Here we've displayed a list of the best 1930s films : It's a Wonderful Life(1946), The Green Mile(1999), Life Is Beautiful(1997), Modern Times(1936), The Great Dictator(1940), M(1931), Double Indemnity(1944), The Sting(1973), Citizen Kane(1941), I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang(1932), Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), To Kill a Mockingbird(1962) ... ...
8.6/10
Comedy, Other, Drama
USA
1946
129 Minutes
James Stewart Donna Reed Lionel Barrymore Thomas Mitchell Henry Travers Beulah Bondi Frank Faylen Ward Bond Gloria Grahame H.B. Warner Frank Albertson
angel friend wife uncle businessperson banker heartwarming emotional charming new york state store small town christmas big business suicide marriage money ambition fall rescue
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
8.6/10
Fantasy, Drama
USA
1999
189 Minutes
Tom Hanks David Morse Michael Clarke Duncan Bonnie Hunt James Cromwell Michael Jeter Graham Greene Doug Hutchison Sam Rockwell Barry Pepper Jeffrey DeMunn
guard prisoner emotional somber powerful prison household louisiana nursing home death superhuman abilities execution murder mystery quest 1930s
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
8.6/10
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1997
122 Minutes
Roberto Benigni Nicoletta Braschi Giorgio Cantarini Giustino Durano Sergio Bustric Marisa Paredes Amerigo Fontani Horst Buchholz Lidia Alfonsi Giuliana Lojodice Pietro De Silva
father mother son waiter schoolteacher nazi moving playful emotional sad bleak frightening italy concentration camp hotel household bookstore big city holocaust concentration camp
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
8.5/10
Comedy
USA
1936
89 Minutes
Charles Chaplin Paulette Goddard Henry Bergman Tiny Sandford Chester Conklin Hank Mann Stanley Blystone Cecil Reynolds
factory worker orphan police officer amusing witty playful countryside factory prison nightclub aspirations modernization man vs. machine adventure discovery escape underdog 1930s
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
8.4/10
Comedy
USA
1940
128 Minutes
Charles Chaplin Paulette Goddard Jack Oakie Reginald Gardiner Henry Daniell Billy Gilbert Maurice Moscovich Emma Dunn Grace Hayle Carter DeHaven Bernard Gorcey
barber dictator girl adviser hilarious cheeky dark incredible europe airplane hospital barbershop government offices stadium anti-semitism fascism persecution propaganda world war i loyalty
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
8.3/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Germany
1931
99 Minutes
Peter Lorre Ellen Widmann Inge Landgut Otto Wernicke Gustaf Gründgens Theodor Loos Georg John Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
murderer cop criminal creepy dark tense thrilling germany city murder fugitives crime manhunt pursuit mystery fall 1930s
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
8.3/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1944
106 Minutes
Fred MacMurray Barbara Stanwyck Edward G. Robinson Porter Hall Fortunio Bonanova Jean Heather Tom Powers Byron Barr Richard Gaines John Philliber
insurance salesman femme fatale investigator daughter melodramatic sultry tense america household los angeles train murder deception affair mystery fall 1930s
An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator.
8.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1973
129 Minutes
Paul Newman Robert Redford Robert Shaw Charles Durning Ray Walston Eileen Brennan Harold Gould John Heffernan Dana Elcar Jack Kehoe Dimitra Arliss
con artist mentor gangster amusing witty engaging chicago deception shady dealings revenge scams gambling revenge quest underdog 1930s
Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
8.3/10
Drama
USA
1941
119 Minutes
Orson Welles Joseph Cotten Ruth Warrick Everett Sloane Agnes Moorehead Dorothy Comingore Ray Collins George Coulouris William Alland Paul Stewart Erskine Sanford
news reporter billionaire journalist singer intricate profound gripping dark new york city boarding school college opera house office mansion newspapers investigative journalism recluses wealth quest rise
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.
8.2/10
Drama
USA
1932
93 Minutes
Paul Muni Glenda Farrell Helen Vinson Preston Foster Edward Ellis Allen Jenkins Noel Francis Berton Churchill
veteran prisoner guard landlady lawyer bleak brutal intense georgia diner prison chicago construction site prison injustice torture escape aspirations jealousy escape
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
8.2/10
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell Porter Hall Barbara Read Maurice Moscovich Elisabeth Risdon Minna Gombell Ray Mayer
husband wife son daughter daughter-in-law young boy bleak emotional somber family home aging poverty family marriage grief love sacrifice 1930s
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
8.2/10
Drama
USA
1962
129 Minutes
Gregory Peck Mary Badham Phillip Alford John Megna Brock Peters Robert Duvall Rosemary Murphy Paul Fix Collin Wilcox Paxton Alice Ghostley William Windom
young girl young boy lawyer neighbor defendant drunk emotional heartwarming moving small town alabama courtroom family home racism childhood class distinctions family growing up underdog 1930s
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
8.1/10
Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Romance
South Korea
2016
144 Minutes
Kim Min-hee Kim Tae-ri Ha Jung-woo Cho Jin-Woong Kim Hae-sook Moon So-ri Jeong Ha-dam Eun-hyung Jo
korean woman pickpocket japanese woman lesbian heiress intense emotional melodramatic profound brooding korea house lesbianism trust fraud money japanese occupation love forbidden love pursuit
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
8.1/10
Romance
USA
1934
105 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Clark Gable Walter Connolly Roscoe Karns Alan Hale Ward Bond
heiress reporter father husband salesman boss charming amusing playful madcap hotel bus highway countryside vehicle road love triangle road trip class distinctions prejudice
A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
8.1/10
Comedy
USA
1973
102 Minutes
Ryan O'Neal Tatum O'Neal Madeline Kahn John Hillerman P. J. Johnson Jessie Lee Fulton Jim Harrell Lila Waters Noble Willingham Bob Young Jack Saunders
girl con artist burlesque dancer maid bootlegger deputy playful confident engaging hilarious touching kansas missouri small town carnival hotel father/daughter relationship swindling road trip escape
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
8.1/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1974
131 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Faye Dunaway John Huston Perry Lopez John Hillerman Darryl Zwerling Diane Ladd Roy Jenson Roman Polanski Richard Bakalyan Joe Mantell
detective widow father sister private investigator wife disturbing sultry suspenseful gritty los angeles chinatown household car construction site corruption murder adultery redemption set-up
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
8.1/10
Comedy, Drama
Germany|USA
2014
99 Minutes
Ralph Fiennes F. Murray Abraham Mathieu Amalric Adrien Brody Willem Dafoe Jeff Goldblum Jude Law Harvey Keitel Bill Murray Edward Norton Saoirse Ronan
concierge protégé guest elderly woman lover police detective charming confident chilling hotel ski resort europe hotel room office police station hospitality sexual conquests elder care murder false accusations
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
8.1/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1939
125 Minutes
James Stewart Jean Arthur Claude Rains Edward Arnold Guy Kibbee Thomas Mitchell Eugene Pallette Beulah Bondi H.B. Warner Harry Carey Astrid Allwyn
senator politician secretary uplifting inspiring engaging washington, d.c. courtroom office politics aspirations leadership corruption underdog discovery rise 1930s
A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.
8.1/10
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
China|Hong Kong
1993
157 Minutes
Leslie Cheung Fengyi Zhang Gong Li Qi Lü You Ge Di Tong Da Ying Han Lei Zhi Yin
actor singer prostitute teacher headmaster bleak dark solemn moving china opera house school brothel beijing abuse opera friendship prostitution love forbidden love
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and will endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
8.1/10
Drama
Italy|Canada
1977
106 Minutes
Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni John Vernon Françoise Berd Tiziano De Persio Maurizio Di Paolantonio Antonio Garibaldi Alessandra Mussolini Nicole Magny Vittorio Guerrieri
housewife homosexual radio personality husband fascist stranger charming emotional passionate profound rome apartment street fascism political debate political repression homosexuality domestic life friendship forbidden love
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
8.0/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1955
92 Minutes
Robert Mitchum Shelley Winters Lillian Gish Evelyn Varden Peter Graves James Gleason Billy Chapin Sally Jane Bruce
boy girl preacher wife murderer chilling brooding creepy dark suspenseful small town west virginia river murder child abuse deception greed escape pursuit discovery
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1940
129 Minutes
Henry Fonda Jane Darwell John Carradine Charley Grapewin Dorris Bowdon Russell Simpson O.Z. Whitehead John Qualen Eddie Quillan Zeffie Tilbury Frank Sully
ex-convict sharecropper priest uncle grandfather grandmother bleak disheartening emotional oklahoma california family historical events american dream farming poverty labor strike pursuit escape quest
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
8.0/10
Drama
Denmark|Netherlands|Sweden|Germany|UK|France|Finland|Norway|Italy
2003
178 Minutes
Nicole Kidman Harriet Andersson Lauren Bacall Jean-Marc Barr Paul Bettany Blair Brown James Caan Patricia Clarkson Jeremy Davies Ben Gazzara Philip Baker Hall
outcast shopkeeper wife writer child profound dark disturbing gutsy small town dogville outlaws small-town life power struggle violence virtue sacrifice revenge escape 1930s
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1945
109 Minutes
Joan Crawford Jack Carson Ann Blyth Zachary Scott Eve Arden Herman Brix Lee Patrick Moroni Olsen Jo Ann Marlowe George Tobias
restaurant owner daughter mother police detective melodramatic tense glendale, calif. murder social standing mother/daughter relationship investigation the great depression mystery sacrifice 1930s
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
8.0/10
Musical
USA
1965
174 Minutes
Julie Andrews Christopher Plummer Eleanor Parker Richard Haydn Peggy Wood Charmian Carr Heather Menzies Nicholas Hammond Duane Chase Angela Cartwright Debbie Turner
governess captain child singer nun soldier heartwarming touching mansion austria cemetery church car mountain world war ii nazism song and dance education politics romance
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
8.0/10
Comedy
USA
1944
118 Minutes
Cary Grant Raymond Massey Priscilla Lane Peter Lorre Jack Carson Josephine Hull Jean Adair James Gleason Grant Mitchell John Alexander Edward Everett Horton
writer wife aunt brother neighbor uncle madcap quirky new york city brooklyn, n.y. family home insanity marriage murder poison discovery love 1930s
A writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to get married. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
8.0/10
Musical, Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
1939
101 Minutes
Judy Garland Frank Morgan Ray Bolger Bert Lahr Jack Haley Billie Burke Margaret Hamilton Charley Grapewin Pat Walshe Clara Blandick
young girl witch dog lion wizard scarecrow creative touching emotional farm village emerald city kansas oz courage song and dance journey friendship magic discovery
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.
8.0/10
Comedy
USA
1936
95 Minutes
William Powell Carole Lombard Alice Brady Eugene Pallette Gail Patrick Alan Mowbray Jean Dixon Mischa Auer Robert Light Pat Flaherty Franklin Pangborn
socialite butler sister mother father protégé hysterical madcap confident new york city family home dump wealth employment family dysfunction unlikely romance class distinctions transformation love rise
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1942
124 Minutes
Ronald Colman Greer Garson Philip Dorn Susan Peters Reginald Owen Henry Travers Margaret Wycherly Bramwell Fletcher Arthur Margetson Jill Esmond Marta Linden
veteran showgirl fiancée sibling doctor government official emotional passionate england mental institution music hall household small town amnesia world war i car crash inheritance election relationships love
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
8.0/10
Biography, Drama
USA
2005
144 Minutes
Russell Crowe Renée Zellweger Paul Giamatti Craig Bierko Paddy Considine Bruce McGill Ron Canada David Huband Connor Price Ariel Waller Patrick Louis
boxer manager max baer wife uplifting emotional new jersey new york city boxing ring office family home boxing salvation marriage poverty class distinctions james j. braddock underdog rise transformation
The story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world.
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