Great Depression Movies

  • 1981
    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    6.011981HD

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

    Pennies from Heaven
  • 1932
    American Madness

    American Madness

    American Madness

    71932HD

    Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery...

    American Madness
  • 1996
    The Funeral

    The Funeral

    The Funeral

    6.81996HD

    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.

    The Funeral
  • 1986
    Brighton Beach Memoirs

    Brighton Beach Memoirs

    Brighton Beach Memoirs

    6.51986HD

    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...

    Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • 1991
    Wildflower

    Wildflower

    Wildflower

    5.9051991HD

    One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive...

    Wildflower
  • 1939
    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    6.11939HD

    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...

    They Shall Have Music
  • 1933
    Dancing Lady

    Dancing Lady

    Dancing Lady

    6.91933HD

    Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...

    Dancing Lady
  • 1937
    The Go-Getter

    The Go-Getter

    The Go-Getter

    5.81937HD

    A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

    The Go-Getter
  • 1979
    An American Christmas Carol

    An American Christmas Carol

    An American Christmas Carol

    6.21979HD

    In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is...

    An American Christmas Carol
  • 1933
    Parachute Jumper

    Parachute Jumper

    Parachute Jumper

    6.11933HD

    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.

    Parachute Jumper
  • 1983
    Phar Lap

    Phar Lap

    Phar Lap

    7.21983HD

    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...

    Phar Lap
  • 2017
    The Eternal Road

    The Eternal Road

    The Eternal Road

    6.7382017HD

    Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930,...

    The Eternal Road
  • 1933
    Heroes for Sale

    Heroes for Sale

    Heroes for Sale

    71933HD

    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...

    Heroes for Sale
  • 1932
    They Never Come Back

    They Never Come Back

    They Never Come Back

    5.51932HD

    Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...

    They Never Come Back
  • 1975
    Hearts of the West

    Hearts of the West

    Hearts of the West

    5.41975HD

    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...

    Hearts of the West
  • 1932
    Under Eighteen

    Under Eighteen

    Under Eighteen

    6.61932HD

    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....

    Under Eighteen
  • 1965
    Yoyo

    Yoyo

    Yoyo

    7.2021965HD

    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...

    Yoyo
  • 1933
    Wild Boys of the Road

    Wild Boys of the Road

    Wild Boys of the Road

    6.8621933HD

    At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their...

    Wild Boys of the Road
  • 1932
    Blondie of the Follies

    Blondie of the Follies

    Blondie of the Follies

    61932HD

    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...

    Blondie of the Follies
  • 2009
    The Butterfly Circus

    The Butterfly Circus

    The Butterfly Circus

    7.42009HD

    At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the...

    The Butterfly Circus