521 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1930s
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Boys' School
๐ซ๐ท 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! โ 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! โ 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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Blockade
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1930sRomance under fire! โ A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
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Crackerjack
England The 1930sLondon has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
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Comrades at Sea
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1930s1936: Fahnrich Peter serves on a torpedo boat. Peter loves Carmita, the pretty sister of a fellow seaman. But then his superior officer falls in love with her, too, who offers to marry Carmita and who accepts. Disappointed, Peter's relationship to his superior turns sour, but eventually improves after recognition of his heroic behaviour handling a fire on board his ship. Later on, his unit is sent off to fight in Spain against the Reds. In those same waters, Carmita and her father are taken prisoner by the Communists when they commandeer their cruise ship. Peter's commander receives the order not to take action against the Spanish communist pirates, but Peter and his buddies take it upon themselves to take the situation in hand. However, Peter and his buddies find themselves prisoners of the Commies, too and now his superior must decide what to do about it.
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The Stars Shine
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1930sGerman all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
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My Irish Molly
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1930sBinkie Stuart, a child star whose career briefly flourished before the outbreak of war in 1939, takes the titular role in this heart-warming musical charting the adventures of a little orphan girl in the difficult days of pre-war Ireland. Starring alongside Hollywood siren Maureen O Hara in an early role, Britain's answer to Shirley Temple plays a spirited young girl left in the clutches of a cruel guardian aunt.
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Hawaii ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1930sMurderous Spies invade Olympic Games! โ Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
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L'alibi
๐ซ๐ท France The 1930sParis, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
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Another Dawn
England The 1930sLIPS ON LIPS with a thrill of love you'll never forget โ Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancรฉ; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
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Lady Killer
๐ซ๐ท France The 1930sLucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again. But he's not so sexy without his uniform, and Madeleine and him do not belong to the same milieu.
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The Spanish Earth
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1930sA propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The film would have been seen by those making it as a documentary.
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One in a Million
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1930sAmerican theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
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Love Under Fire
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1930sA supense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
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Cafรฉ Metropole
๐ซ๐ท France The 1930sAn American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
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Stolen Holiday
๐ซ๐ท France The 1930sA young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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The Last Train from Madrid
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1930sThe first flaming love drama of the Spanish Civil war. โ The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
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Spain in Flames
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1930sA compilation propaganda film produced during the Spanish Civil War.
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Kleine Scheidegg
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1930sA mountain film set around the popular ski pass in the 1930s.
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La vie parisienne
๐ซ๐ท France The 1900s The 1930sA rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's 'La vie parisienne' which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a young Frenchman. But Mendoza's puritanical son forbids the marriage. Mendoza and the actress's friends conspire to change his mind and convert him to 'Parisian life.'
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Youth of the World
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1930sThis Nazi propaganda film covers the 1936 Winter Olympics that were held in Germany.
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The Good Fairy
๐ญ๐บ Hungary The 1930sIn 1930s Budapest, naรฏve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
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Toni
๐ซ๐ท France The 1920s The 1930sIn the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.
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