Great Depression Movies
- 1933
Dancing Lady
Dancing Lady71933HD
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...
- 1965
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
The Vampire of Dusseldorf5.61965HD
A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
- 1972
Sounder
Sounder7.41972HD
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for...
- 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...
- 2009
The Butterfly Circus
The Butterfly Circus7.42009HD
At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the...
- 1942
Juke Girl
Juke Girl6.51942HD
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers...
- 1991
Wildflower
Wildflower5.71991HD
One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive...
- 1979
An American Christmas Carol
An American Christmas Carol6.0591979HD
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is...
- 2017
The Eternal Road
The Eternal Road6.92017HD
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930,...
- 1986
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs6.51986HD
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his...
- 1939
They Shall Have Music
They Shall Have Music61939HD
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in...
- 1932
American Madness
American Madness7.11932HD
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery...
- 1933
Wild Boys of the Road
Wild Boys of the Road6.81933HD
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their...
- 1981
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men71981HD
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...
- 1974
Mame
Mame61974HD
The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick...
- 1983
Phar Lap
Phar Lap7.21983HD
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the...
- 1965
Mudhoney
Mudhoney6.11965HD
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...
- 1965
Yoyo
Yoyo71965HD
The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an...
- 1933
Parachute Jumper
Parachute Jumper6.11933HD
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
- 1937
The Go-Getter
The Go-Getter5.31937HD
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.