Movies Set in the 1930s

Kinora's catalogue lists 52 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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• 2007

  Atonement

  London — 1930s · 1940s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Joe Wright
• 2022

  Babylon

  Los Angeles · New York City — 1920s · 1930s
  Urbandir. Damien Chazelle
• 1967

  Bonnie and Clyde

  Texas — 1930s
  Ruraldir. Arthur Penn
• 1938

  Bringing Up Baby

  Connecticut — 1930s
  Ruraldir. Howard Hawks
• 1972

  Cabaret

  Berlin — 1930s
  Urbandir. Bob Fosse
• 2008

  Changeling

  Los Angeles — 1920s · 1930s
  Urbandir. Clint Eastwood
• 1974

  Chinatown

  Los Angeles — 1930s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 1941

  Citizen Kane

  New York City — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s
  Urbandir. Orson Welles
• 2012

  Cloud Atlas

  San Francisco · London · Hawaii · Chatham Islands — 1800s · 1930s · 1970s · 2010s · Far Future
  Urban · Island · Coastal Sea · Off Worlddir. Lilly Wachowski
• 1944

  Double Indemnity

  Los Angeles — 1930s
  Urbandir. Billy Wilder
• 1993

  Farewell My Concubine

  Beijing — 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Chen Kaige
• 1982

  Gandhi

  India · South Africa — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Richard Attenborough
• 2022

  Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

  Italy — 1910s · 1930s · 1940s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Mark Gustafson
• 2016

  In This Corner of the World

  Hiroshima · Kure — 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sunao Katabuchi
• 2008

  Ip Man

  Foshan — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Wilson Yip
• 1934

  It Happened One Night

  New York City · Florida — 1930s
  Urbandir. Frank Capra
• 2012

  Lawless

  Virginia — 1930s
  Ruraldir. John Hillcoat
• 1997

  Life Is Beautiful

  Italy — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Roberto Benigni
• 1931

  M

  Berlin — 1930s
  Urbandir. Fritz Lang
• 2016

  Maudie

  Nova Scotia — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aisling Walsh
• 2002

  Millennium Actress

  Japan · Manchuria — 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 2000s
  Urbandir. Satoshi Kon
• 1975

  Mirror

  Russia — 1930s · 1940s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 1936

  Modern Times

  1930s
  Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin
• 2021

  Nightmare Alley

  Buffalo — 1930s · 1940s
  Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro
• 2000

  O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  1930s
  Ruraldir. Joel Coen
• 1984

  Once Upon a Time in America

  New York City — 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Sergio Leone
• 2023

  Oppenheimer

  Los Alamos · Princeton — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
  Desert · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan
• 1973

  Paper Moon

  Kansas · Missouri — 1930s
  Ruraldir. Peter Bogdanovich
• 1973

  Papillon

  French Guiana — 1930s · 1940s
  Island · Wildernessdir. Franklin J. Schaffner
• 1992

  Porco Rosso

  Milan · Italy — 1920s · 1930s
  Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 2009

  Public Enemies

  Chicago · Indiana · Wisconsin — 1930s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Michael Mann
• 2002

  Rabbit-Proof Fence

  Australia — 1930s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. Phillip Noyce
• 1981

  Raiders of the Lost Ark

  Cairo · Nepal — 1930s
  Desert · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 1940

  Rebecca

  Monte Carlo · Cornwall — 1930s
  Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 2025

  Sinners

  Mississippi · Chicago — 1930s · 1990s
  Ruraldir. Ryan Coogler
• 1985

  The Color Purple

  Georgia — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s
  Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg
• 1971

  The Conformist

  Paris · Rome — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci
• 2001

  The Devil's Backbone

  Spain — 1930s
  Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro
• 2014

  The Grand Budapest Hotel

  1930s · 1960s
  Mountaindir. Wes Anderson
• 1940

  The Grapes of Wrath

  Oklahoma · California — 1930s
  Ruraldir. John Ford
• 1940

  The Great Dictator

  1930s
  Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin
• 1999

  The Green Mile

  1930s · 1990s
  Ruraldir. Frank Darabont
• 2016

  The Handmaiden

  South Korea — 1930s
  Ruraldir. Park Chan-wook
• 2010

  The King's Speech

  London — 1920s · 1930s
  Urbandir. Tom Hooper
• 1940

  The Philadelphia Story

  Philadelphia — 1930s
  Suburbandir. George Cukor
• 1939

  The Rules of the Game

  Paris — 1930s
  Rural · Urbandir. Jean Renoir
• 1973

  The Sting

  Chicago — 1930s
  Urbandir. George Roy Hill
• 1987

  The Untouchables

  Chicago — 1930s
  Urbandir. Brian De Palma
• 2013

  The Wind Rises

  Japan · Germany — 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 1939

  The Wizard of Oz

  1930s
  Ruraldir. Victor Fleming
• 1959

  The World of Apu

  Kolkata — 1930s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray
• 1983

  Zelig

  Germany — 1920s · 1930s
  Urbandir. Woody Allen