dick Tracy (1990) – read more |  buy it here
• Doctor Zhivago (1965) – read more |  buy it here
• Downton Abbey (2010+) – read more |  buy it here
• Easy Virtue (2008) – read more |  buy it here
• Enchanted April (1991) – read more |  buy it here
• Evita (1996) – read more |  buy it here
• Finding Neverland (2004) – read more |  buy it here
• Frances (1982) – read more |  buy it here
• Frida (2002) – read more |  buy it here
• Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) – read more |  buy it here
• Funny Girl (1968) – read more |  buy it here
• Gandhi (1982) – read more |  buy it here
• Gigi (1958) – read more |  buy it here
• Goodbye Mr Chips (1939) – read more |  buy it here
• Gosford Park (2001) – read more |  buy it here
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) – read more |  buy it here
• Heat and Dust (1983) – read more |  buy it here
• Heaven Can Wait (1943) – read more |  buy it here
• Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) – read more |  buy it here
• Henry & June (1990) – read more |  buy it here
• House of Elliott (1991-94) – read more |  buy it here
• Howard’s End (1992) – read more |  buy it here
• I Capture the Castle (2003) – read more |  buy it here
• Indochine (1992) – read more |  buy it here
• Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93) – read more |  buy it here
• La Vie en Rose (2007) – read more |  buy it here
• Ladies in Lavender (2004) – read more |  buy it here
• Lady Sings the Blues (1972) – read more |  buy it here
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – read more |  buy it here
• Leatherheads (2008) – read more |  buy it here
• Legends of the Fall (1994) – read more |  buy it here
• Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) – read more |  buy it here
• Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) – read more |  buy it here
• Maurice (1987) – read more |  buy it here
• Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) – read more |  buy it here
• Midnight in Paris (2011) – read more |  buy it here
• Miller’s Crossing (1990) – read more |  buy it here
• Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012+) – read more |  buy it here
• Mobsters (1991) – read more |  buy it here
• Mr North (1988) – read more |  buy it here
• Mr Selfridge (2013+) – read more |  buy it here
• Mrs Miniver (1942) – read more |  buy it here
• Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) – read more |  buy it here
• Out of Africa (1985) – read more |  buy it here
• Papillon (1973) – read more |  buy it here
• Parade’s End (2012+) – read more |  buy it here
• Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983) – read more |  buy it here
• Seabiscuit (2003) – read more |  buy it here
• Some Like It Hot (1959) – read more |  buy it here
• The African Queen (1951) – read more |  buy it here
• The Artist (2011) – read more |  buy it here
• The Aviator (2004) – read more |  buy it here
• The Camomile Lawn (1992) – read more |  buy it here
• The Cat’s Meow (2001) – read more |  buy it here
• The Changeling (2008) – read more |  buy it here
• The Cider House Rules (1999) – read more |  buy it here
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) – read more |  buy it here
• The English Patient (1996) – read more |  buy it here
• The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) – read more |  buy it here
• The Glenn Miller Story (1954) – read more |  buy it here
• The Godfather Part II (1974) – read more |  buy it here
• The Good Shepherd (2006) – read more |  buy it here
• The Great Gatsby (1949) – read more |  buy it here
• The Great Gatsby (1974) – read more |  buy it here
• The Great Gatsby (2000) – read more |  buy it here
• The Great Gatsby (2013) – read more
• The Great Ziegfeld (1936) – read more |  buy it here
• The Hours (2002) – read more |  buy it here
• The House of Mirth (2000) – read more |  buy it here
• The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) – read more |  buy it here
• The Little Princess (1995) – read more |  buy it here
• The Lover (1992) – read more |  buy it here
• The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) – read more |  buy it here
• The Prestige (2006) – read more |  buy it here
• The Road to Wellville (1994) – read more |  buy it here
• The Shooting Party (1985) – read more |  buy it here
• The Thorn Birds (1983) – read more |  buy it here
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) – read more |  buy it here
• The Untouchables (1959) – read more |  buy it here
• The Untouchables (1987) – read more |  buy it here
• The Wings of the Dove (1997) – read more |  buy it here
• Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) – read more |  buy it here
• Titanic (1953) – read more | buy it here
• Titanic (1997) – read more |  buy it here
• Titanic (2012) – read more |  buy it here
• Underbelly: Razor (2011) – read more |  buy it here
• Upstairs Downstairs (1971-75) – read more |  buy it here
• Upstairs Downstairs (2010+ ) – read more |  buy it here
• W.E. (2011) – read more |  buy it here
• War Horse (2011) – read more |  buy it here
• Young Winston (1972) – read more |  buy it here

Here’s our gallery, part 2:

See parts 3 and 4 of our galleries here.

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Recommended reading: British and American "upper class" social history 1870s-1930s

Recommended reading: British and American "upper class" social history from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age

Recommended viewing: American and British period drama TV series and films

Some suggestions for American and British period dramas and films relating to the Gilded Era through to the Jazz Age

Follow all our Luscious on Pinterest boards here, including:

• 1920s style, including The Great Gatsby
• Historical glamour
• Historical fashion
• A Room with a View
• Inspired by the British Empire
• Downton Abbey
• A step back in time

See more of our photos from films and TV shows relating to the periods of 1900-1940 here.

Cheers, Natasha
www.myLusciousLife.com

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