ChannelHopper.org > Films set in the 1930s
Films set in the 1930s
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Mrs. Henderson Presents
This Property Is Condemned
Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent This Property Is Condemned
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His famil...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Kitty Foyle
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Kitty Foyle
Tea with Mussolini
Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Tea with Mussolini
Mr. Jones
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Mr. Jones
The Rainmaker
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, fo...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Rainmaker
Cross Creek
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yea...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Cross Creek
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
In the wake of their father’s death, two children gradually come to realize the perverse nature of their upbringing.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
Judy
Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub. While there, she reminisces wi...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Judy