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1930s Drama Movies

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Baby Face(1933)

1h 16min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 46 votes)

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Grand Illusion(1937)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 54min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 283 votes)

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

City Lights(1931)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 27min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
4.2/5 (with 992 votes)

In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller.

All Quiet on the Western Front(1930)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 13min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 321 votes)

A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Together with several other young German soldiers, he experiences the horrors of war, such evil of which he had not conceived of when signing up to fight. They eventually become sad, tormented, and confused of their purpose.

Heidi(1937)

3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.

Captains Courageous(1937)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 55min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 64 votes)

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.

A Christmas Carol(1938)

3.6/5 (with 53 votes)

Classic Charles Dickens holiday tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser's miser who has a huge change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present, and future.

Grand Hotel(1932)

1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 125 votes)

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Lost Horizon(1937)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 12min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 83 votes)

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town(1936)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 55min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 138 votes)

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Hôtel du Nord(1938)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 37min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.7/5 (with 61 votes)

A young couple, Renée and Pierre, take a room at the Hôtel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but after shooting Renée, Pierre lacks the courage to finish the job and flees. Another guest, Monsieur Edmond, rescues her. When Renée gets out of the hospital she is hired as a waitress at the same hotel. Monsieur Edmond falls in love with her, but Renée is still thinking of Pierre.

Of Human Bondage(1934)

1h 23min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 47 votes)

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

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Stage Door(1937)

1h 32min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 41 votes)

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.

The Scarlet Empress(1934)

3.5/5 (with 50 votes)

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.

Cavalcade(1933)

1h 50min | Drama, War
2.8/5 (with 49 votes)

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2002.

Test Pilot(1938)

1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Marius(1931)

3.6/5 (with 31 votes)

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fanny, who helps her sell cockles just outside the bar; and various old salts. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.

La Chienne(1931)

1h 31min | Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 46 votes)

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.

The Champ(1931)

1h 26min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 20 votes)

A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.

David Copperfield(1935)

3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

Charles Dickens' classic tale of an orphaned boy's fight for happiness and the colorful characters who help and hinder him.

Boys Town(1938)

1h 36min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 34 votes)

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.

Little Lord Fauntleroy(1936)

1h 42min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.

The Great Ziegfeld(1936)

3.2/5 (with 46 votes)

Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

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.

Make Way for Tomorrow(1937)

1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 76 votes)

At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?

The Life of Emile Zola(1937)

1h 56min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 49 votes)

Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.

Alexander Nevsky(1938)

1h 49min | Drama, History, War
3.6/5 (with 82 votes)

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.

Unsichtbare Gegner(1933)

1h 27min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Blonde Venus(1932)

1h 33min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 51 votes)

American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1938)

3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

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