Topic: 1930s

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Robert Redford · Paul Newman · Robert Shaw · Charles Durning

Plot When small-time con man Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) and his partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), unwittingly con a numbers runner courier, they find themselves in danger from mobster Doyle Lonigan...

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Giorgio Cantarini · Marisa Paredes

Plot Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and...

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Robert De Niro · James Woods · Elizabeth McGovern · Tuesday Weld

Plot Ex-gangster David Aaronson (Robert DeNiro) is drawn back to New York City after years of being in hiding, despite his vow to never return after the deaths of his friends...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Robert De Niro · Dominique Sanda · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot In 1901, in the north of Italy, the same day Giuseppe Verdi died, the sons of a landlord and a farm worker are born. They will be inseparable friends, although...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Bruno Zanin · Pupella Maggio · Armando Brescia · Ciccio Ingrassia

Plot It explores the life of a small Italian coastal town in the 1930s, during the Fascist period.

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Martha Raye · Marilyn Nash · Isobel Elsom

Plot Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard who marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jack Nicholson · Faye Dunaway · John Huston · Perry Lopez

Plot It is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · John Vernon · Françoise Berd

Plot Set during one of the massive rallies which marked the visit of Adolf Hitler to Mussolini’s Rome in May 1938. The story revolves around Antonietta and Gabriele, neighbors in the...

Direction Frank Darabont

Cast Tom Hanks · Michael Clarke Duncan · David Morse · Doug Hutchison

Plot In a US retirement home in the present, elderly Paul Edgecomb reminisces to his friend Elaine. Flashbacks reveal events in 1935: Edgecomb is a death-row warder in a southern state...

Direction Charles Sturridge · Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Cast Jeremy Irons · Anthony Andrews · Diana Quick · Laurence Olivier

Plot TV Series (October 1981 - December 1981). Jeremy Irons stars as the impressionable Oxford youth bedazzled by Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews), youngest of the wealthy ill-fated Marchmain family. Irons quickly...

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Harrison Ford · Sean Connery · Alison Doody · Denholm Elliott

Plot It’s 1938 and Indy (Harrison Ford) receives word that his archaeologist dad, Professor Henry Jones (Sean Connery), has disappeared while on a quest for the Holy Grail. Indy embarks on...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Margarita Terekhova · Philip Yankovsky · Ignat Daniltsev · Oleg Yankovskiy

Plot Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family....

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Harrison Ford · Karen Allen · Paul Freeman · Ronald Lacey

Plot It is 1936. Archaeology professor Indiana Jones is recruited by the US government to find the Lost Ark of the Covenant, which once contained the tablets upon which the Ten...

Direction Brian De Palma

Cast Kevin Costner · Sean Connery · Robert De Niro · Andy García

Plot Kevin Costner is idealistic federal agent Eliot Ness, whose assignment to clean up Prohibition-era Chicago leads to violence and manly questions about upholding the law. Initially powerless to stop the...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Natalie Wood · Warren Beatty · Pat Hingle · Audrey Christie

Plot Set in rural Kansas, "Splendor in the Grass" tells the tragically romantic tale of teenagers Deanie and Bud who repress their desires because of their families' disapproval. Coming from radically...

Direction Bob Fosse

Cast Liza Minnelli · Michael York · Helmut Griem · Joel Grey

Plot It is the city of Berlin in 1931, a time when political unrest racks the country, the economy has been destroyed, and millions of unemployed roam the streets. Enter into...

Direction Daniel Knauf · Rodrigo García · Jeremy Podeswa · Jack Bender

Cast Nick Stahl · Clancy Brown · Amy Madigan · Michael J. Anderson

Plot TV Series (2003-2005). 2 Seasons. 24 Episodes. "Carnivale" follows a traveling carnival as it wends its way across the Dust Bowl, focusing on Ben Hawkins, a mysterious 18-year-old fugitive with...

Direction Park Chan-wook

Cast Kim Min-hee · Kim Tae-ri · Ha Jung-woo · Cho Jin-woong

Plot 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate...

Direction Juan José Campanella · Sebastián Pivotto · Bruno Stagnaro · Paula Hernández

Cast Héctor Alterio · Ernesto Alterio · Eduardo Blanco · Silvia Abascal

Plot Vientos de agua (Winds of Water) is a 2006 cult Argentine- Spanish mini TV series created by Juan José Campanella. The drama traces a Spaniard's emigration to Argentina in the...

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Mia Farrow · Jeff Daniels · Danny Aiello · Dianne Wiest

Plot It’s the Depression and Cecilia works herself into the ground as a waitress in New Jersey while her husband does nothing. Her only outlet is the cinema, to which she...