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Movies Set in 1931

Public list by WPS with 42 movies or TV shows/series

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Road to Perdition(2002)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,574 votes)

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

Gandhi(1982)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h 11min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 1,000 votes)

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

Hugo(2011)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 3,405 votes)

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

Lawless(2012)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 55min | Crime, Drama, Western
3.5/5 (with 1,399 votes)

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.

Henry & June(1990)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 16min | Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 77 votes)

While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.

The Legend of Bagger Vance(2000)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 6min | Drama, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 385 votes)

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.

Lion of the Desert(1981)

2h 53min | History, War, Drama
3.7/5 (with 73 votes)

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.

April and the Extraordinary World(2015)

3.5/5 (with 134 votes)

France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Directed by Franck Ekinci

Water for Elephants(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1,204 votes)

In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

The Artist(2011)

FSK: 6+ years
| 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.

Cabaret(1972)

3.7/5 (with 375 votes)

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

Death Hunt(1981)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 36min | Action, Western, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 74 votes)

Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a good deed that will put him in trouble.

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Belle Époque(1992)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Shanghai Express(1932)

3.5/5 (with 74 votes)

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

Aria(1987)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Music
2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.

Zelig(1983)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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, ...

Dangerous Liaisons(2012)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

Rabbit-Proof Fence(2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 34min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 143 votes)

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.

Fabian: Going to the Dogs(2021)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.

Christopher and His Kind(2011)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 38 votes)

In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt.

The Whisperer in Darkness(2011)

3.2/5 (with 38 votes)

Written in 1931, H.P. Lovecraft's iconic genre-bending tale of suspense and alien terrors is brought to life in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s like Frankenstein, Dracula and King Kong. Using its Mythoscope™ process — a mix of vintage and modern techniques — the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society expands on Lovecraft's original tale while still bringing you unparalleled authenticity. Horror and science fiction collide in the adventure of Albert Wilmarth, a folklore professor at Miskatonic University, as he investigates legends of strange creatures rumored to dwell in the most remote mountains of Vermont. Wilmarth’s investigation leads him to a discovery of horrors quite beyond anything he ever imagined, and ends in a desperate attempt to escape the remote New England hills with his life and sanity intact.

Directed by Sean Branney - With Stephen Blackehart, Barry Lynch

The Legend of Bhagat Singh(2002)

2h 35min | Crime, Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 24 votes)

Born in British India, Bhagat Singh witnesses numerous atrocities during his childhood and grows up to become one of the most fearless freedom fighters in the country.

The Sea Wall(2009)

1h 55min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 17 votes)

The film centers around a young French widow and her two adolescent children attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930's. Their efforts are hampered each year by the presence of the sea, which invariably floods the fields with saltwater and wipes out the crops. In desperation, the mother realizes that their only hope lies in the construction of a sea wall to prevent continued flooding, but the mother must cut a swath through the local bureaucracy in an almost Sisyphean attempt to make this happen. Meanwhile, her obstinate daughter, Suzanne, draws the romantic obsessions of a well-to-do Chinese gentleman, Monsieur Jo; though he could easily provide a way out, the possibility of a romantic relationship between Jo and Suzanne could just as easily fall prey to local racial prejudices that would damage or ruin the lives of both.

Kano(2014)

3h 5min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

Directed by Umin Boya - With Masatoshi Nagase

Anna Pavlova(1983)

2h 35min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably difficult, but dreams of a ballerina career make her stubbornly deal with adversity. Anna’s performance and determination does not go unnoticed by the celebrated choreographer Marius Petipa, who helps to stage Pavlova's examination performance. Such a gift becomes a starting point for Ani in the world of big ballet, her fast-paced career, position in high society and world fame make her forget about close friends and especially her faithful Michel Fokine, who invested a lot of energy in the formation of a ballerina.

Directed by Emil Loteanu - With Galina Belyayeva, Svetlana Toma, Vsevolod Larionov, Sergey Shakurov, Valentina Ganibalova, James Fox, ...

Heavens Fall(2006)

1h 45min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.

Directed by Terry Green - With Timothy Hutton

I Am a Camera(1955)

1h 38min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz, encounters trouble.

Adalen 31(1969)

3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

A 1969 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg. It depicts the 1931 Ådalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill district of Ådalen, killing five people, including a young girl.

Fabian(1980)

1h 50min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Fabian is a 1980 West German film directed by Wolf Gremm. It is based on the novel Fabian, the Story of a Moralist (1931) by German author Erich Kästner. The film was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film receive a nomination.

Little Man, What Now?(1934)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.

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