521 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1930s
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The Bells Go Down
England The 1940s The 1930sComedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
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Inviati speciali
🇪🇸 Spain 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940s The 1930sAn Italian film from 1943.
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To Be or Not to Be
🇵🇱 Poland The 1930sDuring the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Random Harvest
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sHe had found love - lost it - and now had found it again! — An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.
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Mrs. Miniver
England The 1940s The 1930s"Mrs. Miniver" is more than a picture... It's dramatic. It's tender. It's human. It's real. — English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II.
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In Which We Serve
🇬🇷 Greece The 1940s The 1930sYou'll Never Forget... In Which We Serve — The story of the HMS Torrin, from it's construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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Crossroads
🇫🇷 France The 1930sWhere women wait to seal your fate! — A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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They Flew Alone
England 🇦🇺 Australia The 1930sSHE LED THE PARADE FROM SILK TO KHAKI! -- This girl who bolted a white-collar job to win her place in the air force...it's the amazing story of Amy and her Jim -- The Flying Mollisons. — The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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Alibi
🇫🇷 France The 1930sIn 1930s France a bar hostess (Margaret Lockwood) helps a man (James Mason) prove himself innocent of murder.
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Raza
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sThe troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Damián Churruca, the Spanish hero of the Battle of Trafalgar; from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). (In 1950, a new cut of the film was released with less ideological depth and ten minutes shorter.)
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Hard Steel
England The 1930sA steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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G.P.U.
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇮 Finland 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940s The 1930sOlga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.
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Suspicion
England The 1930sIn his arms she felt safety...in his absence, haunting dread! — Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance. The suspicion seems confirmed when Johnnie's business partner dies under mysterious circumstances.
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Man Hunt
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sBritish hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
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'Pimpernel' Smith
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sThe man the Gestapo hates! — Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith (Howard) takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
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Love on the Dole
England The 1930sDepressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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So Ends Our Night
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1930sTwo thrilling Romances in a story of high Adventure! — An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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Freedom Radio
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sHitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
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Venus on Trial
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930s The 1920sA sculptor, an enemy of modern art, sets an example. He sculpts a statue of Venus in the style of the Greek antiquity and buries it in a forest. When it's dug up in 1930, it's considered to be a 2 000 year old, antique statue.
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Homecoming
🇵🇱 Poland The 1930sA Nazi propaganda film which aims to justify the invasion of Poland by portraying the plight of ethnic Germans in Poland who were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were saved by the intervention of the German army.
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The Mortal Storm
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sThe Most Exciting Picture! — The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
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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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