Keyword: great depression

Pennies from Heaven

6.5

1981

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During the Great Depression, a sheet-music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

Brighton Beach Memoirs

6.9

1986

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Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.

The Tarnished Angels

7.3

1957

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Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.

Sounder

7.7

1972

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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 stealing food.

The Eternal Road

7.2

2017

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One night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home in Finland. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may.

The Great McGinty

7.7

1940

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Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

Phar Lap

7.4

1983

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The true story of an Australian racehorse that became a champion, with the help of a local stableboy.

An American Christmas Carol

6.9

1979

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In an American town, an old bitter miser is given a ghostly chance at redemption on Christmas Eve.

Man's Castle

6.8

1933

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Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

Parachute Jumper

6.7

1933

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To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangsters mistress and ultimately becomes the gangsters bodyguard. Alabama unknowingly applies for a stenographers job at Mr. Webers (the gangsters) business. Bill is forced to fly a plane carrying narcotics into the U.S. but fights back.

Blondie of the Follies

7.2

1932

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Two young women find their friendship strained when one wins a role in a Broadway show, and the others boyfriend begins to fall for her.

Roughly Speaking

6.7

1945

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In 1902, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a mans world. She enrolls at business college but her plans for a career change when she falls in love with handsome Rodney Crane. Although the two have little in common and Rodney disagrees with Louises views on the womans role in society, they marry and have four children. Their personality differences eventually lead to a divorce. Louise eventually finds happiness with her second husband, eccentric Harold Pierson.