Films set in 1932

2011 film directed by Michel Hazanavicius

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.

1984 film by Sergio Leone

2014 film directed by Wes Anderson

2013 film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

2022 film directed by David Yates

2015 film directed by Lee Toland Krieger

2022 film directed by Damien Chazelle

1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack

2001 film directed by Robert Altman

1932 film directed by Karl Freund

2006 animated film

Zelig is a 1983 American satirical mockumentary comedy film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, a nondescript enigma, who, apparently out of his desire to fit in and be liked, unwittingly takes on the characteristics of strong personalities around him. The film, presented as a documentary, recounts his period of intense celebrity during the 1920s, including analyses by contemporary intellectuals.

1933 American Warner Bros. musical film

1996 film by Walter Hill

1943 film by Ernst Lubitsch

Siberiade (, translit. Sibiriada) is a 1979 Soviet historical drama film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and produced by Mosfilm. The four-part epic spans much of the 20th century.

1932 film directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel

1948 film by Henry Hathaway

1933 film by Hans Steinhoff

1999 film by Ted Demme

1973 film by Lina Wertmüller

1982 film by Fred Zinnemann

2014 film directed by Ken Loach

2001 film by Werner Herzog

1932 anthology film

1959 film by Henry King

1992 film by Arthur Hiller

1932 Mickey Mouse short by Wilfred Jackson

1932 Mickey Mouse short by Burt Gillett

2002 film by Karim Aïnouz

2000 film by Xavier Koller

Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar, and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd. The film, starring Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper and Amelia Shankley, is a fictionalised account of Alice Liddell, the child who inspired Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''.

1933 film by William A. Wellman

1975 film by Jonathan Demme

1934 film

1932 short film directed by Joe Grant

upcoming film directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi

1953 film by Jean Dréville

1955 film by Georg Marischka, O. W. Fischer

2014 film by David Ruehm

1974 film by Steve Carver

1970 film by Richard Quine