#retro movies
Hey. Sorry, I’ve been taking a break for personal reasons. Anyway, this was an idea I had a while ago, plus I was watching a lot of retro Japanese movies. So if Comet and Moon had their own movie, it would be like Lone wolf and Cub. #starvstheforcesofevil❌DO NOT REPOSED❌
While doing posts on contemporary regional Indian period movies, I made a rough list of Indian period films. These are listed below. Some are historicals but the bulk fall into the 19th and 20th century. The list is fairly rough so feel free to add more, especially if they are in languages other than Hindi.
Pic 1: Vidyapati (1937), Pic 2: Jeevan Smriti (2013)
Pre-Mauryan
Maurya Empire/Buddhist/Post Buddhist
Vidyapati (Bengali?/Hindi, 1937)
Ashok Kumar (Tamil, 1941)
Veer Kunal (Hindi, 1945)
Ashad Ka Ek Din (Hindi, 1971)
Siddhartha (English, 1972)
Utsav (Hindi, 1984)
Trishagni (Hindi, 1988)
The Cloud Door (Hindi, 1994)
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (English, 1996)
Asoka (Hindi, 2001)
Anahat (Marathi, 2003)
Mirch (Hindi, 2010) (in part)
Rudhramadevi (Telugu, 2015)
See also wikipedia.
Mughal Period/Post Mughal
Pukar (Hindi 1939)
Anarkali (1935, 1953,1955, 1966, various languages)
Meera (Tamil/Hindi, 1945)
Mughal-e-Azam (Hindi, 1960)
Taj Mahal (Hindi, 1963)
Ghashiram Kotwal (Marathi, 1976)
Jodhaa Akbar (Hindi, 2008)
Urumi (Malayalam, 2011)
Aravaan (Tamil, 2012)
Bajirao Mastani (Hindi, 2015)
Rama Madhav (Marathi, 2014)
Colonial India/Early 20th century/Pre-independence
Devdas (various languages, 1928-2013)
Pioli Phukan (Assamese, 1955)
Charulata (Bengali, 1964)
Chameli Memsaab (Assamese, 1975)
Shatranj ke Khilari (Hindi, 1977)
Junoon (Hindi, 1977)
Umrao Jaan (Hindi, 1981,2006)
Massey Sahib (Hindi, 1985)
Mogamul (Tamil, 1995)
Vanaprastham (Malayalam, 1999)
Hey Ram (Tamil/Hindi, 2000)
Pinjar (Hindi, 2003)
Noukadubi, Bengali, 2011)
Makaramanju (Malayalam, 2011)
Bal Gandharva (Marathi, 2011)
Paradesi (Tamil, 2013)
Rang Rasiya (Hindi, 2014)
Kaaviya Thalaivan (Tamil, 2014)
Taptapadi (Marathi, 2014)
Rajkahini (Bengali, 2015)
1950s
Shadows of Time (Bengali, 2004)
Parineeta (Hindi, 2005)
Vaagai Sooda Vaa, (Tamil, 2011)
Bombay Velvet (Hindi, 2015)
1970s
Border (Hindi, 1997)
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (Hindi, 1998)
Om Shanti Om (Hindi, 2007)
Kaalbela (Bengali, 2009)
Natarang (Marathi, 2010)
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (Hindi, 2010)
Shala (Marathi, 2011)
Barfi! (Hindi, 2012)
Dutta vs Dutta (Bengali, 2012)
1980s
Subramaniapuram (Tamil, 2008)
The Dirty Picture (Hindi, 2011)
Manjadikuru (Malayalam, 2012)
Dwaar (Assamese, 2013)
Amara Kaaviyam (Tamil, 2014)
1990s
Timepass (Marathi, 2014)
David (Tamil, 2013)
Haider (Hindi, 2014)
Dum Laga ke Haisha (Hindi, 2015)
Also see short wiki list.
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - 1964
Babes in Toyland - 1934
The Man Who Laughs - 1928
Old Yeller - 1957
Carefree - 1938
Reefer Madness - 1936
Metropolis - 1927
He Who Gets Slapped - 1924
Le Squelette Joyeux- 1898
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner - 1967
The Night Before Christmas - 1913
To Sir, with Love(1967)
Rest in peace Sir Sidney L. Poitier (⭐February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022†)
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You know how in Ocarina of Time, the people of Hyrule all experience seven years of Crap™ while Link sleeps in the Sacred Realm, and when he wakes up he realizes Ganondorf has taken over everything and the whole world has gone to hell so he has to fix it? And then at the end how Zelda hopes that sending him back to his childhood will allow him and everyone else to live the happy, peaceful lives they were meant to, implying that this time Ganondorf won’t gain power and nothing will go to hell in the first place?
OR you know how in Back to the Future Part II, Doc and Marty end up in the absolute nightmare that 1985 Hill Valley has become since Biff went back to ‘55 and gave himself the almanac, but then when the guys have fixed everything back in '55 the people of the original*/repaired '85 have no memory of Biff’s Hell '85™ because they never actually lived through it in their eventual experiences of the final/Real timeline?
…sometimes (no pun intended) I wonder if we’re currently living in the Hell Timeline or Hell Universe but our time-travelling hero just hasn’t fixed things yet before winding back the clock (maybe even flying around the earth to make it spin in retrograde??), resetting all our memories, and allowing us to wake up one day never having gone through the last [insert number] years.
(And then my head inevitably starts hurting )
