The Roaring Twenties (1939), They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), The Wind Rises (2013), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), The Public Enemy (1931), Easy Living (1937), The Fighting Sullivans (1944), Wild Boys of the Road (1933) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Great Depression movies.
Storyline: John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.—Barry Manhampton
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, farmer, carpenter, plumber, musician, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain. Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secret yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck - profession: Rainmaker.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: woman, sheriff, con artist, farmer, brother, suitor, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Plot Keywords: socialite, executive, millionaire, brother, mistress, suitor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A disillusioned war veteran, Captain Rannulph Junuh, reluctantly agrees to play a game of golf. He finds the game futile until his caddy, Bagger Vance, teaches him the secret of the authentic golf stroke which turns out also to be the secret to mastering any challenge and finding meaning in life.
Plot Keywords: golfer, coach, caddy, socialite, ex-girlfriend, alcoholic, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explores their code of fairness and loyalty.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: baseball player, singer, wife, homeless person, bleak, witty, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Penny Hale is the daughter of Jeff Hale, a once wealthy architect and widower now ruined by the depression and working as the maintenance man in an apartment building, in which his girlfriend Lola lives in the penthouse. Shirley, always positive and happy refuses to accept their drop in the world and believes prosperity is just around the corner. She makes friends with an eccentric, grumpy old man, Samuel G. Henshaw, who turns out to be a millionaire and backs her father's engineering plans.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: young girl, tycoon, father, chauffeur, janitor, airy, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside café owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder.
Plot Keywords: drifter, restaurant owner, wife, prosecutor, shocking, hedonistic, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Truscott goes to Borneo to work with the Iban. He reports to Henry Bullard, who gives him a "sleeping dictionary"--one of the locals who teaches him the local language and culture. And who he gives John is Selima. And while teaching him, John finds himself attracted to her. And we says it's not allowed, both the locals and Bullard forbid him to be in a relationship with Selima. But he defies them which has dire consequences.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: baroness, composer, producer, cellist, father, amputee, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: model, friend, roommate, married man, wife, chauffeur, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The town of Colbrook, Massachusetts was founded by the family of the same name, and as such they are its leading family. Widowed Mrs. Reginald Colbrook - Mary - has had to manage the family money following her husband's death, something she had never done and at which she knows she is not good. However, in doing what she felt best, she made some bad investments, leaving her and her children - young adult Muriel, teenagers Reginald Jr. ("Reggie") and Gwen, and adolescent Bill - penniless, which she tries to hide from them. When the children do find out, Muriel, Reggie and Gwen, absorbed in their own lives, decide to do what they believe is best for their own individual situation, which involves abandoning their mother and living with their judgmental and controlling but wealthy paternal Aunt Caroline. Bill, on the other hand, was not invited by Aunt Caroline, as she has always believed the rumors that he is not her biological nephew, he who would not have gone with her regardless in his unconditional love for his mother. As Mary and Bill try to deal with their financial situation, their lives are affected by Bill's new friend, who was previously seen only as their curmudgeonly neighbor Mrs. Adelaide Crosby, and John Rudlin, the bank manager who has always had a bad name by all adult blood Colbrooks, such as Reginald Sr. and Aunt Caroline, but who Mary has always considered a friend. These supportive relationships and ultimately the truth may set them all on a path to true happiness.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: widow, daughter, son, aunt, wealthy woman, mother, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A film biography of American humorist Will Rogers of Oklahoma. It captures the highlights of his life from Oklahoma ranch life to traveling the world in search adventure and a life as a performer in vaudeville. Portrayed by Will Rogers, Jr. He has the sound and character to be his father--the Cherokee Kid, Will Rogers.
Plot Keywords: vaudevillian, cowboy, actor, comedian, wife, woodrow wilson, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Chicago during the 1930s Depression, sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music-store owners to buy them. Although he's already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets schoolteacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: salesman, wife, schoolteacher, pretty woman, homeless person, creative, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Newly inaugurated President Judson Hammond is content to live out the next four years exercising a hands-off approach and leaving the problems of Depression America to local authorities. But after a miraculous recovery from an auto accident, Hammond is ready to take on every social ill and neither Congress, gangsters nor the nations of the world will stop him.—Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: president, chief of staff, secret police, secretary of state, lover, gangster, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sydney, Australia in the mid-1920's. Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her rich cad husband walks out on her. Despite numerous hardships such as the Great Depression, Caddie still manages to catch the eye of smooth dandy Ted and strikes up a romantic relationship with dashing Greek gentleman Peter.—Woodyanders
Plot Keywords: single mother, abusive husband, immigrant, child, bookie, womanizer, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.
Plot Keywords: shipbuilder, millionaire, passenger, soldier, captain, thrilling, brooding ...
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