1930s Movies

A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 until the end of the Civil War in 1939.

The Chinese army stops the Japanese army in 1938 at Suzhou.

When the paperhangers go on strike, guests at a newlyweds' housewarming party try to finish the job with disastrous results.

Lucio, a piano teacher who cannot tolerate his loneliness, decides to rebuild his life based on the different ties he forges with his own students.

Four strangers meet in a mysterious home. There for different reasons, they slowly begin to realize something is terribly wrong with their...

Park Cheol-ho, a Korean who stole Japanese military funds, is captured by Pang, a Chinese who captures independence fighters. Pang hands Park over to...

The first documentary of Frank Thring’s Cities of the Empire series, this episode is about Melbourne in Victoria. It shows the city’s...

Poor countryside girl Elza has been unsuccessfully looking for a job in Riga before she gets help from an acquantance. After that, fortune seems to...

Spanish Civil War, May, 1938. Four villages in Castellón, Benassal, Albocàsser, Ares del Maestrat and Vilar de Canes, were bombed from...

Two young Hollywood hopefuls meet during their 1930s screen test. As the story progresses, this film noir portrays the boys slowly becoming enamored...

1936. In a village in the Bassa Padana, a beautiful and shapely forty-year-old girl is aunt of some boys in the middle of their sexual maturity.

Riga in the 30s. Wild bohemian lifestyle is the name of the game for every artist worth his salt. A young man from the countryside, poor but...

A thriller set in 1932 about two nurses trapped in a country mansion with their invalid patient whilst a killer is on the loose. A series of...

Set in 1934 Siam, the story involves a young pregnant woman named Nualchan who's searching for her missing husband. She comes to stay in the spooky...

Musical comedy.

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those who in the 1930s determined the pulse of the...

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conservative.