Movies by Lists - Times Are Rough (The Great Depression in film) (128) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| Al CaponeA chronicle of the rise and fall of Chicago crime boss Al Capone during the Prohibition era. | 1959 | Richard Wilson | Biography, Crime, Drama | 6.7 (1.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1932 | Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill | Drama | 7.4 (2K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| 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 Lime | 1999 | Alan Parker | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (21.6K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| AnnieA spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage. | 1982 | John Huston (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical | 6.6 (44.2K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Artist, TheAn egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era. | 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (238K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Aviator, TheA biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s. | 2004 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.5 (351.6K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| 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 th | 1991 | Simon Callow | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 6.3 (774 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1934 | Phil Rosen (*) | Drama | 5.9 (125 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| 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, | 1928 | William A. Wellman (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.5 (1.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Bloody MamaA psychologically disturbed matriarch presides over her damaged family of bank-robbing misfits. | 1970 | Roger Corman (*) | Crime, Drama | 5.7 (3.5K votes) | 90 | 20221116 |
| 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... | 2013 | Bruce Beresford | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 6.4 (5.8K votes) | 2 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 1967 | Arthur Penn (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (109.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Bound for GloryThe early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer. | 1976 | Hal Ashby (*) | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.3 (5K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Boxcar BerthaDuring the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad. | 1972 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (9.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1986 | Gene Saks | Comedy | 6.9 (3.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Bugsy MaloneThe classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast. | 1976 | Alan Parker | Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical | 6.9 (17.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| 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 mo | 1982 | David S. Ward | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (3.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1975 | Steve Carver | Biography, Crime, Drama | 5.7 (2.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2001 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (8.2K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| ChicagoTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention. | 2002 | Rob Marshall | Comedy, Crime, Musical | 7.2 (225.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Cinderella ManThe story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world. | 2005 | Ron Howard | Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Sport | 8.0 (183.6K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| CompulsionTwo wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case. | 1959 | Richard Fleischer | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.4 (6.4K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Cotton ClubMeet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem. | 1984 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama, Music | 6.6 (17.7K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1975 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (5.7K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| DillingerJohn Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down. | 1973 | John Milius | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.0 (5.2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| 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 cri | 1995 | Jon Purdy | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.2 (620 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2003 | Lars von Trier (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.0 (145.4K votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1973 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (6.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1978 | Norman Jewison (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (7.8K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1967 | Irvin Kershner (*) | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6.9 (2.2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| 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 fami | 1958 | Anthony Mann (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (1.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Gold Diggers of 1933A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 7.7 (8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1940 | John Ford (*) | Drama | 8.1 (90.3K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Great Gatsby, TheA Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love. | 1974 | Jack Clayton (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (24.7K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Great Gatsby.TheA writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby. | 2013 | Baz Luhrmann (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (517.3K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Great GuyThe adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures. | 1936 | John G. Blystone | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.3 (994 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1975 | George Roy Hill (*) | Adventure, Drama | 6.7 (5.9K votes) | 107 | 20220806 |
| GreedThe sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved. | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 8.1 (9.7K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1999 | Frank Darabont (*) | Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 8.6 (1.2M votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
| Hallelujah I'm A BumA New York tramp (Jolson) falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt | 1933 | Lewis Milestone | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (792 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Hard TimesThe adventures of a drifter turned illegal prize-fighter during the Depression Era in New Orleans. | 1975 | Walter Hill | Crime, Drama, Sport | 7.3 (10.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1976 | Barbara Kopple | Documentary | 8.3 (5.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1990 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (13.1K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Heroes for SaleA veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world. | 1933 | William A. Wellman (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.3 (2.2K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Honkytonk ManA boy with a music talent goes on a journey with his uncle for a stage concert. | 1982 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music, Western | 6.6 (8.7K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1941 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Family | 7.7 (23.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 8.2 (13K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1951 | Gordon Douglas | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (800 votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
| 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. | 2013 | James Gray | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (33K votes) | 120 | 20230806 |
| In Dubious BattleAn activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s. | 2016 | James Franco | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, Western | 6.0 (4.1K votes) | 110 | 20220415 |
| IronweedAn alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades. | 1987 | Hector Babenco | Drama | 6.7 (9.1K votes) | 143 | 20220414 |
| J. EdgarJ. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life. | 2011 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (126.9K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1985 | Jeremy Kagan | Adventure, Family | 7.0 (6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (83.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Lady For A DayA gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day. | 1933 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (4.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Lady KillerA former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him. | 1933 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Crime | 7.0 (1.7K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Land of PlentyA drama that investigates anxiety and disillusionment in America. | 2004 | Wim Wenders (*) | Drama, War | 6.4 (4K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.0 (3.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1996 | Walter Hill | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (57.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2012 | John Hillcoat | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.3 (237.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Legend of Bagger Vance, TheA down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddie. | 2000 | Robert Redford (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Sport | 6.7 (58.4K votes) | 126 | 20230806 |
| 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. | 1976 | Buzz Kulik | Crime, Drama, History | 6.8 (440 votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1934 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (495 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2016 | Ben Affleck | Action, Thriller | 6.4 (55.9K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Machine-Gun KellyThe criminal exploits of Public Enemy number 1, George 'Machine-Gun' Kelly, during the 1930s. | 1958 | Roger Corman (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Film-Noir | 6.2 (1.6K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| MatewanA labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company. | 1987 | John Sayles (*) | Drama, History | 7.9 (7.9K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| 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 politi | 1933 | Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1941 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (13.3K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| 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 pr | 1938 | Norman Z. McLeod (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (1.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1990 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (132.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1991 | Michael Karbelnikoff | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (9.1K votes) | 104 | 20220414 |
| Modern TimesThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. | 1936 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance | 8.5 (233.6K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1992 | Kenny Ortega | Drama, Family, History, Musical | 6.9 (20.3K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Newton Boys, TheThe story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence. | 1998 | Richard Linklater (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, History, Western | 6.1 (11.2K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| O Brother, Where Art ThouIn the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. | 2000 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music | 7.7 (302.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1999 | Joe Johnston | Biography, Drama, Family | 7.8 (88.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Of Mice and MenA nomadic farm worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression. | 1992 | Gary Sinise | Drama, Western | 7.5 (44.2K votes) | 115 | 20221116 |
| Of Mice and MenA mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America. | 1939 | Lewis Milestone | Adventure, Drama | 7.9 (5.9K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1973 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Comedy, Drama, Western | 6.3 (1.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1954 | Elia Kazan (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (150.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1984 | Sergio Leone (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.3 (337.4K votes) | 229 | 20211228 |
| Our Daily BreadA group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread! | 1934 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.9K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.1 (45.9K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| 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 manag | 1978 | Sylvester Stallone | Drama | 5.8 (5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1981 | Herbert Ross | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (5.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1955 | Jack Webb | Crime, Drama, Music | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| 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, Kean | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1984 | Robert Benton (*) | Drama | 7.4 (11.7K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1960 | Herbert J. Leder | Biography, Crime, Drama | 5.6 (149 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2009 | Michael Mann (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History | 7.0 (294K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Public Enemy, TheAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. | 1931 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (20.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Purple Rose of Cairo, TheIn New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world. | 1985 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 7.7 (50.7K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| 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 | 1940 | James P. Hogan | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (56 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Racket, TheAn honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges. | 1928 | Lewis Milestone | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Rainmaker, TheDuring the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster. | 1956 | Joseph Anthony | Romance, Western | 6.9 (3.9K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Rambling RoseA young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation. | 1991 | Martha Coolidge | Drama | 6.6 (4.9K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| RedsA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. | 1981 | Warren Beatty (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.3 (22.4K votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2002 | Sam Mendes | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (260.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Roaring Twenties, TheThree men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I. | 1939 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (13.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| ScarfaceAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall. | 1932 | Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (27.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2003 | Gary Ross | Drama, History, Sport | 7.3 (71.4K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1977 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (5.7K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1972 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama, Family | 7.6 (4.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1957 | Billy Wilder (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 7.2 (7.9K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Sting, TheTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. | 1973 | George Roy Hill (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.3 (254.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1974 | Clyde Ware | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (88 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1941 | Preston Sturges (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (25.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Sullivans, TheThe lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression. | 1944 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.5 (2.2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| 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 Ki | 1942 | William Dieterle (*) | Comedy, History, Music, Romance | 6.3 (227 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1940 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (7.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1938 | Arthur B. Woods | Crime, Thriller | 7.0 (289 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| They Shoot Horses Dont TheyThe lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon. | 1969 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama | 7.9 (18.8K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1949 | Jules Dassin | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.6 (5.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Thieves Like UsWhen two men break out of prison, they join up with another and restart their criminal ways, robbing banks across the South. | 1974 | Robert Altman (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (4.6K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| This Property is CondemnedThe dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression. | 1966 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (5.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1962 | Robert Mulligan (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.2 (308.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Tobacco RoadHillbilly family life in 1941 rural Georgia. | 1941 | John Ford (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (2.2K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Tortilla FlatDanny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends. | 1942 | Victor Fleming (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (1.9K votes) | 105 | 20220806 |
| 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. | 1955 | Mark Robson | Drama | 6.9 (1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Untouchable, The [L'intouchable]Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago. | 1959 | Walter Grauman, Stuart Rosenberg, Paul Wendkos, John Peyser, Robert Butler | Action, Crime, Drama | 8.0 (2.8K votes) | 31 | 20221116 |
| 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. | 1987 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (299.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Walk on the Wild SideA man arrives in New Orleans searching for his former girlfriend, an artist who now works in a bordello. | 1962 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (2.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2011 | Francis Lawrence | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (115.5K votes) | 120 | 20220414 |
| 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. | 1973 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (24.3K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1949 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 8.1 (32K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1933 | William A. Wellman (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.5 (1.9K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1960 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama, History, Romance | 7.6 (5.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| 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 ser | 1965 | Terry O. Morse | Crime, Drama | 5.6 (133 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Hobo | 1992 | John T. Davis | Documentary | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| When the World Breaks | 2010 | Hans Fjellestad | Documentary | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | 2014 | nan | Documentary, Biography, History, War | 8.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Forgotten Village | 1941 | Alexander Hammid, Herbert Kline | Documentary, Drama | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Boardwalk Empire | 2010 | nan | Crime, Drama | 8.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Stars Fell on Henrietta | 1995 | James Keach | Drama | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Bonnie & Clyde: Justified | 2013 | David DeCoteau | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 3.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Great American Hobo | 1980 | Bobb Hopkins | Documentary, Short | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Crime of the Century | 1996 | Mark Rydell | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Whelm | 2019 | Skyler Lawson | Thriller | 3.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Black Cat Whiskey | 2013 | Michael Fredianelli | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Tramp, Tramp, Tramp | 1926 | Harry Edwards | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War | 1984 | Mary Dore, Sam Sills, Noel Buckner | Documentary | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Big Bad Mama | 1974 | Steve Carver | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Last Beyond | 2019 | Graham DuBose | Drama | 4.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Flying Irishman | 1939 | Leigh Jason | Biography, Drama | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Morning Glory | 1993 | Steven Hilliard Stern | Drama | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Dust Bowl | 2012 | nan | Documentary, History | 8.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Billion Dollar Hobo | 1977 | Stuart E. McGowan | Comedy, Family | 4.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| You Can't Get Away with It | 1936 | Charles E. Ford | Crime, Short, Documentary | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Ma Barker's Killer Brood | 1960 | Bill Karn | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Of Mice and Men | 1968 | Ted Kotcheff | Drama | 8.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Catching Out | 2003 | Sarah George | Documentary, Crime | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Last of the American Hobos | 1967 | Titus Moede | History | 5.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mad Ship | 2013 | David Mortin | Drama | 5.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Story of Hoover Dam | 1981 | nan | Documentary, Short | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Plot Against America | 2020 | nan | Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Riding the Rails | 1997 | Michael Uys, Lexy Lovell | Documentary, History | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Nothing by Chance | 1975 | William H. Barnett | Documentary | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Christmas for a Dollar | 2013 | John Lyde | Drama, Family | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Big Bad Mama II | 1987 | Jim Wynorski | Action, Comedy, Crime | 4.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Bullets Over Hollywood | 2005 | Elaina Archer | Documentary, History | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Waltons | 1972 | nan | Drama, Family, Romance | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Carnivà le | 2003 | nan | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The American Hobo | 2003 | Bobb Hopkins | Documentary | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| 12 Mighty Orphans | 2021 | Ty Roberts | History, Sport | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Prohibition | 2011 | nan | Documentary, History | 8.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Spirits of St. Paul: The Gangster Era | 2012 | Brain Crask, Gary Crask | Drama | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | 1974 | Norman Tokar | Drama, Family | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| A Sad Flower in the Sand | 2001 | Jan Louter | Documentary | 7.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Harlan County War | 2000 | Tony Bill | Drama | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Ask the Dust | 2006 | Robert Towne | Drama, Romance | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Sounder, Part 2 | 1976 | William A. Graham | Drama | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | 1975 | Philippe Mora | Documentary | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Leatherheads | 2008 | George Clooney | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Roaring 20's | 1960 | nan | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Wobblies | 1979 | Deborah Shaffer, Stewart Bird | Documentary, History | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Of Mice and Men | 1981 | Reza Badiyi | Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |