Films set in the 1930s

1941 American drama film directed by Orson Welles

1997 film by Roberto Benigni

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

1981 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1962 film directed by David Lean

1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella

1984 film by Steven Spielberg

2004 film directed by Martin Scorsese

1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

2008 film by David Fincher

2014 film directed by Morten Tyldum

1985 film by Sydney Pollack

1965 film directed by David Lean

2005 film directed by Peter Jackson

1987 film directed by Brian De Palma

Amarcord () is a 1973 comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano (situated near the ancient walls of Rimini) in 1930s Fascist Italy.

2009 film directed by Michael Mann

1942 film by William Wyler

Dogville is a 2003 experimental arthouse drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan, with John Hurt as the narrator. The film employs an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman on the run from mobsters who finds refuge in the tiny mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, in exchange for physical labor.

2007 film directed by Olivier Dahan

2007 film directed by Matthew Vaughn

2012 film directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis

2005 film directed by Rob Marshall

2018 film directed by Rob Marshall

1933 film by Frank Lloyd

2002 film directed by Julie Taymor

1974 film directed by Mel Brooks

1994 film directed by Edward Zwick

1994 film by Nikita Mikhalkov

2017 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

2008 Hong Kong film directed by Wilson Yip

1976 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

1973 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

1996 film directed by Alan Parker

1956 American epic Western drama film

2011 film by Clint Eastwood

1962 film by François Truffaut

2004 American biographical musical drama film

1959 film by Fred Zinnemann

1955 film by Charles Laughton

Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. The film was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch, based on a story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka marked the first comedy role for Garbo, and her penultimate film; she received her third and final Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

1979 film directed by Volker Schlöndorff

1939 film by Jean Renoir

2014 film by Brian Percival

2004 film by Ron Howard

1973 film by Sydney Pollack

2018 film directed by Marc Forster

2006 film directed by Robert De Niro

1992 film by Richard Attenborough

1997 film by Adrian Lyne

1981 film directed by István Szabó

1992 film by Spike Lee

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.

1991 film directed by Jon Avnet

1961 film by Elia Kazan

2016 film by Woody Allen

1992 film by Régis Wargnier

1995 film directed by Oliver Stone

1943 US partly-animated Disney film

2003 film directed by Gary Ross