373 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1930s
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Get Low
Georgia The 1930sA true tall tale — A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
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Max Schmeling
New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece The 1930s The 1940sBased on the true story of Max Schmeling. A national hero in the 1930's when he became World heavyweight champion. He lost favour with the Nazi regime when he lost to a black man, Joe Louis, and is sent to the front in the hope he will be killed in battle.
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Public Enemies
Wisconsin Indiana Illinois South Dakota The 1930sAmerica's Most Wanted. — Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
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Me and Orson Welles
New York The 1930sIf you want to discover life learn from the master — New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
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Watchmen
New York District of Columbia Mars 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇦🇶 Antarctica The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sJustice is coming to all of us. No matter what we do. — In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
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Blood Creek
West Virginia The 1930s The 2000sA man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
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Night Mayor
Manitoba The 1930sWinnipeg, 1939: Bosnian immigrant Nihad Ademi conceives of a way to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis in order to broadcast imagery of his vast and beloved adopted land from coast to coast to coast.
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Changeling
California Illinois British Columbia The 1930s The 1920sTo find her son, she did what no one else dared. — Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
New York Louisiana Florida 🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia 🇮🇳 India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 2000sLife isn't measured in minutes, but in moments. — I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Ohio The 1930sKit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job. — The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American Girl" theatrical movie. In order to keep their home, Kit and her mother must take in boarders - paying house - guests who turn out to be full of fascinating stories. When mother's lockbox containing all their money is stolen, Kit's new hobo friend Will is the prime suspect. Kit refuses to believe that Will would steal, and her efforts to sniff out the real story get her and friends into big trouble. The police say the robbery was an inside job, committed by someone they know. So if it wasn't Will, then who did it.
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Pineapple Express
California The 2000s The 1930sPut this in your pipe and smoke it — A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
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Frost/Nixon
California District of Columbia New South Wales The 1970s The 1960s The 1930s The 1920s400 million people were waiting for the truth. — For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.
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Dark Streets
New York The 1930sMusic, Passion, Betrayal. Welcome to the Blues — Chaz Davenport is a dashing bachelor who owns what promises to become the hottest new nightclub in town--if only the lights would stay on. Surrounded by the sumptuous blues music he adores, and with his pick of the gorgeous women who perform their sensual dance numbers onstage every night, Chaz is the envy of every man.
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La Vie en Rose
🇫🇷 France California New York The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sThe Extraordinary Story of Edith Piaf. — From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
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Return to House on Haunted Hill
California The 2000s The 1930sEight years have passed since Sara Wolfe and Eddie Baker escaped the House on Haunted Hill. Now the kidnapped Ariel, Sara's sister, goes inside the house with a group of treasure hunters to find the statue of Baphomet, worth millions and believed to be the cause of the House's evil.
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The Great Debaters
Massachusetts Texas The 1930sWhen the nation was in need, he inspired them to give us hope. — The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
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Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation
New York The 1930s The 1920sAlbert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lured children to their deaths in Depression-era New York City. Distorting biblical tales, Albert Fish takes the themes of pain, torture, atonement and suffering literally as he preys on victims to torture and sacrifice.
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Booky & the Secret Santa
Ontario The 1930sBooky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
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The Good Shepherd
Connecticut Virginia District of Columbia England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe untold story of the most powerful covert agency in the world. — Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
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Ask the Dust
California The 1930sPassion and ambition drive two dreamers in 1930s LA. Their love affair is ferocious and hot-blooded as they fight the city and themselves to make their dreams come true. — Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Texas The 1960s The 1930sWhat you know about fear... doesn't even come close. — Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
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Idlewild
Georgia The 1930s The 1920sA musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
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Everyone's Hero
New York Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois The 1930sNo matter where life takes you, always keep swingin' — A boy begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close.
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Heavens Fall
Alabama The 1930sSuccessful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
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King Kong
🇮🇩 Indonesia New York The 1930sThe eighth wonder of the world. — In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
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