373 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1930s
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
California The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe frank, revealing story of Lillian Roth's life! Best-seller now a film sensation. — Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo Van Fleet), Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman (Ray Danton), he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
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The Glenn Miller Story
New York The 1930s The 1920sTheir Love Made Such Wonderful Music! — A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
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The Pride of St. Louis
Missouri Texas The 1930s The 1940sThe Story of Dizzy Dean! — The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Mr. Imperium
California The 1930s The 1950sA pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. The both will have their clandestine romance interfered with by their changing circumstances.
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Georgia The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sA minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
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Native Son
Illinois The 1930sI didn't mean to KILL her! — Author Richard Wright portrays his novel's Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur trapped in an accidental murder.
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We Were Strangers
🇨🇺 Cuba The 1930sAn explosive story of violent lives...lived dangerously! — China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the city's cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolutionaries, they begin digging.
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Give Us This Day
New York The 1930sOn the outs in Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
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The Big Cat
Utah The 1930sTHRILL TO WILD MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE...OUTDOOR MAGNIFICENCE...YOUNG LOVE! — 1933. A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by drought, old fights and a cougar. He turns out to be pivotal in all of these.
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Cry of the City
New York The 1940s The 1930sFrom the heart of its people comes the ... cry of the city. — Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
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Call Northside 777
Illinois The 1940s The 1930sIt couldn't happen... but it did! — In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
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Portrait of Jennie
New York Massachusetts The 1930sThe screen's most romantic team! — A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
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The Babe Ruth Story
New England The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe incredible life... the spectacular thrills... the fabulous times of America's best-loved hero....... — The baseball player (William Bendix) goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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Tenth Avenue Angel
New York The 1930sThrilling story of people that live and love in the shadows of Gangland! — Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and Steve out of trouble.
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It's a Wonderful Life
New York The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sIt's a wonderful laugh! It's a wonderful love! — A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Maryland The 1930s The 1910sThe Vibrant, Pulsing Story of a Woman Escaping Her Past! — In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
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The Searching Wind
District of Columbia 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 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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Scarlet Street
New York The 1930sThe things she does to men can end only one way - in murder! — Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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Dillinger
Indiana The 1920s The 1930sA Cold Blooded Bandit and a Hot Blooded Blonde ... who stopped at Nothing! — The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
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The Great Flamarion
Illinois California Ciudad de México The 1930sGreat with a gun — A vaudevillian is tricked into murder by a bored wife.
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The House on 92nd Street
New York 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930sThe F.B.I.'s own tense, terrific story behind the protection of the ATOMIC BOMB! — The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
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Her Highness and the Bellboy
New York The 1930sA Royal Command to Love! — In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
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Incendiary Blonde
New York The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sShe was the biggest sucker of them all! — Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Double Indemnity
California The 1930sIt's love and murder at first sight! — A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
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The Fighting Sullivans
Iowa The 1930s The 1940sTHEY MET LIFE - AND GLORY - IN ONE BLINDING FLASH!! — The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.
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