Movies Set in the 1930s

Kinora's catalogue lists 34 films set in the 1930s, spanning 1931–2023. 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 · 2000s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Sea · Undergrounddir. Joe Wright
• 2022

  Babylon

  Los Angeles · New York City — 1920s · 1930s · 1950s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Damien Chazelle
• 1967

  Bonnie and Clyde

  Texas — 1930s
  Rural · Urbandir. Arthur Penn
• 1938

  Bringing Up Baby

  Connecticut — 1930s
  Rural · Urbandir. Howard Hawks
• 1972

  Cabaret

  Berlin — 1930s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Bob Fosse
• 1974

  Chinatown

  Los Angeles — 1930s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 1941

  Citizen Kane

  Florida · New York City · Colorado — 1800s · 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Orson Welles
• 1931

  City Lights

  Los Angeles — 1930s
  Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin
• 1944

  Double Indemnity

  Los Angeles — 1930s
  Urbandir. Billy Wilder
• 1993

  Farewell My Concubine

  Beijing — 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Chen Kaige
• 1934

  It Happened One Night

  New York City · Miami — 1930s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Frank Capra
• 1962

  Jules and Jim

  Paris · Black Forest — 1910s · 1920s · 1930s
  Urban · Rural · Coastal Seadir. François Truffaut
• 2023

  Killers of the Flower Moon

  Oklahoma — 1920s · 1930s
  Ruraldir. Martin Scorsese
• 1962

  Lawrence of Arabia

  Cairo · Damascus — 1910s · 1930s
  Desert · Urbandir. David Lean
• 1931

  M

  Berlin — 1930s
  Urbandir. Fritz Lang
• 1975

  Mirror

  Russia — 1930s · 1940s · 1960s · 1970s
  Rural · Urbandir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 1936

  Modern Times

  United States — 1930s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Charlie Chaplin
• 2000

  O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  Mississippi — 1930s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Joel Coen
• 1984

  Once Upon a Time in America

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

  Oppenheimer

  Los Alamos · New Mexico — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Christopher Nolan
• 1981

  Raiders of the Lost Ark

  Cairo · Washington, D.C. — 1930s
  Wilderness · Urban · Coastal Sea · Island · Undergrounddir. Steven Spielberg
• 1940

  Rebecca

  Monte Carlo · Cornwall — 1930s
  Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 2011

  The Artist

  Los Angeles — 1920s · 1930s
  Urbandir. Michel Hazanavicius
• 1971

  The Conformist

  Paris · Rome — 1910s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Rural · Mountaindir. Bernardo Bertolucci
• 2014

  The Grand Budapest Hotel

  1930s · 1960s · 1980s
  Urban · Mountain · Ruraldir. Wes Anderson
• 1940

  The Grapes of Wrath

  Oklahoma · California — 1930s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. John Ford
• 1940

  The Great Dictator

  1910s · 1930s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Charlie Chaplin
• 2016

  The Handmaiden

  Korea — 1930s
  Rural · Urbandir. Park Chan-wook
• 2002

  The Pianist

  Warsaw — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 1939

  The Rules of the Game

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

  The Sting

  Chicago · Joliet — 1930s
  Urbandir. George Roy Hill
• 1987

  The Untouchables

  Chicago — 1930s
  Urbandir. Brian De Palma
• 1939

  The Wizard of Oz

  Kansas — 1930s
  Rural · Urbandir. Victor Fleming
• 1959

  The World of Apu

  Calcutta — 1930s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray