1930s Movies

Jim McNeely thrust into the vibrant and brutal West Texas oilfields in 1939 and works his way through the ranks to ultimately become a formidable...

Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her...

In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a young soldier on the frontlines reflects on the pain of loss and the senselessness of war. In a trench near...

A variety of scientific subjects, including the laboratory of a plastic surgeon in London, and his method for applying permanent makeup; a new...

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the melancholic knight Don Quixote of La Mancha and...

Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight...

Set in 1934 Siam, the story involves a young pregnant woman named Nualchan who's searching for her missing husband. She comes to stay in the spooky...

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.

When a coal miner in 1930s Utah hides the loss of his job from his family, the quiet deception sets off a slow-burning collapse.

In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative. They tell the story of Parisian...

Pre-WWII Czech democratic politician Milada Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Opposing...

1938, Ethiopa. Facist troops are ravaging the country. 10-year-old Emelia embarks on a treasure hunt across the Horn of Africa to find her father, an...

Using exclusively archival footage, Erwin Leiser traces the rise and collapse of the Third Reich, from Adolf Hitler’s early years to the...

Spain, 1931. Under the Second Republic, women are eligible, but cannot vote. Victoria Kent and Clara Campoamor, the first women in the Spanish...

Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime...

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life. Filmed live during its opening night...

In 1938 a group of fascists led by the general Gaetano Maria Barbagli decides to invade the planet of Mars.

Hannes is employed at the Mont Blanc Observatory; the only outside connection is a pilot and Hella over the radio. Hella ascends the mountain but her...

The story, set in the 1930s, takes place in the peaceful summer atmosphere of a small town, where the famous barrel organ player Ferdinand Houra...

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.