There’s something to be said about the classics and in 2020, films are going back to old Hollywood and being reinvented for modern times. It started with 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which took place in 1960s Los Angelos and Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt starred as washed-up actors who were trying to make a name for themselves. Based on the success of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, many films are revisiting classic Hollywood and these are the ones you should check out ahead of awards season.

Rebecca

Based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, the film was first released in 1940 and has since been adapted many times. The 2020 Netflix adaptation is the latest and it’s based on a newly married women who arrives at her husband’s estate and ends up being haunted by her husband’s first wife, Rebecca. The film stars Lily James, Armie Hamemr, Kristen Scott Thomas, Tom Goodman-Hill, Keeley Hawes, Sam Riley, and Ann Dowd.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

This film takes place in 1927 Chicago and it’s about Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) and other Black musicians who struggle with race, music, relationships, and the exploitation of Black recording artists. This also happens to be Chadwick Boseman’s, who plays the horn player, last film. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will be released on December 18.

Mank

Mank follows Oscar-winning Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz and the development of the Orson Welles classic. Gary Oldman stars as the social critic and alcoholic screenwriter, Mank, who revaluates 1930s Hollywood and tries to finish the Citizen Kane script. The black and white film will be released in select theaters in November and will be available for streaming on Netflix on December 4.

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There’s something instantly comforting about period dramas, and they’re the perfect genre to watch on a gloomy, rainy day. That’s why it doesn’t come as a surprise that we have a bunch of period movies coming our way this fall, and here are a few you shouldn’t miss for the world.

Enola Holmes (September 23)

If your favorite part about period dramas are the great costumes, make sure to check out Netflix’s take on the Sherlock Holmes tales. It centers on his fictional teenage sister Enola, played by Millie Bobby Brown.

Rebecca (October 21)

Netflix has another period drama in store this fall—the latest retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel about a young newlywed woman battling the ghosts of her husband’s past.

Death on the Nile (October 23)

Kenneth Branagh’s adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels are slowly growing into a franchise, and Death on the Nile is the latest mystery he’ll try to unravel this fall.

Ammonite (November 13)

This Oscar contender stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan and centers on an intense relationship between British paleontologist Mary Anning and a young woman recovering from a personal tragedy in her small coastal town.

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There’s something to be said about the classics and in 2020, films are going back to old Hollywood and being reinvented for modern times. It started with 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which took place in 1960s Los Angelos and Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt starred as washed-up actors who were trying to make a name for themselves. Based on the success of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, many films are revisiting classic Hollywood and these are the ones you should check out ahead of awards season.

Rebecca

Based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, the film was first released in 1940 and has since been adapted many times. The 2020 Netflix adaptation is the latest and it’s based on a newly married women who arrives at her husband’s estate and ends up being haunted by her husband’s first wife, Rebecca. The film stars Lily James, Armie Hamemr, Kristen Scott Thomas, Tom Goodman-Hill, Keeley Hawes, Sam Riley, and Ann Dowd.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

This film takes place in 1927 Chicago and it’s about Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) and other Black musicians who struggle with race, music, relationships, and the exploitation of Black recording artists. This also happens to be Chadwick Boseman’s, who plays the horn player, last film. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will be released on December 18.

Mank

Mank follows Oscar-winning Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz and the development of the Orson Welles classic. Gary Oldman stars as the social critic and alcoholic screenwriter, Mank, who revaluates 1930s Hollywood and tries to finish the Citizen Kane script. The black and white film will be released in select theaters in November and will be available for streaming on Netflix on December 4.

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There’s something instantly comforting about period dramas, and they’re the perfect genre to watch on a gloomy, rainy day. That’s why it doesn’t come as a surprise that we have a bunch of period movies coming our way this fall, and here are a few you shouldn’t miss for the world.

Enola Holmes (September 23)

If your favorite part about period dramas are the great costumes, make sure to check out Netflix’s take on the Sherlock Holmes tales. It centers on his fictional teenage sister Enola, played by Millie Bobby Brown.

Rebecca (October 21)

Netflix has another period drama in store this fall—the latest retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel about a young newlywed woman battling the ghosts of her husband’s past.

Death on the Nile (October 23)

Kenneth Branagh’s adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels are slowly growing into a franchise, and Death on the Nile is the latest mystery he’ll try to unravel this fall.

Ammonite (November 13)

This Oscar contender stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan and centers on an intense relationship between British paleontologist Mary Anning and a young woman recovering from a personal tragedy in her small coastal town.

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