Great Depression Movies

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

Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura Murdock decides not to marry the boy next door and instead accepts wealthy, older William Brockton's...

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.

In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility...

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...

A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless...

Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a...

A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.

Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.

Set during the height of the Great Depression, a young man gets a job as a photographer and comes face to face with a test of his morals.

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.

A drunkard climbs a ladder into a bedroom in the wrong house and gets romantically involved with the woman who lives there.

Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

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...

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock...

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers...

A man comes to sit alone at an isolated bus stop. Followed by a stranger. Then they both converse about how they once killed someone.