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Great Depression films

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1999 film directed by Frank Darabont

1936 comedy film by Charles Chaplin

Bonnie and Clyde

1967 US film by Arthur Penn

1973 film by George Roy Hill

To Kill a Mockingbird

1962 film by Robert Mulligan

1992 film by Hayao Miyazaki

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2000 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

Mary Poppins Returns

2018 film directed by Rob Marshall

Sinners (2025 film)

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.

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1985 film by Woody Allen

The Grapes of Wrath

1940 film by John Ford

Road to Perdition

2002 film by Sam Mendes

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack

2004 film by Ron Howard

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.

Water for Elephants

2011 film by Francis Lawrence

2003 film directed by Gary Ross

Sullivan's Travels

1941 film by Preston Sturges

1973 film by Peter Bogdanovich

2022 film directed by David O. Russell

Places in the Heart

1984 British film by Robert Benton

The Petrified Forest

1936 film by Archie Mayo

Sweet and Lowdown

1999 film by Woody Allen

The Roaring Twenties

1939 film by Raoul Walsh

We're No Angels

1989 film by Neil Jordan

Bound for Glory

1976 film by Hal Ashby

1982 film directed by John Huston

1987 film by Héctor Babenco

Of Mice and Men

1939 film by Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt

Of Mice and Men

1992 film directed by Gary Sinise

1972 film by Martin Scorsese

Dinner at Eight

1933 film by George Cukor

Gold Diggers of 1933

1933 film by Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley

1972 film by Martin Ritt

1932 film by Slatan Dudow

The Piano Lesson

2024 film directed by Malcolm Washington

Emperor of the North Pole

1973 film directed by Robert Aldrich

The Journey of Natty Gann

1985 film by Jeremy Kagan

1941 film by John Ford

1975 film by Walter Hill

Thieves Like Us

1974 film by Robert Altman

King of the Hill

1993 film by Steven Soderbergh

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

2008 film directed by Patricia Rozema

Pennies from Heaven

1981 film by Herbert Ross

Christmas in July

1940 film by Preston Sturges

1995 film by Steven Soderbergh

1999 film directed by Rob Marshall

Made for Each Other

1938 film by John Cromwell

1980 film by Wolf Gremm

2002 Dutch film by Maria Peters

Heroes for Sale

1933 film by William A. Wellman

2000 film by Stephen Frears

1936 Mickey Mouse short directed by Ben Sharpsteen

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

1933 film by Lewis Milestone

1936 film directed by Hiroshi Shimizu

Charley and the Angel

1973 film by Vincent McEveety

Gabriel Over the White House

1933 film directed by Gregory La Cava

Misère au Borinage

1933 film by Joris Ivens, Henri Storck

Mickey's Good Deed

1932 Mickey Mouse short by Burt Gillett

Looking Forward

1933 film by Clarence Brown