Movies Set in the 1930s
Kinora's catalogue lists 103 films set in the 1930s, spanning 1931–2025. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 1976
1900
Ruraldir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 2000
A Dog's Will
Rural · Desertdir. Guel Arraes - 1977
A Special Day
Urbandir. Ettore Scola - 1973
Amarcord
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Federico Fellini - 1999
Angela's Ashes
Urbandir. Alan Parker - 2007
Atonement
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Joe Wright - 2022
Babylon
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Ruraldir. Arthur Penn - 1938
Bringing Up Baby
Ruraldir. Howard Hawks - 1972
Cabaret
Urbandir. Bob Fosse - 1948
Call Northside 777
Urbandir. Henry Hathaway - 2008
Changeling
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 1974
Chinatown
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1941
Citizen Kane
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 2012
Cloud Atlas
Urban · Island · Coastal Sea · Off Worlddir. Lilly Wachowski - 1978
Death on the Nile
Desertdir. John Guillermin - 1944
Double Indemnity
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 1990
Europa Europa
Urbandir. Agnieszka Holland - 1993
Farewell My Concubine
Urbandir. Chen Kaige - 1940
Foreign Correspondent
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1982
Gandhi
Urban · Ruraldir. Richard Attenborough - 1956
Giant
Ruraldir. George Stevens - 2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Mark Gustafson - 2016
In This Corner of the World
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sunao Katabuchi - 1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Desert · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1984
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Wilderness · Underground · Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 2008
Ip Man
Urbandir. Wilson Yip - 1934
It Happened One Night
Urbandir. Frank Capra - 1946
It's a Wonderful Life
Ruraldir. Frank Capra - 1997
Kundun
Mountain · Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1995
Land and Freedom
Rural · Urbandir. Ken Loach - 2012
Lawless
Ruraldir. John Hillcoat - 1997
Life Is Beautiful
Urbandir. Roberto Benigni - 1931
M
Urbandir. Fritz Lang - 1986
Manon of the Spring
Rural · Mountaindir. Claude Berri - 2016
Maudie
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aisling Walsh - 2002
Millennium Actress
Urbandir. Satoshi Kon - 1975
Mirror
Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 1936
Modern Times
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 1947
Monsieur Verdoux
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 1942
Mrs. Miniver
Ruraldir. William Wyler - 1974
Murder on the Orient Express
Mountaindir. Sidney Lumet - 1989
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Urbandir. Jim Sheridan - 2021
Nightmare Alley
Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro - 2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 1992
Of Mice and Men
Ruraldir. Gary Sinise - 1984
Once Upon a Time in America
Urbandir. Sergio Leone - 2023
Oppenheimer
Desert · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1973
Paper Moon
Ruraldir. Peter Bogdanovich - 1973
Papillon
Island · Wildernessdir. Franklin J. Schaffner - 1984
Places in the Heart
Ruraldir. Robert Benton - 1992
Porco Rosso
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2009
Public Enemies
Urban · Ruraldir. Michael Mann - 2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Desert · Wildernessdir. Phillip Noyce - 1987
Radio Days
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Woody Allen - 1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Desert · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1940
Rebecca
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1988
Red Sorghum
Ruraldir. Zhang Yimou - 1972
Roma
Urbandir. Federico Fellini - 1945
Scarlet Street
Urbandir. Fritz Lang - 1997
Seven Years in Tibet
Mountain · Urbandir. Jean-Jacques Annaud - 2025
Sinners
Ruraldir. Ryan Coogler - 1977
Soldier of Orange
dir. Paul Verhoeven - 1959
Suddenly, Last Summer
Urbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 1941
Sullivan's Travels
Urban · Ruraldir. Preston Sturges - 1941
Suspicion
dir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1999
Tea with Mussolini
Urbandir. Franco Zeffirelli - 1965
The Cincinnati Kid
Urbandir. Norman Jewison - 1985
The Color Purple
Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 1971
The Conformist
Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 1969
The Cremator
Urbandir. Juraj Herz - 2001
The Devil's Backbone
Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro - 1996
The English Patient
Desert · Ruraldir. Anthony Minghella - 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mountaindir. Wes Anderson - 1940
The Grapes of Wrath
Ruraldir. John Ford - 1940
The Great Dictator
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 1999
The Green Mile
Ruraldir. Frank Darabont - 2016
The Handmaiden
Ruraldir. Park Chan-wook - 2010
The King's Speech
Urbandir. Tom Hooper - 1987
The Last Emperor
Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 1998
The Legend of 1900
Coastal Seadir. Giuseppe Tornatore - 1992
The Lover
Urbandir. Jean-Jacques Annaud - 1984
The Natural
Urbandir. Barry Levinson - 1955
The Night of the Hunter
Ruraldir. Charles Laughton - 1940
The Philadelphia Story
Suburbandir. George Cukor - 1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Urbandir. Ronald Neame - 1985
The Purple Rose of Cairo
dir. Woody Allen - 1993
The Remains of the Day
Ruraldir. James Ivory - 1939
The Rules of the Game
Rural · Urbandir. Jean Renoir - 1940
The Shop Around the Corner
Urbandir. Ernst Lubitsch - 1965
The Sound of Music
Urban · Mountaindir. Robert Wise - 1973
The Sting
Urbandir. George Roy Hill - 1987
The Untouchables
Urbandir. Brian De Palma - 2013
The Wind Rises
Urban · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1939
The Wizard of Oz
Ruraldir. Victor Fleming - 1959
The World of Apu
Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 1949
They Live by Night
Ruraldir. Nicholas Ray - 1969
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sydney Pollack - 1942
To Be or Not to Be
Urbandir. Ernst Lubitsch - 1962
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ruraldir. Robert Mulligan - 1970
Tristana
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Aldrich - 1983
Zelig
Urbandir. Woody Allen
Frequently asked
How many movies are set in the 1930s?
Kinora's catalogue lists 103 films set in the 1930s, spanning 1931–2025.
What are some movies set in the 1930s?
Films set in the 1930s in our catalogue include 1900 (1976), A Dog's Will (2000), A Special Day (1977), Amarcord (1973), and Angela's Ashes (1999).
What is the oldest movie set in the 1930s?
M (1931) is the earliest film set in the 1930s in our catalogue; the most recent is Sinners (2025).