Great Depression Movies
- 1939
They Shall Have Music
They Shall Have Music6.1111939HD
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...
- 1940
The Great McGinty
The Great McGinty6.91940HD
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...
- 1991
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken7.41991HD
A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a...
- 1993
King of the Hill
King of the Hill6.81993HD
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 1939
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men7.31939HD
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
- 1935
One More Spring
One More Spring5.751935HD
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
- 1975
Hearts of the West
Hearts of the West5.41975HD
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession...
- 2017
The Eternal Road
The Eternal Road6.7382017HD
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930,...
- 1932
Under Eighteen
Under Eighteen6.61932HD
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take....
- 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...
- 1932
Faithless
Faithless6.81932HD
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
- 1933
Heroes for Sale
Heroes for Sale71933HD
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his...
- 1965
Yoyo
Yoyo7.2021965HD
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...
- 1939
They All Come Out
They All Come Out5.61939HD
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of...
- 1979
An American Christmas Carol
An American Christmas Carol6.21979HD
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is...
- 1935
Coronado
Coronado31935HD
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the...
- 1932
They Never Come Back
They Never Come Back5.51932HD
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...