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Foreign Correspondent
England 🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1930sThe thrill spectacle of the year! — The European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Johnny Jones, an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put a fresh spin on the drowsy dispatches emanating from overseas, has a nose for a good story—which promptly leads him to the crime of fascism and Nazi Germany's designs on European conquest. In attempting to learn more about a seemingly noble peace effort, Jones walks into the middle of an assassination, uncovers a spy ring and—not entirely coincidentally—falls in love.
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Night Train to Munich
England 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sLaughs! Thrills! Excitement! — Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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21 Days
The 1930sExcitingly Together! — After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
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Kitty Foyle
Pennsylvania The 1930sThe natural history of a woman — Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
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Contraband
England The 1930s The 1940sWhen a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
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The Proud Valley
Wales The 1930sIn a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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Four Sons
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1930sFour Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
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The Earl of Chicago
England Illinois The 1930sCan a Lord of England be a Czar of the underworld? — A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Arise, My Love
🇪🇸 Spain 🇫🇷 France The 1930sHere's the gay, glorious story of a war correspondent and a war ace...a romance that could happen only in 1940! — In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.
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Green Hell
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇵🇪 Peru The 1930sA group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
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The Man I Married
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sAn American (Joan Bennett) vacations in Europe with her husband (Francis Lederer) and watches him turn into a Nazi.
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Wunschkonzert
🇪🇸 Spain 🇩🇪 Germany Atlantic Ocean The 1930sGerman propaganda film spinning a story around the popular radio broadcast "Wunschkonzert".
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Days of Hope
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sSpanish Civil War, 1937. A platoon of Republican soldiers plans to stop the advance of the rebel troops by bombing a bridge on the road to Zaragoza, near the city of Linás. With the close collaboration of the peasants of the area, the soldiers try to overcome the continuous bombardments and endure the harsh and tireless opposition of the powerful enemy…
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Ski Patrol
🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sIn 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
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Menaces...
The 1930s"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
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The Siege of the Alcazar
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sSet during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
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Enemies
🇵🇱 Poland The 1930sThe focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
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Escape to Glory
England The 1930sForget All The Action Pictures You Ever Saw... And Brace Yourself For A New Kind Of Thrill! — The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers--one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. Constance Bennett is glamorous, Pat O'Brien is boozy, John Halliday is pensive, and everybody else (except for the German medico) is plain fearful.
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The Knight of Kruja
🇦🇱 Albania The 1930sVenice Film Festival 1940
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The Shining Path
🇷🇺 Russia The 1930sTanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
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Under Your Hat
England 🇫🇷 France The 1930sIn pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
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The Rules of the Game
🇫🇷 France The 1930sA weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
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Ninotchka
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia 🇹🇷 Turkey The 1930sGarbo Laughs — A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Made for Each Other
New York The 1930sHeartbreak...! — A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
California The 1930sThe strange case of murder by magic! — Charlie's investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
England The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1870s The 1880sAt The Top Of The Year's "Ten Best" - The picture that earns for 1939 a proud place in motion-picture history! — A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
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Q Planes
England The 1930sAn eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.
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Of Mice and Men
California The 1930sShe was made for love... and tragedy. — An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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Wings of the Navy
The 1930sFOR ALL THE WORLD TO WITNESS THAT AMERICA WILL NOT BE UNPREPARED! — Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Disputed Passage
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940s"Love...marriage...give them up...they're not for we men of science! " — A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
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Fast and Furious
New Jersey New York The 1930sCrime doesn't pay with these two super sleuths on the job! — Joel and Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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The Fisherman's Son
The 1930sOskars lives in a typical sea-side village, but wants to break free of his father’s rule and the old ways – he dreams of new, large nets, an ice-cellar, and the fishermen’s independence from the fish wholesaler. At first, no one wants to believe in Oskars’ plans, except for happy-go-lucky Fredis. With the help of Fredis, Oskars builds a new fish trap, gaining admiration from even the old fishermen.
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Buck Rogers
The 1930sBUCK ROGERS BATTLES INVASION FROM FOREIGN PLANETS!...Space ships exploded by giant ray machines! Mountains crumbled by disintegrating machines! — Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
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Tractor Drivers
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1930sThe story takes place in a Soviet placed in what is now Ukraine. A mechanic arrives in the Soviet, lead by a young independent woman driving tractors and, between many comedy sketches and propaganda mottoes, a love comes to light.
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L'Espagne vivra
The 1930sIn July 1936, the Spanish people resist the offensive by Franco’s army, backed by Italian and German fascists, aimed at conquering the country's major cities. Although many of the recruits to the new Republican Army are well trained, weapons and ammunition remain in short supply due to the non-intervention agreement initiated by France and signed by Italy and Germany. Yet the latter two countries continue to provide Franco’s army with military support and commit their troops on Spanish soil, while the fighters of the International Brigades return home.
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Spies of the Air
England The 1930sSet just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
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La tradition de minuit
The 1930sFive people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens when they discover a dead body in a bedroom upstairs.The five people all become suspects.
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Piccoli naufraghi
🇪🇹 Ethiopia The 1930sDuring the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the shipwreck, they are castaway on a desert island...
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Blondie
Missouri The 1930sBlondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sThe First part of Olympia, a documentary about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin by German Director Leni Riefenstahl. The film played in theaters in 1938 and again in 1952 after the fall of the Nazi Regime.
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Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
The 1930sThe Second part of Olympia, a documentary about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin by German Director Leni Riefenstahl. The film played in theaters in 1938 and again in 1952 after the fall of the Nazi Regime.
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Angels with Dirty Faces
New York The 1930s The 1920sThe saga of America’s dirty faced kids... and the breaks that life won’t give them! — In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
New York California England 🇫🇷 France The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sAn American Cavalcade! — Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
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The Baker's Wife
The 1930sIn this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work anymore. Therefore, the villagers, who initially laughed at his cuckoldry, take the matter very seriously (they want the bread) and organize a plan to find Aurelie and to bring her back to the bakery.
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Bank Holiday
England The 1930sA 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
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Boys' School
🇫🇷 France The 1930sIn a college, three friends form a secret society. There objective - going to America. A night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them see a man coming out from a wall. Then the day after he talks about it, he disappears. Then the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.
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The Citadel
Wales England The 1930s The 1920sSecrets of a doctor as told by a doctor! — Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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A Yank at Oxford
England The 1930sThe Roving Romances Of A Two-Fisted American! — Lee Sheridan, a young American comes to study at Oxford University, but is instantly disliked by the other students, because of his brash and big-headed attitude. After several scrapes with the college professors, and the wife of the local book seller, he becomes a hero when he joins the rowing club, and coxes the boat crew to beat Cambridge, in the annual boat race.
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Kentucky
Kentucky The 1930sYoung lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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