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24 results for “1930s cinema”

The Day of the Locust

1975 ★ 6.4

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighb

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Mank

2020 ★ 6.7

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay o

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Get Low

2010 ★ 6.7

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

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The Handmaiden

2016 ★ 8.2

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a

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Nest of Vipers

1978 ★ 5.0

A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla,

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Borsalino

1970 ★ 6.9

In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches,

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Young Dillinger

1965 ★ 7.3

The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter. Young Dillinger is a 1965 crime and drama film that depicts the activitie

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Nobody's Daughter

1976 ★ 6.2

An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adoptive parents. Nobody's Daughter is a 1976 drama film directed by László Ranódy that tells the story of Csöre, an orpha

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Phar Lap

1983 ★ 6.9

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 New Zealan

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Roaring Years

1962 ★ 6.8

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito v

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The Desert Renegades

1965 ★ 9.0

In the deserts of the Middle East, circa 1930s, a half-Arab-half-French adventurer named Aldar woos the Princess Yasmin while engaged in selling guns to warring

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Lucía

1968 ★ 6.4

Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the 1890s, the 1930s, and the 1960s. Lucia is a 19

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Violette Nozière

1978 ★ 6.7

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-ol

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Heroes of the East

1978 ★ 7.3

When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife

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Dead End

1937 ★ 7.0

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum. Topic: Film "Dead End" (1

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César

1936 ★ 7.6

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young

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The Children of Huang Shi

2008 ★ 6.7

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese oc

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The Return of Doctor X

1939 ★ 6.0

When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wo

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Shanghai Triad

1995 ★ 6.8

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss

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The Damned

1969 ★ 7.3

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime. Drama History grim political intense historica

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Black Gold

2011 ★ 6.5

On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Su

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Canaris

1954 ★ 6.7

Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new de

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Ladies Only Compartment

1935 ★ 5.5

On his wedding day, Robert confesses his father-in-law that twenty years ago, he seduced a lady in a sleeping car of a train. His mother-in-law overhears the co

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The Black Cat

1934 ★ 6.7

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalm

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