Category
page 1Films set in 1934

The King's Speech
2010 British film directed by Tom Hooper

Bonnie and Clyde
1967 US film by Arthur Penn
Public Enemies
2009 film directed by Michael Mann

Murder on the Orient Express
2017 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

Mank
Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane. It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossman, and Charles Dance.

The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981 film by Bob Rafelson

The Damned
1969 film by Luchino Visconti

Victor Victoria
Victor/Victoria is a 1982 musical comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Tony Adams and scored by Henry Mancini, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Score.

Scarlet Street
1945 film by Fritz Lang

Race
2016 film by Stephen Hopkins

The Highwaymen
2019 film directed by John Lee Hancock

Portrait of Jennie
1948 film directed by William Dieterle

Radioactive
2019 film directed by Marjane Satrapi

Bent
1997 film by Sean Mathias

Stavisky
Stavisky... is a 1974 French biographical drama film based on the life of the financier and embezzler Alexandre Stavisky and the circumstances leading to his mysterious death in 1934. This gave rise to a political scandal known as the Stavisky Affair, which led to fatal riots in Paris, the resignation of two prime ministers and a change of government. The film was directed by Alain Resnais and featured Jean-Paul Belmondo as Stavisky and Anny Duperey as his wife, Arlette. Stephen Sondheim wrote the film's musical score.

Grey Owl
1999 film directed by Richard Attenborough

Vabank
Vabank is a 1981 Polish comedy heist film written and directed by Juliusz Machulski, set in 1934 Warsaw (although actually filmed in Łódź and Piotrków Trybunalski).

Hoodlum
1997 film by Bill Duke

The FBI Story
1959 film by Mervyn LeRoy

Dillinger
1973 film by John Milius

The Group
1966 film by Sidney Lumet

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
2008 film directed by Patricia Rozema

Rouge
1988 film by Stanley Kwan

Pennies from Heaven
1981 film by Herbert Ross

Little Miss Marker
1980 film by Walter Bernstein

The Cat and the Canary
1978 film by Radley Metzger

The Richest Girl in the World
1934 film by William A. Seiter

Berlin 36
2009 film set in the Olympic games in fascist Germany directed by Kaspar Heidelbach

The Suspect
1975 Italian film directed by Francesco Maselli

Sardar Udham
Hindi language film

The Critic
2023 film directed by Anand Tucker

The Axe of Wandsbek
1951 film by Falk Harnack
Ethel & Ernest
2016 film by Roger Mainwood

Endless Horizons
1953 film by Jean Dréville

Invitation to a Murder
2023 film by Stephen Shimek