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Movies Set in 1930

Public list by WPS with 41 movies or TV shows/series

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Babylon(2022)

R
| 3h 8min | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 1,186 votes)

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

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.

Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

R
| 3h 49min | Drama, Crime
4.2/5 (with 2,468 votes)

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.

Legends of the Fall(1994)

3.7/5 (with 1,114 votes)

An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.

Neighbors(2014)

R
| 1h 37min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 3,204 votes)

A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.

1922(2017)

1h 42min | Horror, Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1,203 votes)

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

Murder on the Orient Express(1974)

PG
| 2h 8min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 600 votes)

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Mank(2020)

R
| 2h 13min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 685 votes)

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

The Color Purple(1985)

PG-13
| 2h 34min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 725 votes)

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain(2021)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Drama, History, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 170 votes)

The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.

The Artist(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 40min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 1,462 votes)

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman(1951)

3.3/5 (with 44 votes)

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.

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Borsalino(1970)

2h 6min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 89 votes)

In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.

Splendor in the Grass(1961)

NR
| 2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 107 votes)

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Zelig(1983)

PG
| 1h 19min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 372 votes)

Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Susan Sontag, Saul Bellow, Bruno Bettelheim, Josephine Baker, ...

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag(2011)

2h 24min | Drama, Action, History
3.6/5 (with 38 votes)

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag is Part one of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.

Directed by Wei Te-sheng - With Masanobu Andō, Landy Wen, Vivian Hsu, Dean Fujioka, Nolay Piho, Umin Boya, ...

The Nun's Story(1959)

NR
| 2h 29min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 76 votes)

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge(2011)

2h 12min | Action, Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 29 votes)

After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men." Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge is Part two of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.

Directed by Wei Te-sheng - With Masanobu Andō, Landy Wen, Vivian Hsu, Dean Fujioka, Nolay Piho, Umin Boya, ...

Murder!(1930)

1h 42min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.0/5 (with 51 votes)

When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.

Inserts(1976)

1h 57min | Drama, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.

Directed by John Byrum - With Bob Hoskins, Jessica Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, Stephen John Davies, Veronica Cartwright

In Like Flynn(2018)

R
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Action, Adventure
2.6/5 (with 18 votes)

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.

Montevideo, God Bless You!(2010)

3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.

Despair(1978)

1h 59min | Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

Wings of Courage(1996)

3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

In 1920's South America a small group of Americans struggle to prove they can offer a reliable airmail service over the Andes. When one of the young pilots crashes on such a flight he has to try and get back to civilization on foot. Back home, his wife and colleagues start to fear the worst.

See You in Montevideo(2014)

2h 21min | Adventure, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 18 votes)

A football team from Belgrade, former Republic of Yugoslavia gets a chance to go to the First World Football Championship, but things get complicated along the way.

One Christmas(1994)

1h 26min | Drama, Kids & Family
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..

Directed by Tony Bill - With Katharine Hepburn

Chittagong(2012)

1h 45min | War, Action, Drama
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Jhunku, a 14-year-old youth in 1930s British Bangladesh, embarks on a journey to determine where he belongs.

Lucky Lady(1975)

PG
| 1h 58min | Crime, Comedy
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.

Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey(2010)

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

1930, British India: In the province of undivided Bengal lies the sleepy, peaceful port of Chittagong. In this unassuming little town a revolution is about to begin; a revolution which will forever wake all of Chittagong and inspire the entire nation.

Just Imagine(1930)

2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.

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