The Vault
The Day of the Locust
1975 ★ 6.4Hollywood, 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
Mank
2020 ★ 6.71930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay o
Get Low
2010 ★ 6.7A 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
The Handmaiden
2016 ★ 8.21930s 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
Nest of Vipers
1978 ★ 5.0A 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,
Borsalino
1970 ★ 6.9In 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,
Young Dillinger
1965 ★ 7.3The 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
Nobody's Daughter
1976 ★ 6.2An 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
Phar Lap
1983 ★ 6.9Phar 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
Roaring Years
1962 ★ 6.8In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito v
The Desert Renegades
1965 ★ 9.0In 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
Lucía
1968 ★ 6.4Traces 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
Violette Nozière
1978 ★ 6.7Paris, 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
Heroes of the East
1978 ★ 7.3When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife
Dead End
1937 ★ 7.0The 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
César
1936 ★ 7.6Leaping 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
The Children of Huang Shi
2008 ★ 6.7About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese oc
The Return of Doctor X
1939 ★ 6.0When 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
Shanghai Triad
1995 ★ 6.8Shanghai, 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
The Damned
1969 ★ 7.3In 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
Black Gold
2011 ★ 6.5On 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
Canaris
1954 ★ 6.7Admiral 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
Ladies Only Compartment
1935 ★ 5.5On 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
The Black Cat
1934 ★ 6.7After 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