373 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1930s
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The Cardinal
Massachusetts 🇻🇦 Holy See The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sA motion picture that spans two decades of conflict and drama as it tells the story of a young American and his rise to prince of the church. — A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Alabama The 1930sThe rare film story of a father who must expose his children to a small town's outraged passions… and can only protect them with his love. — Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
California The 1960s The 1930s The 1910sSister Sister, Oh So Fair! Why Is There Blood All Over Your Hair? — Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.
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Walk on the Wild Side
Louisiana The 1930sA side of life you never expected to see on the screen! — At the Doll House, a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty with whom he travelled from Texas and who is now the Doll House newest recruit.
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Convicts 4
New York The 1940s The 1930sThey Blow the Big House Apart! — This movie is about the progression of John Resko's (Ben Gazzara) character as he is commuted from the death sentence for killing a man to life in prison. Not only is he transferred to a new facility, but his guard (Stuart Whitman), who believes that man can be rehabilitated, has requested a transfer from death row
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Mad Dog Coll
New York The 1930s The 1920sKiller Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.
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Splendor in the Grass
Kansas The 1930s The 1920sThere is a miracle in being young... and a fear — A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
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Murder, Inc.
New York The 1930sThe Super-Corporation of Crime! — Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man Reles.
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Hell to Eternity
Hawaii The 1930s The 1940sThe Marines' Battle Cry of the South Pacific! — Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his foster family is interned at the Manzanar camp for Japanese Americans, while he enlists in the Marines, where his ability to speak Japanese becomes a vital asset. During the Battle of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
New York The 1930s The 1920sThe Wildest Mobster of the Roaring Twenties! — Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
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Wild River
Tennessee The 1930sThe wild language…the wild hungers…the wild furies! — A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.
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I Aim at the Stars
New Mexico 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1950s The 1930s The 1920sFROM THE EARTH TO THE STARS...this is the story of Wernher von Braun...the man who thrust the world into the Space Age. — The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man's adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the brain behind the V-2 rockets which blasted London in World War II; his was also the brain which led America into the development and the launching of space satellites.
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Louisiana 🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sSuddenly, last summer, Cathy knew she was being used for something evil! — The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
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The Five Pennies
New York The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sDixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then tragedy strikes when their daughter contracts polio.
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The FBI Story
Illinois Louisiana The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sYou are crouched in a basement stairway opposite a theatre in Chicago. Keep your eyes on that FBI man across the street. He has set the trap for deadly public enemy, John Dillinger... — A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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Auntie Mame
Connecticut The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sTops the Best-Seller! Tops the Play! The One and Only! — Ten-year-old orphan Patrick Dennis has come to live with his marvelously madcap Auntie Mame, who lives life to the hilt. "Life is a banquet," Mame says, "and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
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The Bonnie Parker Story
Texas The 1930sCigar Smoking Hellcat of the Roaring Thirties — In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
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Baby Face Nelson
Illinois The 1930sthe baby-face punk who became the FBI's PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1! — Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
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The Tarnished Angels
Louisiana The 1930sThe Book They Said Could Never Be Filmed! — In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
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Beau James
New York The 1930s The 1920sHe took New York for its wildest joyride! — The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
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The Joker Is Wild
Illinois The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThe Most Electric Performance That Ever Shocked and Fascinated an Audience! — Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis (Frank Sinatra) has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker (Ted de Corsia). A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack (Eddie Albert), who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.
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Giant
Texas The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sNOW HE'S TOO RICH TO KILL. — Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
New York The 1930sA Girl Can Lift A Fellow To The Skies! — The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
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The Rainmaker
Kansas The 1930sIt's about the magic that makes a woman beautiful when she's wanted by a man! — Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secrect yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!
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The Night of the Hunter
West Virginia The 1930sThe wedding night, the anticipation, the kiss, the knife, BUT ABOVE ALL...THE SUSPENSE! — In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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