Great Depression Movies

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...

A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his life... until Mel lost his memory to Alzheimer's....

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...

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

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

As the unemployed Frank is sinking into depression, his son's naive but optimistic twist on the situation could be Frank's way out.

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.

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

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...

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost...

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