30s movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant 30s movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, period drama, serious, clever, stylized and period piece films and TV shows about / with love and romance, love, couples, dialogue, mentor, male nudity, storytelling, world war two, friendship and interwar period plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as 30s: The Heart of Me (2002), A Good Woman (2004), Gosford Park (2001), What the Day Owes the Night (2012), A Handful of Dust (1988), Mildred Pierce (2011), My Family and Other Animals (2005), A Month by the Lake (1995), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Cable Girls (2017).
Best films
New films
| Brecht (2019) | 6.3 | |
| Seaside Lover (2023) | 6.1 | |
| Sami Blood (2016) | 7.3 | |
| Kano (2014) | 7.7 | |
| The Chosen (2017) | 9.2 |
List of 30s movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, infidelity, betrayal, unfaithful husband, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar ...
Style:
witty, period piece, clever, semi serious, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
femme fatale, infidelity, slut, high society, justice, betrayal, farce, rich man, marriage proposal, love and romance, social differences, women ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
italy, europe, new york, southern italy, england ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Style:
detective, period piece, costume drama, biting, satirical ...
Plot:
murder, whodunit, society, murder mystery, country estate, estate, high society, murder investigation, butler, police investigation, twists and turns, servant ...
Time:
1930s, year 1932, 20th century, pre world war two, year 2001 ...
Place:
england, detroit, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
young lovers, french algerian war, friendship, teenage love, revolution, love and romance, political unrest, friends, youth, true love, love story, muslim girl ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 60s ...
Place:
algeria
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.We see the detritus of an abandoned camp in South America and a main character's hallucination. Then, the story beings. Tony and Brenda Last, ...
Style:
costume drama, stylized, contemplative, biting, serious ...
Plot:
class differences, country estate, love, catholic, literary, mansion, affair, country house, dealing with death, crumbling marriage, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
brazil, england, europe, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A newly divorced, uniquely independent woman struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family in Depression-era California.
Style:
emotional, clever, costume drama, period piece, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
housewife, single parent, tragic event, struggle, divorce, depression, friendship, lovers, ambitious, social differences, heroine, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, glendale california, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
wildlife, greek, sibling relationship, orphan, misfit, friendship, siblings relations, eccentric family, parents and children, death in the family, family life, social relations ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
greece, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, witty, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
true love, lake, forbidden love, hotel, love, summer, age-gap relationship, lesbian love, summer vacation, interwar period, love triangle, resort ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1937, pre world war two
Place:
italy, switzerland, europe, venice
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance ...
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, witty, surreal, visually appealing ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
hotel, art theft, mentor, mentor protege relationship, prison escape, murder, escapades, twists and turns, gunfight, painting, fictional country, lawyer ...
Time:
1930s, year 2014, 20th century, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
eastern europe, alps, europe, persia, america ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.
Style:
stylized, romantic, period piece, captivating, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
female protagonist, female friendship, job, workplace, women, independence, love and romance, workplace romance, female nudity, spanish civil war, woman, class differences ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
spain, new mexico
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town in Bavaria. When one of the passengers, a kindly old lady, mysteriously disappears the other ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
missing person, amateur detective, mind game, secret agent, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, american abroad, train, world war two, railway, intrigue ...
Time:
1930s, year 1979, pre world war two, year 1939
Place:
germany, london, austria
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. The series was a collaboration between Brian Eastman of Picture Partnership Productions and Granada Television.
It ...
Style:
witty, humorous, clever, hilarious, multicultural ...
Plot:
servant, butler, valet, master and servant, master servant relationship, domestic servant, boss and employee, bachelor, friendship between men, aristocracy, mishap, power relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
england, london, usa, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, friends, friendship, military, life is a bitch, soldier, wartime life, moral dilemma, holocaust, against humanity, concentration camp, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is ...
Style:
melancholic, absurd, sincere, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
priest in love, adultery, love triangle, dangerous attraction, human nature, family problems, fall in love, society, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, murder, surrogate father ...
Time:
1930s, year 1998, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
boston, usa, europe, england, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story:
True Story about the Atlantic Ferry Operation during World War II.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot:
world war two, post war, captain, military, danger, love affair, love and romance, wartime life, relationship vs career, heroes, against the odds, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
europe, canada, newfoundland, england, london
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Style:
touching, philosophical, sentimental, dramatic, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
destiny, true love, life philosophy, life & death, aging, existentialism, love and romance, life changing, melancholy, magic realism, love, life lesson ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place:
southern usa, cambodia, usa, new orleans, russia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In this eleven parts British television serial, Charles Ryder's involvement with members of the aristocratic Marchmain/Flyte family is followed throughout the years between the two World Wars.
Style:
costume drama, avant garde, historical drama, sitcom, spiritual ...
Plot:
world war two, friendship, closeted homosexual, gay, atheist, homosexuality, catholicism, homosexual subtext, voice over narration, religion, forbidden love, illicit love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
oxford university, england, venice, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Style:
visually stunning, period piece, intense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, mafia, gangster, music, nightclub, prohibition, love triangle, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, flapper, mob boss ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929, 70s ...
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
The life of Christ through the eyes of those who encountered him called The Chosen.
Style:
biblical, psychological, thrilling, historical drama, inspirational ...
Plot:
christian, jesus, bible, christianity, messiah, forgiveness, apostle, new testament, faith, bible story, life, gospel ...
Time:
1st century, 1930s
Place:
jerusalem, palestine
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, love, racism, atomic bomb, family relations, culture clash, war, interracial romance, hospital, death, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 1936, 1930s, 20th century, year 1941 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, seattle ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, period piece, stylized, lyrical ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
castle, writers, coming of age, family drama, eccentricity, beautiful scenery, eccentric family, siblings relations, unrequited love, sisters, sister sister relationship, first love ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936, year 2003, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A telling of the story of the famous U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart who attempted to fly solo around the world in 1937. She disappeared during the process.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious
Plot:
aviation, biopic, airplane, adventurer, world war one, traveler, female pilot, mysterious disappearance, gender, ambition, feminism, escapades ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
usa, pacific ocean
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 229 min.
Story:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style:
ambiguous ending, melancholic, epic, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, friendship, prohibition, rape, betrayal, childhood friend, gunfight, murder, corruption, flashback ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1984 ...
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, america, china ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, ...
Style:
touching, sincere, romantic, surprise ending, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pregnancy, happy ending, large family, lovers apart, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, parents and children, widower, presumed dead, first love, summer, single mother ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1939, year 1940, 50s
Place:
france, provence, europe, south of france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style:
serious, stylized, period piece, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, writers, war correspondent, divorce, biopic, media, spanish civil war, journalism, journalist, fame, world war two, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975.
Set in a large townhouse in Edwardian, First ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
butler, domestic servant, maid, working class, wealth, master servant relationship, high society, master and servant, lifestyle, couples, rich and poor, couple relations ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, year 1971, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place:
england, london, hawaii, britain, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
in the 1930’s a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things.” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is ...
Style:
witty, costume drama, stylized, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, homosexual, orgy, love triangle, writers, love and romance, love affair, flapper, gay, world war two, husband wife relationship, social commentary ...
Time:
1930s, year 2003, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
england, london, europe, dover england, cannes ...
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
Style:
not serious, humorous, feel good, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
backstage, moral dilemma, boxing, nightclub, chorus girl, terminal illness, desire for fame, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, ambition, artists and showbiz, showbiz ...
Time:
1930s, year 1978
Place:
california, new york
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of ...
Style:
touching, breathtaking, sincere, inspirational, sentimental ...
Plot:
jazz, music, ship, genius, musician, prodigy, pianist, child prodigy, loneliness, cruise ship, trumpet player, piano ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 90s, year 1998, 1920s ...
Place:
america, italy, new york, new orleans
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
Style:
intense, suspense, sexy, period piece, neo noir ...
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, gang, gangster, bootlegging, violence, vigilante, greed, corruption, prohibition era, prohibition, robbery ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2012, 2010s, year 1931 ...
Place:
virginia, usa, appalachia, america, north america ...
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