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Movies by Lists - Times Are Rough (The Great Depression in film) (146 [176])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
12 Mighty OrphansHaunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high-school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.2021Ty RobertsHistory, Sport6.9 (8.7K votes)11820240419
Al CaponeA chronicle of the rise and fall of Chicago crime boss Al Capone during the Prohibition era.1959Richard WilsonBiography, Crime, Drama6.7 (1.7K votes)10420211228
American MadnessSocially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all in the same day.1932Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William NeillDrama7.4 (2K votes)7520211228
Angela's AshesBased on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Lime1999Alan ParkerBiography, Drama7.3 (21.6K votes)14520211228
AnnieA spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.1982John Huston (*)Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical6.6 (44.2K votes)12720211228
Artist, TheAn egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era.2011Michel HazanaviciusComedy, Drama, Romance7.9 (238K votes)10020211228
Ask the DustMexican beauty Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek) hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career a...2006Robert TowneDrama, Romance5.7 (10.1K votes)11720240427
Aviator, TheA biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.2004Martin Scorsese (*)Biography, Drama7.5 (351.6K votes)17020211228
Ballad of the Sad Cafe, TheA tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister's son, a diminutive crook-back named Lymon. He suggests th1991Simon CallowComedy, Drama, Mystery6.3 (774 votes)10120211228
Beggars in ErmineJohn Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.1934Phil Rosen (*)Drama5.9 (125 votes)7220211228
Beggars of LifeAfter killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police,1928William A. Wellman (*)Adventure, Drama7.5 (1.1K votes)10020211228
Big Bad MamaCircumstances force a tough single mother and her two daughters into a life of crime and they quickly become outlaws on the run, picking up partners along the way, and traveling to different states, pursued by the law.1974Steve CarverAction, Comedy, Crime, Drama5.7 (3K votes)8420240407
Big Bad Mama IIThe evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, and helps them become folk legends by writing a story ab...1987Jim WynorskiAction, Comedy, Crime4.7 (1K votes)8320240407
Black Cat WhiskeyA housewife whose criminal husband was recently murdered is strong-armed by a group of bootleggers during the Prohibition.2013Michael FredianelliCrime, Drama, Thriller6.3 (29 votes)11620240427
Bloody MamaA psychologically disturbed matriarch presides over her damaged family of bank-robbing misfits.1970Roger Corman (*)Crime, Drama5.7 (3.5K votes)9020221116
Bonnie & ClydeBonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, an infamous American robbery team, were responsible for a 21-month crime spree from 1932. They robbed gas stations, restaurants, and small-town banks, chiefly operating in Texas, Oklahoma, and other...2013Bruce BeresfordBiography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller6.4 (5.8K votes)220231001
Bonnie and ClydeBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.1967Arthur Penn (*)Action, Biography, Crime, Drama7.8 (109.8K votes)11120211228
Bound for GloryThe early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.1976Hal Ashby (*)Biography, Drama, Music7.3 (5K votes)14720211228
Boxcar BerthaDuring the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.1972Martin Scorsese (*)Crime, Drama, Romance6.0 (9.3K votes)8820211228
Brighton Beach MemoirsEugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.1986Gene SaksComedy6.9 (3.6K votes)10820211228
Bugsy MaloneThe classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.1976Alan ParkerComedy, Crime, Family, Musical6.9 (17.6K votes)9320211228
Cannery RowMonterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not move away even if they could. Probably the mo1982David S. WardComedy, Drama, Romance6.7 (3.7K votes)12020211228
CaponeThe story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.1975Steve CarverBiography, Crime, Drama5.7 (2.9K votes)10120211228
Cat's Meow, TheSemi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.2001Peter Bogdanovich (*)Drama, Romance6.4 (8.2K votes)11420211228
ChicagoTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.2002Rob MarshallComedy, Crime, Musical7.2 (225.3K votes)11320211228
Christmas for a DollarA family struggling to get by during the Depression expects another presentless Christmas until the father brings home a dollar for them to spend on presents.2013John LydeDrama, Family7.0 (707 votes)10120240419
Cinderella ManThe story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world.2005Ron HowardBiography, Drama, History, Romance, Sport8.0 (183.6K votes)14420211228
CompulsionTwo wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.1959Richard FleischerBiography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller7.4 (6.4K votes)10320211228
Cotton ClubMeet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.1984Francis Ford Coppola (*)Crime, Drama, Music6.6 (17.7K votes)12920211228
Crime of the CenturyIn 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the ...1996Mark RydellCrime, Drama7.1 (897 votes)11420240427
Day of the Locust, TheAn art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.1975John Schlesinger (*)Drama, Thriller7.0 (5.7K votes)14420211228
DillingerJohn Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.1973John MiliusAction, Biography, Crime, Drama7.0 (5.2K votes)10720211228
Dillinger and CaponeJuly 22, 1934 - outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, a barrage of FBI bullets brings down John Dillinger. As the body of Public Enemy Number one crumbles to the ground, one of the strangest, most riveting stories in the history of cri1995Jon PurdyAction, Crime, Drama5.2 (620 votes)9520211228
DogvilleA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.2003Lars von Trier (*)Crime, Drama8.0 (145.4K votes)17820211228
Dust Bowl, TheA documentary about the 1930s drought of North American prairie farm land, and its consequences during the great depression.2012Ken BurnsDocumentary, History8.2 (2.2K votes)020240910
Emperor of the NorthIn 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.1973Robert Aldrich (*)Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller7.3 (6.2K votes)11820211228
F.I.S.TA rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall.1978Norman Jewison (*)Crime, Drama, Thriller6.4 (7.8K votes)14520211228
Flim-Flam Man, TheA rural con artist and an army deserter cheat the townsfolk and are aided by a rich gal who shields the fleeing duo from the wrath of the pursuing sheriff.1967Irvin Kershner (*)Action, Comedy, Crime6.9 (2.2K votes)10420211228
God's Little AcreIn the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their fami1958Anthony Mann (*)Comedy, Drama, Romance6.6 (1.9K votes)11820211228
Gold Diggers of 1933A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.1933Mervyn LeRoy (*)Comedy, Drama, Musical7.7 (8K votes)9720211228
Grapes of Wrath, TheAn Oklahoma family driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.1940John Ford (*)Drama8.1 (90.3K votes)12920211228
Great Gatsby, TheA Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.1974Jack Clayton (*)Drama, Romance6.4 (24.7K votes)14420211228
Great Gatsby.TheA writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby.2013Baz Luhrmann (*)Drama, Romance7.2 (517.3K votes)14320211228
Great GuyThe adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures.1936John G. BlystoneCrime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery6.3 (994 votes)6620211228
Great Waldo Pepper, TheAfter WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights.1975George Roy Hill (*)Adventure, Drama6.7 (5.9K votes)10720220806
GreedThe sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.1924Erich von Stroheim (*)Drama, Thriller, Western8.1 (9.7K votes)14020211228
Green Mile, TheThe lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.1999Frank Darabont (*)Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery8.6 (1.2M votes)18920211228
Hallelujah I'm A BumA New York tramp (Jolson) falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt1933Lewis MilestoneComedy, Drama, Musical, Romance6.9 (792 votes)8220211228
Hard TimesThe adventures of a drifter turned illegal prize-fighter during the Depression Era in New Orleans.1975Walter HillCrime, Drama, Sport7.3 (10.3K votes)9320211228
Harlan County U.S.A.A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.1976Barbara KoppleDocumentary8.3 (5.6K votes)10320211228
Harlan County WarA Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.2000Tony BillDrama6.4 (621 votes)10420240427
Henry & JuneAnaïs Nin meets the American writer, Henry Miller, in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening which includes Henry and his wife, June.1990Philip Kaufman (*)Biography, Drama6.3 (13.1K votes)13620211228
Heroes for SaleA veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.1933William A. Wellman (*)Drama, Romance, War7.3 (2.2K votes)7620211228
Honkytonk ManA boy with a music talent goes on a journey with his uncle for a stage concert.1982Clint Eastwood (*)Comedy, Drama, Music, Western6.6 (8.7K votes)12220211228
How Green Was My ValleyAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.1941John Ford (*)Drama, Family7.7 (23.4K votes)11820211228
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain GangWrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.1932Mervyn LeRoy (*)Crime, Drama, Film-Noir8.2 (13K votes)9220211228
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage son think he's a real Red.1951Gordon DouglasCrime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller6.1 (800 votes)8320220414
Immigrant, TheIn 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.2013James GrayDrama, Romance6.6 (33K votes)12020230806
In Dubious BattleAn activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.2016James FrancoCrime, Drama, History, Thriller, Western6.0 (4.1K votes)11020220415
IronweedAn alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.1987Hector Babenco (*)Drama6.7 (9.1K votes)14320220414
J. EdgarJ. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.2011Clint Eastwood (*)Biography, Drama, Romance6.5 (126.9K votes)13720211228
Journey of Natty Gann, TheIn the 1930s, a tomboy runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, where he has found work.1985Jeremy KaganAdventure, Family7.0 (6K votes)10120211228
King KongA film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.1933Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. SchoedsackAdventure, Horror, Sci-Fi7.9 (83.6K votes)10020211228
Lady For A DayA gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.1933Frank Capra (*)Comedy, Drama7.4 (4.1K votes)9620211228
Lady KillerA former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.1933Roy Del RuthComedy, Crime7.0 (1.7K votes)7620211228
Land of PlentyA drama that investigates anxiety and disillusionment in America.2004Wim Wenders (*)Drama, War6.4 (4K votes)12320211228
Last Command, TheA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.1928Josef von Sternberg (*)Drama, History, Romance, War8.0 (3.8K votes)8820211228
Last Man StandingA drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.1996Walter HillAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller6.4 (57.2K votes)10120211228
LawlessSet in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits.2012John HillcoatBiography, Crime, Drama7.3 (237.6K votes)11620211228
LeatherheadsIn 1925, an enterprising pro football player convinces America's too-good-to-be-true college football hero to play for his team and keep the league from going under.2008George ClooneyComedy, Drama, Romance, Sport6.0 (33.4K votes)11420240427
Legend of Bagger Vance, TheA down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddie.2000Robert Redford (*)Drama, Fantasy, Sport6.7 (58.4K votes)12620230806
Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, TheOn March 1, 1932, the infant Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the son and namesake of the famed pilot, is kidnapped. After he is later found dead, a German immigrant named Bruno Hauptmann is tried for kidnapping and murder.1976Buzz KulikCrime, Drama, History6.8 (440 votes)14820211228
Little Man, What NowA young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.1934Frank Borzage (*)Drama, Romance7.2 (495 votes)9820211228
Live by NightA group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.2016Ben AffleckAction, Thriller6.4 (55.9K votes)12920211228
Ma Barker's Killer BroodMa Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.1960Bill KarnCrime, Drama, Thriller5.4 (348 votes)8920240419
Machine-Gun KellyThe criminal exploits of Public Enemy number 1, George 'Machine-Gun' Kelly, during the 1930s.1958Roger Corman (*)Action, Biography, Crime, Film-Noir6.2 (1.6K votes)8020211228
MatewanA labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.1987John Sayles (*)Drama, History7.9 (7.9K votes)13520211228
Mayor of Hell, TheFive members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed deputy commissioner as a politi1933Archie Mayo, Michael CurtizCrime, Drama, Romance7.0 (1.6K votes)9020211228
Meet John DoeA penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins.1941Frank Capra (*)Comedy, Drama, Romance7.6 (13.3K votes)12220211228
Merrily We LiveDizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her pr1938Norman Z. McLeod (*)Comedy, Romance7.4 (1.8K votes)9520211228
Miller's CrossingTom Reagan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.1990Joel Coen, Ethan CoenCrime, Drama, Thriller7.7 (132.6K votes)11520211228
MobstersFrom start to finish, it's a story of friendship between four street-wise males who don't mind using violence to achieve the lives that they want. They trust no one but each other, which is vital to their success as mobsters.1991Michael KarbelnikoffCrime, Drama5.9 (9.1K votes)10420220414
Modern TimesThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.1936Charles Chaplin (*)Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance8.5 (233.6K votes)8720211228
Morning GloryAn ex-convict on parole is accused of murdering a loose woman in the town where he works.1993Steven Hilliard SternDrama6.6 (556 votes)9620240427
NewsiesA musical based on the New York City newsboy strike of 1899. When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business.1992Kenny OrtegaDrama, Family, History, Musical6.9 (20.3K votes)12120211228
Newton Boys, TheThe story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.1998Richard Linklater (*)Action, Crime, Drama, History, Western6.1 (11.2K votes)12220211228
O Brother, Where Art ThouIn the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.2000Joel Coen, Ethan CoenAdventure, Comedy, Crime, Music7.7 (302.5K votes)10720211228
October SkyThe true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.1999Joe JohnstonBiography, Drama, Family7.8 (88.3K votes)10820211228
Of Mice and MenA mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.1939Lewis MilestoneAdventure, Drama7.9 (5.9K votes)10620211228
Of Mice and MenA TV adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel. George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled f...1981Reza BadiyiDrama7.2 (557 votes)15020240419
Of Mice and MenA nomadic farm worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression.1992Gary SiniseDrama, Western7.5 (44.2K votes)11520221116
Oklahoma CrudeIn 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle (Faye Dunaway), aided by her father (Sir John Mills) and a hobo (George C. Scott), is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.1973Stanley Kramer (*)Comedy, Drama, Western6.3 (1.3K votes)10820211228
On The WaterfrontAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.1954Elia Kazan (*)Crime, Drama, Thriller8.1 (150.9K votes)10820211228
Once Upon a Time in AmericaA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.1984Sergio Leone (*)Crime, Drama8.3 (337.4K votes)22920211228
Our Daily BreadA group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!1934King Vidor (*)Drama, Romance7.0 (1.9K votes)8020211228
Paper MoonDuring the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.1973Peter Bogdanovich (*)Comedy, Crime, Drama8.1 (45.9K votes)10220211228
Paradise AlleyThree Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manag1978Sylvester StalloneDrama5.8 (5K votes)10720211228
Pennies From HeavenDuring the Great Depression, a sheet-music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.1981Herbert RossDrama, Musical, Romance6.5 (5.6K votes)10820211228
Pete Kelly's BluesIn 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.1955Jack WebbCrime, Drama, Music6.4 (1.3K votes)9520211228
Picture SnatcherEx-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't like that relation at first, but McLean, Kean1933Lloyd Bacon (*)Crime, Drama7.0 (1.6K votes)7720211228
Places in the HeartIn central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.1984Robert Benton (*)Drama7.4 (11.7K votes)11120211228
Plot Against America, TheCharacters live in an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt was defeated in the U.S. presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh.2020Thomas Schlamme, Minkie SpiroDrama, Thriller7.3 (11.2K votes)220240427
Pretty Boy FloydCharles Arthur Floyd finds work on an oil rig after serving time for armed robbery; but when he becomes involved with a married woman, her husband swears revenge. Floyd's boss doesn't know that his new employee was a jailbird.1960Herbert J. LederBiography, Crime, Drama5.6 (149 votes)9620211228
ProhibitionThe story of the American activist struggle against the influence of alcohol, climaxing in the failed early 20th century nationwide era when it was banned.2011Ken Burns, Lynn NovickDocumentary, History8.2 (3.5K votes)020240910
Public EnemiesThe Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.2009Michael Mann (*)Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History7.0 (294K votes)14020211228
Public Enemy, TheAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.1931William A. Wellman (*)Crime, Drama7.6 (20.6K votes)8320211228
Purple Rose of Cairo, TheIn New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.1985Woody Allen (*)Comedy, Fantasy, Romance7.7 (50.7K votes)8220211228
Queen of the MobMobster Ma Webster rules her clan with an iron hand, taking charge of all their robberies despite the protests of George Frost, the only member of her gang who is not her son. On Christmas Eve, Ma, George and her sons Eddie, Charlie 1940James P. HoganCrime, Drama6.7 (56 votes)6120211228
Racket, TheAn honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges.1928Lewis MilestoneCrime, Drama, Film-Noir6.7 (1.3K votes)8420211228
Rainmaker, TheDuring the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster.1956Joseph AnthonyRomance, Western6.9 (3.9K votes)12120211228
Rambling RoseA young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.1991Martha CoolidgeDrama6.6 (4.9K votes)11220211228
RedsA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.1981Warren Beatty (*)Biography, Drama, History, Romance7.3 (22.4K votes)19520211228
Road to PerditionA mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.2002Sam MendesCrime, Drama, Thriller7.7 (260.7K votes)11720211228
Roaring Twenties, TheThree men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.1939Raoul Walsh (*)Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller7.9 (13.7K votes)10620211228
ScarfaceAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.1932Howard Hawks, Richard RossonAction, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller7.7 (27.3K votes)9320211228
SeabiscuitTrue story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.2003Gary RossDrama, History, Sport7.3 (71.4K votes)14020211228
Serpent's Egg, TheBerlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.1977Ingmar Bergman (*)Drama, Mystery, Thriller6.7 (5.7K votes)11920211228
SounderThe oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.1972Martin Ritt (*)Drama, Family7.6 (4.1K votes)10520211228
Spirit of St. Louis, TheCharles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.1957Billy Wilder (*)Adventure, Biography, Drama, History7.2 (7.9K votes)13520211228
Spirits of St. Paul - The Gangster EraThis award-winning drama depicts The Gangster Era in St Paul in the 1920s & 30s. John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and most notably, Ma Barker's Barker-Karpis Gang and many others were given safe haven by corrupt...2012Brain Crask, Gary CraskDrama6.6 (28 votes)11020240427
Stars Fell on Henrietta, TheA story of desperate search for oil.1995James KeachDrama6.4 (843 votes)10920240427
Sting, TheTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.1973George Roy Hill (*)Comedy, Crime, Drama8.3 (254.4K votes)12920211228
Story of Pretty Boy Floyd, TheA humanistic account of "the Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills", in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of family and duty.1974Clyde WareCrime, Drama6.6 (88 votes)9020211228
Sullivans TravelsHollywood director John L Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.1941Preston Sturges (*)Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance7.9 (25.8K votes)9020211228
Sullivans, TheThe lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression.1944Lloyd Bacon (*)Biography, Drama, History, War7.5 (2.2K votes)11220211228
SyncopationCovering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Ki1942William Dieterle (*)Comedy, History, Music, Romance6.3 (227 votes)8820211228
They Drive by NightA convict, just out of prison, is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver.1938Arthur B. WoodsCrime, Thriller7.0 (289 votes)8420211228
They Drive By NightWhen one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.1940Raoul Walsh (*)Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller7.3 (7.7K votes)9520211228
They Shoot Horses Dont TheyThe lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.1969Sydney Pollack (*)Drama7.9 (18.8K votes)12920211228
Thieves HighwayA war veteran turned truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.1949Jules DassinDrama, Film-Noir, Thriller7.6 (5.7K votes)9420211228
Thieves Like UsWhen two men break out of prison, they join up with another and restart their criminal ways, robbing banks across the South.1974Robert Altman (*)Crime, Drama, Romance7.0 (4.6K votes)12320211228
This Property is CondemnedThe dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression.1966Sydney Pollack (*)Drama, Romance7.0 (5.7K votes)11020211228
To Kill a MockingbirdAtticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.1962Robert Mulligan (*)Crime, Drama8.2 (308.4K votes)12920211228
Tobacco RoadHillbilly family life in 1941 rural Georgia.1941John Ford (*)Comedy, Drama6.5 (2.2K votes)8420211228
Tortilla FlatDanny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.1942Victor Fleming (*)Comedy, Drama, Romance6.2 (1.9K votes)10520220806
Tramp, Tramp, TrampLow-life Harry falls in love with sweet Betty who inspires him to improve himself so he can marry her. He enters a $25, 000 cross-country hiking contest. After many adventures he wins, pays off his father Amos's mortgage and marri...1926Harry EdwardsAdventure, Comedy, Romance6.3 (814 votes)6220240419
TrialCourtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.1955Mark RobsonDrama6.9 (1K votes)10520211228
Untouchables, TheDuring the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.1987Brian De Palma (*)Crime, Drama, Thriller7.9 (299.4K votes)11920211228
Walk on the Wild SideA man arrives in New Orleans searching for his former girlfriend, an artist who now works in a bordello.1962Edward Dmytryk (*)Drama, Romance6.7 (2.4K votes)11420211228
Water For ElephantsSet in the 1930s, a former veterinary student takes a job in a travelling circus and falls in love with the ringmaster's wife.2011Francis LawrenceDrama, Romance6.9 (115.5K votes)12020220414
Way We Were, TheIn pre-WWII, McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that geniune friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.1973Sydney Pollack (*)Drama, Romance7.1 (24.3K votes)11820211228
Where the Red Fern GrowsWhere the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.1974Norman TokarDrama, Family6.9 (3.8K votes)9720240419
White HeatA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.1949Raoul Walsh (*)Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir8.1 (32K votes)11420211228
Wild Boys of the RoadIn the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.1933William A. Wellman (*)Adventure, Drama7.5 (1.9K votes)6820211228
Wild RiverA TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.1960Elia Kazan (*)Drama, History, Romance7.6 (5.3K votes)11020211228
Young DillingerJohn Dillinger first goes to jail after attempting to rob his girlfriend's father at her suggestion. Falling in with the likes of "Baby Face" Nelson and "Pretty Boy" Floyd, he arranges their escape and they start on an escalating ser1965Terry O. MorseCrime, Drama5.6 (133 votes)10220211228
Hobo1992John T. DavisDocumentary7.5 (Unkn) Excluded
When the World Breaks2010Hans FjellestadDocumentary7.1 (Unkn) Excluded
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History2014nanDocumentary, Biography, History, War8.8 (Unkn) Excluded
The Forgotten Village1941Alexander Hammid, Herbert KlineDocumentary, Drama6.7 (Unkn) Excluded
Boardwalk Empire2010nanCrime, Drama8.6 (Unkn) Excluded
Bonnie & Clyde: Justified2013David DeCoteauAction, Crime, Drama, Romance3.5 (Unkn) Excluded
The Great American Hobo1980Bobb HopkinsDocumentary, Shortnan (Unkn) Excluded
Whelm2019Skyler LawsonThriller3.9 (Unkn) Excluded
The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War1984Mary Dore, Noel Buckner, Sam SillsDocumentary8.1 (Unkn) Excluded
The Last Beyond2019Graham DuBoseDrama4.8 (Unkn) Excluded
The Flying Irishman1939Leigh JasonBiography, Drama5.1 (Unkn) Excluded
The Billion Dollar Hobo1977Stuart E. McGowanComedy, Family4.5 (Unkn) Excluded
You Can't Get Away with It1936Charles E. FordCrime, Short, Documentary5.8 (Unkn) Excluded
Of Mice and Men1968Ted KotcheffDrama8.1 (Unkn) Excluded
Catching Out2003Sarah GeorgeDocumentary, Crime6.6 (Unkn) Excluded
The Last of the American Hobos1967Titus MoedeHistory5.0 (Unkn) Excluded
Mad Ship2013David MortinDrama5.3 (Unkn) Excluded
The Story of Hoover Dam1981nanDocumentary, Shortnan (Unkn) Excluded
Riding the Rails1997Lexy Lovell, Michael UysDocumentary, History7.6 (Unkn) Excluded
The Untouchables1959nanAction, Crime, Drama8.0 (Unkn) Excluded
Nothing by Chance1975William H. BarnettDocumentary7.6 (Unkn) Excluded
Bullets Over Hollywood2005Elaina ArcherDocumentary, History7.0 (Unkn) Excluded
The Waltons1972nanDrama, Family, Romance7.6 (Unkn) Excluded
Carnivàle2003nanDrama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller8.4 (Unkn) Excluded
The American Hobo2003Bobb HopkinsDocumentary6.7 (Unkn) Excluded
A Sad Flower in the Sand2001Jan LouterDocumentary7.9 (Unkn) Excluded
Sounder, Part 21976William A. GrahamDrama5.8 (Unkn) Excluded
Brother Can You Spare a Dime1975Philippe MoraDocumentary7.1 (Unkn) Excluded
The Roaring 20's1960nanCrime, Drama8.1 (Unkn) Excluded
The Wobblies1979Stewart Bird, Deborah ShafferDocumentary, History7.3 (Unkn) Excluded