Movies Set in The 1930s

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Oppenheimer(2023)

4.1/5 (with 2,359 votes)

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Directed by Christopher Nolan - With Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, ...

The Imitation Game(2014)

PG-13

| 1h 53min | History, Drama, Thriller, War

4.0/5 (with 7,736 votes)

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

Directed by Morten Tyldum - With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Mark Strong, Allen Leech, ...

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One Life(2023)

1h 50min | Drama, History, War

4.0/5 (with 29 votes)

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.

Directed by James Hawes - With Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, ...

King Kong(2005)

PG-13

| 3h 7min | Adventure, Drama, Action

3.4/5 (with 3,520 votes)

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

Directed by Peter Jackson - With Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Jamie Bell, ...

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The Handmaiden(2016)

| 2h 25min | Thriller, Drama, Romance / Love

4.1/5 (with 1,901 votes)

In 1930s Korea, a swindler and a young woman pose as a Japanese count and a handmaiden to seduce a Japanese heiress and steal her fortune.

Directed by Park Chan-wook - With Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Moon So-ri, Kim Hae-suk, ...

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Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981)

1h 55min | Adventure, Action

4.0/5 (with 5,804 votes)

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With John Rhys-Davies, Karen Allen, Denholm Elliott, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, ...

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Cloud Atlas(2012)

| 2h 52min | Drama, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 3,291 votes)

A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

Directed by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski - With Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, ...

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Life Is Beautiful(1997)

PG-13

| 1h 56min | Comedy, Drama

4.2/5 (with 5,868 votes)

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Directed by Roberto Benigni - With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Horst Buchholz, Amerigo Fontani, ...

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Blonde(2022)

NC-17

| 2h 46min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 590 votes)

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

Directed by Andrew Dominik - With Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Julianne Nicholson, Evan Williams, Xavier Samuel, ...

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Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

| 3h 47min | Adventure, Drama, History, War

4.0/5 (with 1,261 votes)

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

Directed by David Lean - With Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, ...

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Citizen Kane(1941)

| 1h 59min | Mystery, Drama

4.0/5 (with 2,550 votes)

Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Directed by Orson Welles - With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Warrick, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, ...

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom(1984)

| 1h 58min | Adventure, Action

3.7/5 (with 4,670 votes)

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, ...

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

PG-13

| 2h 46min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 5,674 votes)

I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Directed by David Fincher - With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Tilda Swinton, Mahershala Ali, ...

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Papillon(1973)

| 2h 31min | Crime, Drama

3.9/5 (with 807 votes)

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner - With Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris, ...

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Hold Your Breath(2024)

1h 34min | Horror, Thriller, Drama

3.1/5 (with 76 votes)

In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.

With Sarah Paulson, Annaleigh Ashford, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Bill Heck, Amiah Miller

Lolita(1997)

| 2h 17min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 901 votes)

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Directed by Adrian Lyne - With Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Dominique Swain, Frank Langella, Suzanne Shepherd, Ben Silverstone, ...

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The Untouchables(1987)

1h 59min | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 2,541 votes)

Young Treasury Agent Eliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jim Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.

Directed by Brian De Palma - With Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Richard Bradford, Jack Kehoe, Robert De Niro, Sean Connery, ...

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Murder on the Orient Express(2017)

PG-13

| 1h 54min | Drama, Mystery, Crime

3.4/5 (with 4,502 votes)

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh - With Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucy Boynton, Josh Gad, ...

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Christopher Robin(2018)

| 1h 44min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.7/5 (with 1,366 votes)

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

Directed by Marc Forster - With Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Mark Gatiss, Oliver Ford Davies, Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, ...

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Life(1999)

| 1h 48min | Comedy, Crime

3.3/5 (with 330 votes)

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

Directed by Ted Demme - With Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Nick Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Anthony Anderson, Bernie Mac, ...

Stardust(2007)

PG-13

| 2h 7min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance / Love, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 1,790 votes)

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.

Directed by Matthew Vaughn - With Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais, ...

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Cinderella Man(2005)

PG-13

| 2h 24min | Romance / Love, Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 956 votes)

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, in the 1920s following his retirement, makes a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state.

Directed by Ron Howard - With Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine, Bruce McGill, ...

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Public Enemies(2009)

| 2h 20min | Action, Crime

3.3/5 (with 1,993 votes)

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.

Directed by Michael Mann - With Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Jason Clarke, Channing Tatum, Billy Crudup, ...

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Young Frankenstein(1974)

| 1h 46min | Comedy

4.0/5 (with 1,376 votes)

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

Directed by Mel Brooks - With Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Kenneth Mars, ...

Legends of the Fall(1994)

2h 13min | Drama, Western, Romance / Love, War, Action

3.7/5 (with 1,296 votes)

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas, Gordon Tootoosis, ...

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Giant(1956)

| 3h 21min | Drama, Western

3.8/5 (with 286 votes)

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

Directed by George Stevens - With Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Mercedes McCambridge, ...

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Malcolm X(1992)

PG-13

| 3h 22min | Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 698 votes)

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

Directed by Spike Lee - With Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee, ...

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The Aviator(2004)

PG-13

| 2h 50min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 2,412 votes)

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, ...

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Doctor Zhivago(1965)

PG-13

| 3h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.8/5 (with 473 votes)

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Directed by David Lean - With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, ...

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Chaplin(1992)

PG-13

| 2h 23min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 450 votes)

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

Directed by Richard Attenborough - With Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Moira Kelly, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller, Kevin Kline, ...

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Movies Set in The 1930s

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Oppenheimer(2023)

The Imitation Game(2014)

One Life(2023)

King Kong(2005)

The Handmaiden(2016)

Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981)

Cloud Atlas(2012)

Life Is Beautiful(1997)

Blonde(2022)

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

Citizen Kane(1941)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom(1984)

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

Papillon(1973)

Hold Your Breath(2024)

Lolita(1997)

The Untouchables(1987)

Murder on the Orient Express(2017)

Christopher Robin(2018)

Life(1999)

Stardust(2007)

Cinderella Man(2005)

Public Enemies(2009)

Young Frankenstein(1974)

Legends of the Fall(1994)

Giant(1956)

Malcolm X(1992)

The Aviator(2004)

Doctor Zhivago(1965)

Chaplin(1992)

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