Great Depression Movies

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

Follows James Miller, an ambitious and industrious young man, learning to embrace his sexuality and romantic desires, while fighting to survive the...

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

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like...

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

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

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...

In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs....

A virtuous and innocent young woman uneasily gives in to the lavish attentions of a "sugar daddy" but then finds true love with a newspaperman her...

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...

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have...

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

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

Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

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

In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and...

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.

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.