“1900” - Bernardo Bertolucci; 5 hours, 17 mins. :eek:
American Zion (2005) is set in 1833. It’s a sequel to The Work and the Glory (2004). The movies are about a family in the early years of the LDS church.
Could also add:
33 AD - The Last Temptation of Christ
ca. 1900
The Valley of Gwangi. The greatest Western ever made.
Bumped.
Here are some more, not already listed above:
1849 Cloud Atlas
1863 Free State of Jones
1891 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1918 Sergeant York
1926 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
1936 Cloud Atlas
1940 Darkest Hour
1943 The Bridge over the River Kwai / Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
1944 36 Hours / Where Eagles Dare
1945 Battleground
1951 Hail, Caesar!
1954 Phantom Thread / Point of Order
1955 Angel Heart
1961 Inside Llewyn Davis
1962 The Shape of Water / Bridge of Spies
1963 On the Beach
1964 Doubt / All The Way
1969 First Man
1971 The Post
1972 Last Man on the Moon
1973 Cloud Atlas
1974 Nixon
1981 Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
1985 Dallas Buyers Club
1994 I, Tonya
1995 Rabin In His Own Words
2008 God Knows Where I Am
2009 Sully
2011 Concussion
2012 Cloud Atlas
2013 Weiner
2035 The Martian
2144 Cloud Atlas
2311 Cloud Atlas
Bumped with another film:
1935 Murder on the Orient Express
Casablanca. Filmed in 1942, set in 1941.
Zulu. Filmed in 1964, set in 1879.
The Dawn Patrol. Filmed in 1930 and 1938, set in 1915.
The Charge of the Light Brigade. Filmed in 1936, set in 1854.
The Blue Max. Filmed in 1966, set in 1918.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Filmed in 1966, set in 1862.
Sahara. Filmed in 1943, set in 1942.
The African Queen. Filmed in 1951, set in 1914.
1773—Barry Lyndon (Barry and Lady Lyndon married June 15, 1773 )
Bumped.
1895 We’re No Angels
1935 We’re No Angels
The remake was set 40 years later, and moved from French Guiana to upstate New York.
Has Double Indemnity been mentioned yet? Set in 1938, filmed in 1944.
What about Meet Me in St Louis? Set in 1904, also filmed in 1944.
Easter Parade? Set in 1912, filmed in 1948.
The Best Years of Our Lives was made in 1946 but I think was set earlier in 1944 or 1945. A 1944 article on the difficulties of servicemen returning from the war inspired the screenplay although the film could be considered to take place in 1946.
I believe King Rat was depicting the already crowded year 1945. IMHO this is a film of remarkable quality, depicting the human suffering of WWII POWs imprisoned in Singapore.
Psycho (1960, directed by Alfred Hitchcock) hasn’t been mentioned. According to IMDB, it takes place in December of 1959. Upthread, Diner has been suggested for that year.
Filling in the big gap for movies set between 1818 and 1826:
Mr. Malcolm’s List (2022) - set in 1818
Peterloo (2019) - set in 1819
First Cow (2019) - set in 1820
Lost Illusions (2021) - set in 1821
Van Diemen’s Land (2009) - set in 1822
The Revenant (2015) - set in 1823
Vanina Vanini (1961) - set in 1824
The Nightingale (2018) - set in 1825
The Stranglers of Bombay (1960) - set in 1826
Doubtful. The war ended in September 1945, and the weather was balmy when the veterans returned home. Assuming they lived in someplace like California, that would put them there probably sometime in late October or early November 1945, at the earliest. (I don’t think any mention was made of the upcoming Holiday season.) Many GIs weren’t demobbed until much later.
Stalag 17, on the other hand, was explicitly set in December 1944 and filmed in 1953.