Netflix Movies and Categories Finder: 20th Century Period Pieces
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The Shawshank Redemption
Framed for murder, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison and gradually forms a close bond with older inmate Red.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:22:33
Netflix ID: 70005379
Schindler's List
Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:15:04
Netflix ID: 60036359
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, a friendly, simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:22:28
Netflix ID: 60000724
Peaky Blinders
A notorious gang in 1919 Birmingham, England, is led by the fierce Tommy Shelby, a crime boss set on moving up in the world no matter the cost.
Released: 2015-04-14
Netflix ID: 80002479
Life Is Beautiful
A Jewish waiter, his wife and their son are sent to a concentration camp, where the waiter tries to protect his son's innocence by playing a game.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:17
Netflix ID: 1192333
The Prestige
Desperate to reveal each other's secrets, two rival magicians begin to perform increasingly risky tricks -- which soon turn deadly.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:10:16
Netflix ID: 70047095
Black Friday
This docudrama based on the same-titled book tracks the aftermath of a 1993 bombing in Bombay through the eyes of a journalist covering the story.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:41:49
Netflix ID: 70077720
Cinema Paradiso
When a Sicilian boy is mesmerized by the movies at his local theater, he befriends a projectionist who tells him to leave home and pursue his dreams.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:04:10
Netflix ID: 60022965
Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version
This Oscar-winning epic tells the true story of T.E. Lawrence, who helped unite warring Arab tribes to strike back against the Turks in World War I.
Released: 2015-09-01
Runtime: 03:47:04
Netflix ID: 70012020
Das Boot: Director's Cut
Nominated for six Oscars, this edge-of-your-seat dramatic triumph follows the trials of a German U-boat crew during World War II.
Released: 2015-09-01
Runtime: 03:28:18
Netflix ID: 319867
Das Boot: Theatrical Cut
The theatrical cut of Wolfgang Petersen's epic drama delves into the lives of a German U-boat crew patrolling treacherous waters during World War II.
Released: 2016-01-20
Runtime: 02:29:06
Netflix ID: 70189475
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorcese's high-rolling Wall Street drama is based on the memoirs of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose giddy career ended in federal prison.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:59:52
Netflix ID: 70266676
Hotel Rwanda
Amid the holocaust of tribal fighting in Rwanda, one ordinary hotel manager musters the courage to save more than 1,000 refugees.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:01:50
Netflix ID: 70019224
Catch Me If You Can
An FBI agent makes it his mission to put cunning con man Frank Abagnale Jr. behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:21:06
Netflix ID: 60024942
No Country for Old Men
While hunting, Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad and takes off with $2 million in cash, but a psychotic hit man is hot on his trail.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:15
Netflix ID: 70071613
Shutter Island
A U.S. marshal's troubling visions compromise his investigation into the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:18:12
Netflix ID: 70095139
Murdoch Mysteries
In Victorian-era Toronto, Inspector William Murdoch uses unconventional scientific methods to crack complex, high-profile murder cases.
Released: 2015-04-14
Netflix ID: 70143861
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Between the world wars, Gustave H, the concierge at a prestigious European hotel, takes a bellboy named Zero as a trusted protégé.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:39:44
Netflix ID: 70295915
Rush
This dramatic portrayal of the intense 1970s rivalry between race drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt captures the contrasts between the two champions.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:41
Netflix ID: 70253165
Hacksaw Ridge
During World War II, Army medic and conscientious objector Desmond Doss becomes an unlikely hero on an Okinawa battlefield without bearing arms.
Released: 2017-05-02
Runtime: 02:19:04
Netflix ID: 80108975
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A shy freshman struggling with depression deals with his best friend's suicide and his first love in this engaging coming-of-age tale.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:42:37
Netflix ID: 70243461
Big Fish
A reporter attempts to learn more about his dying father by finding the truth behind a lifetime of his tall tales and legends of epic proportions.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:05:09
Netflix ID: 60031268
Ip Man
An occupying Japanese general challenges Chinese men to duels to prove the superiority of the Japanese, but Ip Man refuses to fight -- at first.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:46:33
Netflix ID: 70118799
Special 26
This crime drama tells the story of Indian con artists who pose as government officials and execute a massive daytime tax raid on a prominent jeweler.
Released: 2015-04-14
Netflix ID: 70273637
Doctor Zhivago
A young physician and his beautiful mistress get swept up in the danger and drama of the Bolshevik Revolution in this Oscar-winning epic.
Released: 2016-10-01
Runtime: 03:19:56
Netflix ID: 449931
Boogie Nights
A well-endowed busboy is taken in by a tight-knit group of 1970s porn actors and transforms himself into skin flick celebrity Dirk Diggler.
Released: 2015-10-01
Runtime: 02:35:29
Netflix ID: 1180077
Dunkirk
In May 1940, soldiers and civilians struggle by land, sea and air to evacuate the British army and their allies, Europe's last hope, from Dunkirk.
Released: 2018-06-14
Runtime: 01:46:34
Netflix ID: 80170278
The Irishman
Hit man Frank Sheeran looks back at the secrets he kept as a loyal member of the Bufalino crime family in this acclaimed film from Martin Scorsese.
Released: 2019-11-27
Runtime: 03:29:26
Netflix ID: 80175798
The Notebook
Two young lovers are torn apart by war and class differences in the 1940s in this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's best-selling novel.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:03:48
Netflix ID: 60036227
Atonement
Young Briony fingers a young man for a crime after she discovers a lustful letter and witnesses a sexual encounter between him and her sister.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:52
Netflix ID: 70059993
Titanic
This cinematic spectacle -- winner of 11 Oscars -- follows society girl Rose and penniless artist Jack as they fall in love just as tragedy strikes.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:14:51
Netflix ID: 1181461
The Remains of the Day
In this Merchant-Ivory period drama, a dutiful butler dedicates himself to tending his lord's house, turning a blind eye to his Nazi sympathies.
Released: 2017-03-31
Runtime: 02:14:15
Netflix ID: 60011325
Hidden Figures
Three brilliant African-American women overcome bigotry and sexism to become the brains behind the launch of the first American astronaut into space.
Released: 2017-09-01
Runtime: 02:06:44
Netflix ID: 80123775
Ethel and Ernest
Based on author Raymond Briggs' memoir, this animated film honors his parents’ steadfast marriage amidst 20th-century Britain's most critical events.
Released: 2018-11-01
Runtime: 01:34:49
Netflix ID: 80226801
Donnie Brasco
When FBI agent Joe Pistone goes undercover to infiltrate the mob, he starts to identify with the made men he's charged with taking down.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:06:45
Netflix ID: 1151721
Laurence Anyways
When high school teacher Laurence decides to live as a woman, he must overcome the resistance of his devoted fiancée and his bewildered family.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:48:02
Netflix ID: 70243019
A Little Princess
With her father fighting in World War I, young Sara enrolls in boarding school and clashes with a headmistress who tries to stifle her self-worth.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:37:22
Netflix ID: 705734
Kung Fu Hustle
Sing, a mobster in 1940s China, longs to be as cool as the formally clad Axe Gang, a band of killers who rule Hong Kong, but can only pretend.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:38:54
Netflix ID: 70020728
Zodiac
Based on real events, this chilling drama recounts the actions of a killer who stalked the streets of San Francisco and left clues in the newspaper.
Released: 2015-04-22
Runtime: 02:37:45
Netflix ID: 70044686
Changeling
When her kidnapped son is brought home, a mother suspects that the boy isn't her child, so the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
Released: 2015-07-16
Runtime: 02:21:41
Netflix ID: 70100378
Billy Elliot
When a boy trades boxing school for ballet lessons, he may take his newfound talent all the way to the top - and win over his disapproving father.
Released: 2017-11-17
Runtime: 01:50:14
Netflix ID: 60003378
Fried Green Tomatoes
Flashbacks reveal the remarkable story of soul mates Idgie and Ruth, whose antics cause an uproar in their rural Southern town in the 1920s.
Released: 2018-04-10
Runtime: 02:10:13
Netflix ID: 525209
Blow
Cocaine smuggler George rises from poverty to become one of the biggest drug dealers in America before his eventual downfall.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:03:20
Netflix ID: 60020891
Legends of the Fall
The Ludlow clan -- father William and brothers Alfred, Tristan and Sam -- splinters when Sam leaves to fight in World War I against his dad's wishes.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:12:52
Netflix ID: 693960
The Others
While awaiting the return of her soldier husband from World War II, a devout Christian mother of two begins to suspect the family house is haunted.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:44:32
Netflix ID: 60021097
The Counterfeiters
A Jewish master forger is shielded from the atrocities of the concentration camps by agreeing to create counterfeit currency for the Nazis.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:34:20
Netflix ID: 70083950
Carlos
Carlos the Jackal is a Venezuelan terrorist who executed scores of assassinations, abductions and bombings across Europe and the Middle East.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:45:26
Netflix ID: 70170424
Enemy at the Gates
This suspenseful drama follows a battle of wits and wills between renowned Russian sharpshooter Vassili Zaitsev and top German sniper Maj. König.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:11:03
Netflix ID: 60004450
Apollo 13
Technical troubles scuttle the Apollo 13 mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew in this chronicle of a true story.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:19:46
Netflix ID: 262866
Sleepers
Four boys from Hell's Kitchen enter a reformatory where a cruel guard abuses them. Years later, two of them avenge their tormenter and stand trial.
Released: 2018-01-18
Runtime: 02:27:07
Netflix ID: 973057
The Bridges of Madison County
When a vaguely discontented Iowa housewife meets a National Geographic shutterbug, what begins as a guarded friendship erupts into an intense affair.
Released: 2018-02-26
Runtime: 02:14:34
Netflix ID: 70150462
Happy as Lazzaro
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise's son will change his world.
Released: 2018-11-30
Runtime: 02:07:29
Netflix ID: 81004245
A Twelve Year Night
Future Uruguayan president José Mujica and his fellow Tupamaro political prisoners fight to survive 12 years of solitary confinement and torture.
Released: 2018-12-28
Runtime: 02:02:22
Netflix ID: 80185375
Ip Man 2
New in Hong Kong, martial arts instructor Ip Man perseveres and retaliates against his rivals' opposition to the Wing Chun fighting style he teaches.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:48:13
Netflix ID: 70137753
Rudy
Scrawny Rudy dreams of playing football at Notre Dame. Undaunted, Rudy works assisting the groundskeeper and joins the school's practice squad.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:53:57
Netflix ID: 60002332
Munich
A Mossad agent leads an effort to track down the Palestinian terrorists who killed a group of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:43:43
Netflix ID: 70038133
Brooklyn
The life of a young Irish immigrant forever changes when she visits 1950s New York. But when summoned home, she finds herself torn between two worlds.
Released: 2016-08-06
Runtime: 01:51:38
Netflix ID: 80037688
The Baader Meinhof Complex
A radical terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction uses extreme violence to combat what they perceive as a new fascist threat in 1970s Germany.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:29:40
Netflix ID: 70112501
Frida
This Oscar-winning biopic focuses on painter Frida Kahlo's relationship with her husband and her controversial political and sexual reputation.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:55
Netflix ID: 60024997
No
A hot-shot Chilean ad executive creates a media campaign opposing military dictator Augusto Pinochet during the referendum on his presidency in 1988.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:44
Netflix ID: 70243255
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai
After working his way up from humble beginnings, respected gangster Sultan reigns over Mumbai's underworld with honor and compassion. But when Sultan's wild protégé, Shoaib, challenges his power, the criminal landscape undergoes major upheaval.
Released: 2015-05-14
Runtime: 02:13:06
Netflix ID: 70153178
Funny Girl
Comedienne Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand, in an Oscar-winning role), an unconventional beauty from the Jewish slums of New York, dreams of stardom.
Released: 2016-05-18
Runtime: 02:35:14
Netflix ID: 60010377
The Nice Guys
When a porn star turns up dead in 1970s Los Angeles, a pair of odd-couple investigators uncovers a darkly comic case steeped in conspiracy.
Released: 2016-11-02
Runtime: 01:55:48
Netflix ID: 80049284
Howards End
When a husband, acting in his family's 'best interest,' does not accept his wife's deathbed wish, providence dictates that he pay for his duplicity.
Released: 2017-03-18
Runtime: 02:22:31
Netflix ID: 60029366
Mudbound
Two Mississippi families -- one black, one white -- confront the brutal realities of prejudice, farming and friendship in a divided World War II era.
Released: 2017-11-17
Runtime: 02:15:02
Netflix ID: 80175694
American Graffiti
On the night before two of them leave for college, four high school pals cruise around town finding love and mischief in this coming-of-age classic.
Released: 2017-12-01
Runtime: 01:52:26
Netflix ID: 70019013
Bad Education
A film director reunites with his childhood friend, who shares a short story he's written about being molested by their Catholic school teacher.
Released: 2017-12-15
Runtime: 01:45:09
Netflix ID: 70011205
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A London writer bonds with the colorful residents of Guernsey as she learns about the book club they formed during the WWII German occupation.
Released: 2018-08-10
Runtime: 02:03:58
Netflix ID: 80223371
Alexandria ... Why?
Living in Alexandria during World War II, an Egyptian teen enamored with American films dreams of making it in Hollywood.
Released: 2020-06-18
Runtime: 02:11:07
Netflix ID: 60001801
Girl, Interrupted
Diagnosed with a disorder, Susanna Kaysen is sent to a mental institution, where she enters the skewed world of people who truly belong on the inside.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:07:37
Netflix ID: 60000428
Revolutionary Road
April and Frank's marriage unravels when a plan to change their 'perfect' lives becomes their last hope to escape lives engulfed in emptiness.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:59:05
Netflix ID: 70100383
Max Manus: Man of War
During World War II, Max Manus -- who would become one of Norway's greatest war heroes -- joins the Resistance.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:53:02
Netflix ID: 70123013
A Room with a View
In this adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, Lucy travels to Florence with her chaperone in tow. There, she falls for a fellow countryman's moody son.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:52
Netflix ID: 60035684
Monster
When emotionally scarred highway hooker Aileen Wuornos shoots a sadistic client, she begins a journey to become America's first female serial killer.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:44:20
Netflix ID: 60032559
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Notorious pornographer Larry Flynt carries his free-speech campaign from lowly strip clubs to the U.S. Supreme Court in this Oscar-nominated biopic.
Released: 2017-01-28
Runtime: 02:09:29
Netflix ID: 849852
Chocolat
A single mother and her young daughter move into a peaceful French village and open an unusual chocolate shop during the height of Lent.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:01:43
Netflix ID: 60003116
Defiance
In this action-packed drama based on an extraordinary true story, four brothers protect more than 1,000 Jewish refugees during World War II.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:16:45
Netflix ID: 70101696
Out of Africa
A Denmark native shares a marriage of convenience with a womanizing baron. But when they move to Nairobi, she falls for a free-spirited hunter.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:40:54
Netflix ID: 60000019
The Doors
Oliver Stone's biopic chronicles Jim Morrison's rise from obscurity to the pinnacle of fame with the Doors, culminating in his tragic final days.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:20:36
Netflix ID: 454552
Lee Daniels' The Butler
The life of a White House butler who served under eight presidents unfolds against a backdrop of unparalleled change in American history.
Released: 2015-06-17
Runtime: 02:12:06
Netflix ID: 70266686
A River Runs Through It
Director Robert Redford's Oscar-winning, nostalgic meditation about the bonds that unite and divide families is set in Montana in the early 1900s.
Released: 2015-07-02
Runtime: 02:03:35
Netflix ID: 911839
'71
A young British soldier who's separated from his unit in Belfast at the height of Northern Ireland's Troubles must survive a night alone in the city.
Released: 2016-01-07
Runtime: 01:39:19
Netflix ID: 70301585
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Prior to World War I, Cambridge don G.H. Hardy helps Indian math prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan navigate the labyrinth of academia and racial prejudice.
Released: 2016-10-22
Runtime: 01:48:34
Netflix ID: 80084348
Félvilág
A famous prostitute's longtime housekeeper senses the delicate balance of power in the household beginning to shift when a new maid arrives.
Released: 2017-08-01
Runtime: 01:27:51
Netflix ID: 80191987
Fences
A once-promising baseball player who was denied a shot at the big leagues because of his race comes to terms with his life in 1950s Pittsburgh.
Released: 2017-08-24
Runtime: 02:18:50
Netflix ID: 80125981
Seven Years in Tibet
During World War II, an escaped POW makes his way to Tibet, where he meets the Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:16:22
Netflix ID: 1179053
Chicago
This Oscar-winning musical set in the Roaring 20s tells of Roxie Hart, who played the media with razzle-dazzle to parlay a murder rap into stardom.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:53:27
Netflix ID: 60024946
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
This gripping thriller about Cold War espionage follows an English spy as he returns to MI-6 under suspicion that he's become a Soviet operative.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:07:22
Netflix ID: 70202128
The Railway Man
Decades after World War II, a still-shattered soldier unexpectedly falls in love and sees a bizarre coincidence bring his past back into focus.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:33
Netflix ID: 70293617
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
This in-depth biopic portrays groundbreaking South African leader Nelson Mandela's fight against political oppression and virulent racism.
Released: 2015-08-31
Runtime: 02:27:04
Netflix ID: 70278999
Race
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler wanted to show the supremacy of the Aryan race, but African American athlete Jesse Owens would prove him wrong.
Released: 2016-10-26
Runtime: 02:14:34
Netflix ID: 80022604
Allied
Allied agent Max Vatan falls for a French spy during World War II. When Vatan learns she might be a double agent, he strives to prove her innocence.
Released: 2017-08-11
Runtime: 02:04:34
Netflix ID: 80112565
The Dressmaker
A disgraced, exiled woman returns from the sophistication of Paris to her provincial Australian hometown to set a few things straight.
Released: 2017-09-16
Runtime: 01:53:25
Netflix ID: 80113847
Breathe
After being paralyzed by polio at age 28, Robin Cavendish refuses to be immobile and with his loyal wife, Diana, becomes an advocate for the disabled.
Released: 2018-02-11
Runtime: 01:57:51
Netflix ID: 80144276
The Bang Bang Club
In this unflinching drama, four combat photojournalists document the escalating turmoil engulfing South Africa during the final years of apartheid.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:47:50
Netflix ID: 70120138
Velvet Goldmine
A decade after a British glam-rocker fakes his assassination and disappears, a tabloid journalist is dispatched to deconstruct the star's legend.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:03:31
Netflix ID: 5670345
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Trash-TV maven Chuck Barris has a big secret: He's a CIA assassin who kills while escorting his game show winners on their vacation prizes.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:48:48
Netflix ID: 60024947
The Sapphires
The spirit and vitality of 1960s soul music are at the core of this film about a real-life Australian aborigine singing group and their bumpy career.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:38:57
Netflix ID: 70242568
Katyn
This drama recounts the 1940 Soviet massacre of 20,000 Polish military officers, and the stories of the wives and children who survived them.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:47
Netflix ID: 70084760
Foxcatcher
Preparing for the 1988 Olympics, two sibling wrestlers cross paths with a paranoid schizophrenic millionaire in this drama based on a true story.
Released: 2015-06-19
Runtime: 02:14:36
Netflix ID: 70291433