Great Depression Movies
- 1985
The Journey of Natty Gann
The Journey of Natty Gann6.91985HD
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds...
- 1981
Pennies from Heaven
Pennies from Heaven6.0341981HD
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...
- 1993
King of the Hill
King of the Hill6.7981993HD
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...
- 1982
Honkytonk Man
Honkytonk Man6.41982HD
During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand...
- 1947
Monsieur Verdoux
Monsieur Verdoux7.7091947HD
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his...
- 1933
Man's Castle
Man's Castle6.9031933HD
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
- 1939
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties7.51939HD
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...
- 1996
The Funeral
The Funeral6.81996HD
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.
- 1933
Dinner at Eight
Dinner at Eight6.71933HD
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...
- 1933
Dancing Lady
Dancing Lady71933HD
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...
- 1941
Sullivan's Travels
Sullivan's Travels7.41941HD
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise...
- 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...
- 1933
Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 19337.21933HD
During the Great Depression, all Broadway shows are closed down. A group of desperate unemployed showgirls find hope when a wealthy songwriter...
- 1976
Bound for Glory
Bound for Glory6.81976HD
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering...
- 2006
Ask the Dust
Ask the Dust5.32006HD
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a...
- 1991
Wildflower
Wildflower5.71991HD
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...
- 1939
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men7.2711939HD
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
- 1991
Rambling Rose
Rambling Rose6.1591991HD
Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and...
- 1957
The Tarnished Angels
The Tarnished Angels6.61957HD
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne,...
- 2005
The 12 Dogs of Christmas
The 12 Dogs of Christmas4.9572005HD
This holiday tale has all the elements of a classic heartwarmer--cuddly dogs, small town spirit, and even a full-fledged Christmas pageant. Set...