1930s English-language films

The Good Earth

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1937 IMDB Rating: 7.5

China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the tempta...

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Block-Heads

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1938 IMDB Rating: 7.5

It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan...

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Wild Boys of the Road

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1933 IMDB Rating: 7.5

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop...

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Young Mr. Lincoln

Film Age rating: 1 Year: 1939 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tr...

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Oh, Mr. Porter!

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1937 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilariou...

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Blotto

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1930 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.

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American Madness

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1932 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an af...

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Dracula

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1931 IMDB Rating: 7.4

British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London and is, unbeknownst to Renfield, a vampire. After Dracu...

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