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Children of Troubled Times
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sThe young poet Xin Baihe flees Shanghai with his friend, Liang. Liang soon joins the resistance against the Japanese invaders, but Xin chooses to pursue a relationship with a glamorous and westernized widow in Qingdao. After hearing that Liang has been killed, Xin has a change of heart and rushes to join the war effort.
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The Big Road
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sSix young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army
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Hyde Park Corner
England The 1930s The 18th CenturyA dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.
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An Elephant Never Forgets
The 1930sA collection of animals goes to school; their teacher, a goose, asks them several questions, during which time an ape, sitting behind an elephant, keeps tormenting the elephant. The teacher leaves the room, putting a turtle in charge. While she's gone, things go fine for a while, but the ape starts an all-out book tossing brawl. As the teacher returns, everyone suddenly stops, and although the room is a shambles, she congratulates them on behaving and dismisses them for the day.
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A Feather in Her Hat
England The 1920s The 1930sBEFORE YOU KISS AGAIN...SEE THE SWEETEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD — After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
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Tovaritch
🇫🇷 France The 1930sPlaywright Jacques Deval directed this 1935 adaptation of his own stage comedy Tovaritch. Set in Paris, the story revolves around Princess Tatiana (Irene de Zilaby) and General Mikail (Andre Lefaur), two members of the Russian nobility who'd been forced to relocate to France after the Revolution. Though the regal couple has been entrusted with the Imperial crown jewels, they'd sooner starve to death than betray the late Czar by selling the gems. As a result, they're reduced to taking jobs as servants in the home of a wealthy but somewhat zany family. Robert E. Sherwood's Americanized version of Deval's Tovaritch was filmed by Warner Bros. in 1937, with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer.
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Royal Cavalcade
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sMade in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
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The Black Cat
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1930sThings you never said before nor even dreamed of! — After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
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Angele
The 1930sAngèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a naive young woman who is seduced and abandoned. It is based on the novel Un de Baumugnes by Jean Giono.
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Ways of Love
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Kid Millions
New York 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930sHE HAD PLENTY OF DOLLARS AND NO SENSE! — A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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The Richest Girl in the World
The 1930s$30,000 A DAY TO SPEND...and nothing to live for! — Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
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Little Man, What Now?
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sA 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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Our Daily Bread
The 1930sWe live! We love! We fight! We hate! What don't we do for - OUR DAILY BREAD — John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
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Red Ensign
Scotland The 1930sDavid Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
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Wonder Bar
The 1930sWarner Bros.' Wonder Show of the Century! — Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Massacre
Illinois The 1930sRodeo stunt rider Richard Barthelmess (as Joe "Chief" Thunder-Horse) thrills crowds at the Chicago "World's Fair" celebrating a century of progress in Native American Indian affairs. An assimilated Sioux, Mr. Barthelmess receives word that back on the Reservation his father is dying. Barthelmess takes time out to fulfill a sexual fantasy with shapely blonde Claire Dodd (as Norma), then drives to the Reservation with his happy-go-lucky manservant. On the way, he is attracted to red-skinned Ann Dvorak (as Lydia). Barthelmess discovers his forgotten brethren are being mistreated, and need help...
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Hitler's Reign of Terror
The 1930sEarly anti-nazi documentary. — A documentary meant to show Americans what had been going on in Germany since Hitler's rise, centered on a fact finding trip by Cornelius Vanderbilt, with newsreel footage of book burnings and such.
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42nd Street
New York The 1930sThe Greatest Musical hit the Screen Has Ever Known! — A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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Gold Diggers of 1933
New York The 1930sThe Biggest Show On Earth! — Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy songwriter Brad saves the day by funding a new Depression-themed musical for the girls to star in, but when his stuffy high-society brother finds out and threatens to disown Brad, Carol and her gold-digging friends scheme to keep the show going, hooking a couple of millionaires along the way.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
New York England The 1930s The 1920sWarner Bros.' Supreme Thriller — The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Dinner at Eight
New York The 1930sAn ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
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Cavalcade
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sTHE PICTURE OF THE GENERATION! — 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.
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The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
The 1930sChristmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild (in the full version, they sing the title song, but this has been censored in some versions due to outdated stereotypes). He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.
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Apart From You
🇯🇵 Japan The 1930sFor Apart from You, Mikio Naruse turned his camera on the lives of working women, which he would continue to do throughout his long career. In this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for the director, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
The 1930sGirls! There's a new passion in your life! — An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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Gabriel Over the White House
District of Columbia The 1930sThe sensation of a nation! — A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
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Berkeley Square
England The 1930s The 18th CenturyA young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
New York The 1930sA New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Bosko's Picture Show
Nevada California England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1930s The 1890sBosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.
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Hans Westmar
The 1930s The 1920sNazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.
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Give a Man a Job
The 1930sA three-minute short made in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration that urges employers to hire the unemployed.
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Hitler Youth Quex
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sOur Flag Leads Us Forward — Nazi film based upon the life and death of Hitler Youth Heini Volker, killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.
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Victor and Victoria
The 1930sAspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick colleague, the slap-stick actor Viktor, at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works as a female impersonator. By chance, Susanne is then "discovered" by an agent, who thinks she′s really a man. She becomes famous and goes on tour to London. But when the local womanizer Robert catches on to her game, Viktor then has to jump in for Susanne as "Viktoria".
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One Sunday Afternoon
The 1930s The 1900sHE WONDERED FOR YEARS if he'd married the wrong girl... then fate told him astoundingly! — Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
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The Yellow Cruise
The 1930sThe film tells the expedition leaving Beirut in Lebanon to rally China through the ancient Silk Road with half-tracks vehicles, between 1931 and 1932.
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Looking Forward
England The 1930sYour HEART KNOWS when a picture is GREAT! — Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
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To Whom Does the World Belong?
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sKuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly thereafter his family is evicted from their apartment. Now homeless, the family moves into a garden colony of sorts with the name “Kuhle Wampe.”
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Shanghai Express
Shanghai The 1930sMany Men Had Loved Her -- but only one had been loved in return ! — A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
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American Madness
New York The 1930sThe Great American Picture of Today! — Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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The Most Dangerous Game
The 1930sThey saw the heads of hunted men in Zaroff's trophy room! — When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
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The Mummy
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 1920sIt Comes to Life! — An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Illinois Georgia The 1930s The 1920sSix sticks of dynamite that blasted his way to freedom … and awoke America’s conscience! — A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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This Is the Night
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 1930sWhen Claire Mathewson's (Thelma Todd) husband Stephen (Cary Grant) comes back unexpectedly from the 1932 Summer Olympics, where he was supposed to compete in the javelin throw, he discovers the train tickets for a romantic Venice getaway she has planned with her lover Gerald (Roland Young). Gerald's friend Bunny (Charles Ruggles) lies and says that the tickets are actually for Gerald and his wife. With Stephen still suspicious, Gerald must find a fake wife to go to Venice with him. He tries to hire the actress Chou-Chou (Claire Dodd), but since her boyfriend is a jealous man, she gives the job to out-of-work Germaine (Lili Damita), who needs the 2000 franc fee to keep from starving. At first, Gerald thinks she is too demure, but she soon convinces him that she can pretend to be a glamorous wife.
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Mickey's Good Deed
The 1930sMickey's White Christmas — Mickey is playing Christmas carols on a standup bass for change. Alas, all he gets is screws, rocks, and other useless stuff. He plays outside a rich man's window, and the spoiled brat kid inside decides he wants Pluto. Mickey isn't selling, but when his bass gets destroyed by a passing sleigh and he sees a house full of orphans with no presents, he changes his mind. Mickey plays Santa to the kids. Meanwhile, the brat has been torturing Pluto; his father finally has enough and throws Pluto out and spanks the child. Pluto and Mickey are reunited, and as a bonus, the kid has tied the Christmas turkey to Pluto's tail. (Also included: Chip an' Dale 1947, Lend a Paw 1941)
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Million Dollar Legs
California The 1930sIt's Insane -- It's Joyous — A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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If I Had a Million
The 1930sYOU'VE OFTEN SAID IT! NOW SEE WHAT HAPPENS! — An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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