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1920 (film)

1920 (2008) is a Hindi supernatural horror film directed by Vikram Bhatt, starring Rajneesh Duggal and Adah Sharma as a couple in a haunted Yorkshire-shot mansion; possession plot loosely based on The Exorcist, resolved via Hanuman Chalisa; grossed ₹14 crore and spawned a franchise.

1920 London

1920 London is a 2016 Hindi supernatural horror film, the third in the 1920 franchise, directed by Tinu Suresh Desai, starring Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra, and Vishal Karwal, released 6 May 2016.

1920: Horrors of the Heart

1920: Horrors of the Heart is a 2023 Hindi supernatural horror film, Krishna Bhatt's directorial debut in the 1920 franchise, starring Avika Gor, Rahul Dev, and Barkha Bisht; released 23 June 2023, it earned ₹13.61 Cr net in India.

1921 (2018 film)

1921 is a 2018 Hindi supernatural horror film directed by Vikram Bhatt, a reboot of his 1920 series, starring Zareen Khan and Karan Kundrra as a couple fighting a haunted Yorkshire mansion; released 12 January 2018, it flopped with ₹15.94 crore India net.

1922 (2017 film)

1922 (2017) is a Netflix horror drama directed and written by Zak Hilditch, adapting Stephen King's 131-page novella from Full Dark, No Stars. Thomas Jane plays Nebraska rancher Wilfred James, who murders his wife Arlette (Molly Parker) with son Henry's help and is haunted by rats; released October 20, 2017.

1941 (film)

1941 is a 1979 Steven Spielberg comedy about Los Angeles invasion panic after Pearl Harbor, written by Zemeckis, Gale, and Milius, starring Belushi and Aykroyd, with three Oscar nominations and a $90 million worldwide gross.

1942: A Love Story

1942: A Love Story is a 1994 Hindi musical romantic drama by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, set during the Quit India Movement, starring Anil Kapoor and Manisha Koirala, with R.D. Burman's soundtrack and the first Indian film in Dolby sound.

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture is a 2022 documentary by Sharon "Rocky" Roggio about the word "homosexual" entering the 1946 Revised Standard Version Bible in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and its aftermath.

1969 (film)

1969 (film) is a 1988 American drama directed by Ernest Thompson, starring Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, and Winona Ryder; two friends come of age during the Vietnam War era.

1969 in film

1969 in film: the transition year between the studio system and New Hollywood. Midnight Cowboy won Best Picture as the only X-rated film; Easy Rider, Butch Cassidy, The Wild Bunch, and Z defined the year.

1971 (2007 film)

1971 is a 2007 Hindi war drama directed by Amrit Sagar, starring Manoj Bajpayee, about six Indian soldiers escaping Pakistani POW camps after the 1971 war; it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi and went viral online in 2020.

1971: Beyond Borders

1971: Beyond Borders (2017) is a Malayalam war film by Major Ravi, fourth in the Major Mahadevan series, starring Mohanlal in a double role as Mahadevan and his father Sahadevan; a Kurukshetra prequel on the 1971 Indo-Pak war that flopped despite a 15-crore budget.

1978 in film

1978 in film: the year Grease topped the box office, The Deer Hunter won Best Picture, Cannes honored Olmi, and Halloween, Superman, and Days of Heaven were released.

1979 in film

1979 in film: the year of Apocalypse Now, Alien, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Mad Max; Kramer vs. Kramer swept the 52nd Oscars, Hollywood's average negative cost hit $9 million, and Miramax was founded.

1980s in film

The 1980s in film was the decade when the Hollywood blockbuster, home video, and CGI became the dominant structure of the movie business, as independent and national cinemas responded.

1981 in film

1981 in film: the year of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Chariots of Fire, and Reds; Chariots of Fire won Best Picture at the 54th Academy Awards, MTV launched, and Superman II topped the box office at $216.4M.

1983 (film)

1983 (൧൯൮൩) is a 2014 Malayalam sports drama, Abrid Shine's directorial debut, starring Nivin Pauly as Rameshan, a village cricketer who lives his dream through his son between India's 1983 and 2011 World Cup wins.

1984 (2023 film)

1984 (2023 film), also known as Nineteen Eighty-Four, is a dystopian science fiction film by Finnish director Diana Ringo blending Orwell's 1984 with Zamyatin's We; shot in Moscow in Russian, released digitally November 15, 2023, starring Aleksandr Obmanov as D503.

1984 (advertisement)

Apple's "1984" television commercial, created by Chiat/Day and directed by Ridley Scott, introduced the Macintosh during Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984, aired nationally only once, and became one of advertising's most celebrated spots.

1985 in film

1985 in film: the cinema year when Back to the Future topped the US box office, the first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Young Sherlock Holmes introduced the first fully CG film character, and Kusturica won the Cannes Palme d'Or.

1987 in film

1987 in film: year of over 500 releases including The Last Emperor (9 Oscars), Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Dirty Dancing, and The Princess Bride; Beverly Hills Cop II topped the box office at $153.7 million domestic.

1987: When the Day Comes

1987: When the Day Comes is a 2017 South Korean historical drama directed by Jang Joon-hwan. It depicts the death of Park Jong-chul and the June Democratic Uprising.

1988 in film

1988 in film: Hollywood's record ~$4.4 billion box office year of Rain Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Die Hard, Akira, and Cinema Paradiso, marked by the 22-week WGA strike and The Last Temptation of Christ controversy.

1989 in film

1989 in film: the year of Batman ($251.2M domestic), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Soderbergh's Palme d'Or-winning sex, lies and videotape, plus the Sony–Columbia and Time Warner mergers.

1990 in film

1990 in film: Ghost led the US box office at $217.6M, Home Alone finished at $285.8M domestic; the 63rd Oscars honored Dances with Wolves, Misery, and GoodFellas; Wild at Heart won the Palme d'Or; IMDb's precursor launched.

1990s in film

The 1990s in film: the decade of big-budget Hollywood blockbusters, the rise of CGI (Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Titanic), booming independent cinema, home video and DVD, and revivals in British, French, and world cinema.

1992 in film

1992 in film: the year's releases, box office (Aladdin, The Bodyguard, Basic Instinct), Oscars (Unforgiven), Dolby Digital debut, home video boom, and critical consensus on Howards End.

1993 in film

1993 in film was a year dominated by Jurassic Park at the box office and defined critically by Schindler's List, which won 7 Oscars including Best Picture.

1994 in film

1994 in film: releases and industry events of the year, including The Lion King, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction (Palme d'Or), Clerks, and The Shawshank Redemption; Forrest Gump won Best Picture, and True Lies was the first $100-million-budget film.

1995 in film

1995 in film: the year of Toy Story, the first feature-length computer-animated movie ($394.4M worldwide), Braveheart's Best Picture win, the DreamWorks SKG launch, and the Dogme 95 manifesto.