1930s

Everyone's Hero | United States of America| Canada
Genre
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.

Genre
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.

Genre
IMDB
7.2 (35833 votes)
Budget
7,920,000.00$
Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome Otterbourne is facing a libel suit brought by Linnet, Salome's daughter Rosalie wants to protect her mother, American Andrew Pennington has been embezzling from the Ridgeway family, and former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort is upset that Linnet stole her fiance, Simon, away from her. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot must unravel the mystery when Linnet (and some of the others) turn up dead.

Once Upon a Time in America | United States of America| Italy
Genre
IMDB
8.4 (292301 votes)
Budget
20,000,000.00$
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Draupadi Unleashed | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
4.9 (221 votes)
Budget
1,000,000.00$
Set in the lush and romantic era of 1930’s British India, DRAUPADI UNLEASHED centers on sixteen-year-old Indira who finds herself torn between true love, her duty to follow through with an arranged marriage and the powerful allure of a mysterious guru. Through her heartbreaking journey to self-discovery, long-held secrets are brought to light and Indira discovers the strength within herself to break free. In a story that mixes magical realism and gorgeous surroundings with the harsh realities of a patriarchal society, this beautifully told tale of a young woman at a crossroads in her life offers a rare look at aristocratic Indian society in the early part of the 20th Century - one that will resonate with audiences today.

Untitled David O. Russell Film | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.1 (59292 votes)
Budget
80,000,000.00$
Revolves around a doctor and lawyer who form an unlikely partnership.

Genre
IMDB
7.3 (64492 votes)
Budget
87,000,000.00$
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

Six Minutes to Midnight | United Kingdom
Genre
IMDB
5.9 (5393 votes)
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

Genre
IMDB
6.5 (2122 votes)
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.

In Dubious Battle | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.1 (3430 votes)
Budget
10,000,000.00$
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—'courage, never submit, or yield'.

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