1930s

12 Mighty Orphans | United States of America
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IMDB
6.9 (5522 votes)
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

The Thirteenth Floor | Germany| United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.1 (66132 votes)
Budget
16,000,000.00$
Los Angeles. A wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.

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IMDB
7.2 (79401 votes)
Budget
19,800,000.00$
In 1930’s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

Swallows and Amazons | United Kingdom
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6.1 (2764 votes)
Four children dream of escaping the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on an island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they get there they discover they may not be alone… The battle for ownership of a lonely island teaches them the skills of survival, the value of friendship and the importance of holding your nerve.

Map of the Human Heart | France| Canada| United Kingdom| Australia
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IMDB
7.1 (2992 votes)
Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.

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5.8 (9745 votes)
In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned contribution to an international art exhibit is considered blasphemous. While Campion and Lindsay debate, Estella finds herself drawn to the three beautiful models sitting for the painter's current work, freethinking Sheela, sensual Pru and virginal Giddy.

Red Joan | United Kingdom
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IMDB
6.3 (7482 votes)
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

The Green Mile | United States of America
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IMDB
8.6 (1084111 votes)
Budget
60,000,000.00$
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

In Like Flynn | Canada| Australia
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IMDB
5.1 (704 votes)
Budget
20,000,000.00$
A mostly true account of future Hollywood star Errol Flynn's sea adventures in the early thirties, sailing from Australia to Papua in search of gold, along with his best friend Rex, a former Canadian smuggler; Dook, a handy English gentleman; and Charlie, a grumpy old sailor.

Johnny Dangerously | United States of America
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IMDB
6.5 (15176 votes)
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Cradle Will Rock | United States of America
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IMDB
6.8 (8616 votes)
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

Me and Orson Welles | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.7 (10497 votes)
Budget
25,000,000.00$
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

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