Great Depression Movies

  • 1939
    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    6.1111939HD

    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...

    They Shall Have Music
  • 1940
    The Great McGinty

    The Great McGinty

    The Great McGinty

    6.91940HD

    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...

    The Great McGinty
  • 1991
    Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

    Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

    Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

    7.41991HD

    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...

    Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
  • 1993
    King of the Hill

    King of the Hill

    King of the Hill

    6.81993HD

    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...

    King of the Hill
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1939
    Of Mice and Men

    Of Mice and Men

    Of Mice and Men

    7.31939HD

    An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

    Of Mice and Men
  • 1935
    One More Spring

    One More Spring

    One More Spring

    5.751935HD

    Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

    One More Spring
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1932
    Faithless

    Faithless

    Faithless

    6.81932HD

    Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

    Faithless
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1939
    They All Come Out

    They All Come Out

    They All Come Out

    5.61939HD

    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...

    They All Come Out
  • 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
  • 1935
    Coronado

    Coronado

    Coronado

    31935HD

    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...

    Coronado
  • 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