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Movies: Best "depression era" Movies


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Mary Poppins Returns(2018)

FSK: 0+ years
| 2h 11min | Fantasy, Kids & Family, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1,494 votes)

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

Liam(2001)

1h 30min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.

The Great McGinty(1940)

1h 22min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

Thieves Like Us(1974)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 3min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.

The Man in Possession(1931)

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.

Directed by Sam Wood

RKO Production 601: The Making of 'Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World'(2005)

2h 39min | Documentary

An in-depth look at the genesis, production, and legacy of King Kong, one of the most influential films ever made.

Rainbow Over Broadway(1933)

52min | Drama

Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.

The Battlers(1994)

1h 40min | Drama, TV Movie

Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.

Directed by George Ogilvie - With Gary Sweet

Köyhät, nöyrät ja häpeämättömät(1999)

54min | Documentary

Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

Starlight Hotel(1987)

1h 33min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

During the Great Depression, Kate (Greer Robson) is a 13-year-old girl living on New Zealand's South Island. When her mother dies and her father is offered a job in Wellington on North Island, Kate is sent to live with an aunt. The girl runs away to find her father, hopping onto a boxcar and befriending a fellow fugitive, Patrick (Peter Phelps), an emotionally battle-scarred WWI veteran fleeing the authorities after injuring a repo man. Pretending to be father and daughter, Patrick and Kate use each other for cover as they make their way across New Zealand, sleeping under the stars and championing the rights of destitute farmers and homeless squatters whose fortunes have been wiped out by economic hardship.

Directed by Sam Pillsbury