521 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1930s
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The Angel with the Trumpet
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sA long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.
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Monsieur Verdoux
๐ซ๐ท France The 1930s The 1920sA Comedy of Murders. โ The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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If Winter Comes
England The 1930sA.S.M. Hutchinson's beloved classic of English countryside life becomes a screen masterpiece ! โ It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school textbooks, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries someone else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with her husband Tony. Mabel is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.
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Marriage in the Shadows
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1930sSet during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Semitism. Believing that he can protect her if she becomes his wife, Hans convinces Elisabeth to marry him. In the following years, as Hans's career thrives, Elisabeth awaits the end of the Nazi terror which bars her from public life. When the situation worsens in 1938 with the Kristallnacht pogrom, Elisabeth decides to leave the country, but Hans, who still believes he can protect her, convinces her to stay with him.
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The Locket
England The 1930sHer Mysterious Secret Wrecked 3 Men's Lives! Not love, not money...but a haunting hunger drove her to lie, cheat, steal. Why? IT'S THE STRANGEST SECRET EVER TOLD! โ A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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The Searching Wind
District of Columbia ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sWith a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.
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Brief Encounter
England The 1930sA story of the most precious moments in woman's life! โ Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
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The House on 92nd Street
New York ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940s The 1930sThe F.B.I.'s own tense, terrific story behind the protection of the ATOMIC BOMB! โ The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
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Confidential Agent
England ๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1930sYou'll see the screen cook when "The Lover" meets "The Look"!!! โ During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
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Molly and Me
England The 1930sA vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
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This Happy Breed
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sIn 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.
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The Seventh Cross
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1930sHis greatest role! โ In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
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In Our Time
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1930sTheir Love was all these things โ It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.
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Hotel Reserve
๐ซ๐ท France The 1930sDeath Signs the Register โ A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
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Address Unknown
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1930sIt Startled Millions! NOW...It Becomes the Great Screen Drama of Our Time! โ When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
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Mr. Emmanuel
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1930sAn elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuelโs efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.
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Lake Placid Serenade
๐จ๐ฟ Czechia The 1930sGlittering with gay musical scenes! Glistening with brilliant spectacles! Gleaming with romantic gaiety! โ On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.
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Lassie Come Home
Scotland The 1930sA Thrilling Saga Of Courage And Loyalty ! โ Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
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Above Suspicion
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1930sIt happened on a honeymoon! โ Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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The Fallen Sparrow
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1930sImprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1930sThunderous! Tender! Touching! โ Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordanโwho has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that eraโhas been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress
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Dream
๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1930sThe spiritual and material misery of a group of people inhabiting the hotel of the title during the War.
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Mission to Moscow
District of Columbia England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1930sOne American's Journey into the Truth โ Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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The Shipbuilders
Scotland England The 1930sThe Shipbuilders is a 1943 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Clive Brook, Morland Graham and Nell Ballantyne. The film is set in a Clyde shipyard in the build-up to the Second World War. It was based on a novel by George Blake.
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Variety Jubilee
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sThis domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
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