1930s

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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IMDB
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.

Everyone's Hero | United States of America| Canada
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IMDB
5.7 (7575 votes)
Budget
35,000,000.00$
A boy begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close.

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IMDB
6.8 (76707 votes)
Budget
25,000,000.00$
A biopic about the life of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz. Sources say the story will follow Mankiewicz's tumultuous development of the script for “Citizen Kane” — which would go on to be considered one of the best films of all time.

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IMDB
7.6 (4482 votes)
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.

Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
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IMDB
6 (422 votes)
A telling of the story of the famous U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart who attempted to fly solo around the world in 1937. She disappeared during the process.

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