Keyword: great depression

Places in the Heart

7.3

1984

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In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.

The Secret Killer

6.1

1965

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A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.

The Roaring Twenties

7.9

1939

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Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

Zelig

7.9

1983

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Documentary about a man who can look and act like whoever hes around, and meets various famous people.

Under Eighteen

7.4

1931

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A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sisters abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.

Sullivan's Travels

8.3

1941

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Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

The Funeral

6.6

1996

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After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

Of Mice and Men

6

1981

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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 watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to others. After they take a new job at a ranch, Lenny gets into far more trouble than George can talk his way out of, leaving George to decide whether to help him, or leave him to his fate.

Gold Diggers of 1933

8

1933

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A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.

Dancing Lady

6.7

1933

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An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man, who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.

Emperor of the North

7.4

1973

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In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.

Ask the Dust

5.8

2006

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Mexican beauty Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek) hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.