Great Depression Movies
- 1933
Looking Forward
Looking Forward6.21933HD
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
- 1932
Faithless
Faithless6.81932HD
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
- 1945
Roughly Speaking
Roughly Speaking6.81945HD
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and...
- 1934
Gentlemen Are Born
Gentlemen Are Born6.51934HD
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn...
- 1933
Brief Moment
Brief Moment2.71933HD
A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless...
- 1932
Beauty and the Boss
Beauty and the Boss71932HD
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
- 1933
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men71933HD
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
- 1975
Hearts of the West
Hearts of the West5.41975HD
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession...
- 1932
Blondie of the Follies
Blondie of the Follies61932HD
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the...
- 1933
She Had to Say Yes
She Had to Say Yes5.81933HD
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have...
- 1935
Coronado
Coronado31935HD
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the...
- 1965
Mudhoney
Mudhoney6.21965HD
In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef...
- 1932
They Never Come Back
They Never Come Back5.51932HD
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...
- 2009
Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone
Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone62009HD
January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime...
- 1937
The Go-Getter
The Go-Getter5.31937HD
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
- 1932
Under Eighteen
Under Eighteen6.61932HD
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take....
- 1941
Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby61941HD
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
- 1981
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men6.41981HD
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always...
- 1979
An American Christmas Carol
An American Christmas Carol6.2071979HD
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is...
- 1977
Why Shoot the Teacher?
Why Shoot the Teacher?5.71977HD
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a...