Modern times

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows modern times

poster Naya Daur
Naya Daur
(4.0/5)
173mn - Drama
Shankar lives in a remote village in rural India with his mother and sister, Manju, and drives a horse-carriage for a living. The main employer in the region is a kind-hearted businessman Maganlal. When M…
poster The Great Rights
The Great Rights
13mn - Animation
A cartoon explaining the American Bill of Rights and Constitution. A man imagines a "nightmare world" without these documents, where Orwellian thugs censor and arrest with impunity. When reminded of the B…
poster The Yesterday Machine
The Yesterday Machine
(5/5)
85mn - Sci-Fi, Horror
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
poster Men O' War
Men O' War
(3.6/5)
19mn - Comedy
Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a bo…
poster The Electric Hotel
The Electric Hotel
(3.3/5)
9mn - Fantasy, Animation
An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
poster The Day the Earth Stopped
The Day the Earth Stopped
89mn - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the world's major capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.
poster Quo Vadis?
Quo Vadis?
(3.0/5)
137mn - Drama, History
"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- …
poster The Coming
The Coming
0mn - Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When the biblical apocalypse begins to unfold, a group of young friends must rely on The Book as their only guide to navigate the chaos and destruction consuming the world around them, fighting for surviv…
poster Nerves
Nerves
(3.3/5)
110mn - Drama
The film tries to capture the "nervous epidemic" caused by war and misery which "drives people mad". This unique portrait of the life in 1919 Germany, filmed on location in Munich, describes the cases of …
poster The Weekend
The Weekend
(3.7/5)
0mn -
A hilarious and spontaneous ensemble film shot in real time about eight former summer campers who take over a rental cottage in upstate New York for one last crazy weekend.
poster By the Cross
By the Cross
49mn - Drama, History
A costume drama from Roman times. Three out of the original six reels survive.
poster A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire
A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire
12mn - Documentary
A Trip Down Market Street is a 13-minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car as it travels down San Francisco’s Market Street. A virtual time capsule from over 10…
poster His Mother's Thanksgiving
His Mother's Thanksgiving
15mn - Drama, Family
This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city. When he achieves “fame and fort…
poster 5G: The Reckoning
5G: The Reckoning
81mn - Horror
Eight college students trapped in their dorm during a global pandemic discover that their isolation is no accident when they realize they cannot connect to the outside world despite access to the school's…
poster The Greater Call
The Greater Call
10mn -
Women’s weepies were a nickelodeon staple in the early years of movies. In these one-reel dramas, women trapped in no-win situations confronted heart-wrenching decisions: Should a young woman wed her penn…
poster Three's a Crowd
Three's a Crowd
(3.1/5)
60mn - Comedy
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his te…
poster Linotype: The Film
Linotype: The Film
(3.8/5)
75mn - Documentary
When revolutionary printing technology meets the passionate craftsmen who operated it, a moving tribute emerges to the Linotype machine that transformed global communication and literacy forever. Through …
poster Perfect People
Perfect People
(2.8/5)
100mn - Short, Comedy, Drama
After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In order to become more attractive they submit themselves not only under modern diets and physical education bu…
poster Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre
Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre
(3.4/5)
3mn - Documentary
Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New York.
poster The One You're With
The One You're With
(2.8/5)
88mn - Comedy, Romance
A girl running from her past has a one-night stand with a guy who's stuck in his ways, only to wake up the next morning to discover they are forced to live together due to a nation-wide state of emergency.
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