1930s
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    Public Enemies (2009)

    The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty...

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    King Kong (2005)

    Members (Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody) of a film crew encounter prehistoric beasts and a...

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    Cinderella Man (2005)

    Despite a string of losses and injuries, boxer Jim Braddock (Russell Crowe) makes a dramatic...

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    A Good Woman (2006)

    A 1930s society vamp (Helen Hunt) leaves New York behind for Italy, where she worms her way into the...

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    Dillinger (1973)

    Midwestern FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Ben Johnson) hunts gangster John Dillinger (Warren Oates),...

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    Everyone's Hero (2006)

    A boy (Jake T. Austin) begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding...

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    Ask the Dust (2006)

    In Depression-era Los Angeles, a fiery Mexican waitress (Salma Hayek) who wants to improve her lot...

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    Funny Lady (1975)

    Divorced from gambler Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif), Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand)...

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    Head in the Clouds (2004)

    World War II threatens the bond among a wild photographer (Charlize Theron), a Spanish refugee...

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    Being Julia (2004)

    In 1938 London a theatrical actress (Annette Bening) devises an elaborate scheme against the social...

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    Bound For Glory (1976)

    Folk singer Woody Guthrie (David Carradine) tours Depression-era work camps and spreads his word by...

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    Henry & June (1990)

    Writer Henry Miller (Fred Ward), wife June (Uma Thurman) and writer Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros)...

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    Dogville (2004)

    On the run from gangsters, a woman (Nicole Kidman) agrees to work for residents of a small town in...

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    I Served the King of England (2008)

    During World War II an opportunistic Czech waiter (Ivan Barnev) climbs the ladder of success and...

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    O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

    A mysterious lawman tracks three escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson)...

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    Bay Boy (1984)

    A confused teenager (Kiefer Sutherland) in 1937 Nova Scotia sees his two girlfriends' policeman...

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    Manderlay (2006)

    In 1933 a young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) discovers an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live...

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    Cabaret (1972)

    Multiple Oscars went to this tale about an American chanteuse in Berlin caught in the rising tide of...

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    Gypsy (1962)

    One of a stage mother's (Rosalind Russell) daughters quits, and the other (Natalie Wood) becomes...

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    Cradle Will Rock (1999)

    Orson Welles and John Houseman struggle in 1936 to open the play ``The Cradle Will Rock'' after U.S....

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    City Heat (1984)

    A police detective (Clint Eastwood) backs up his private-eye ex-partner (Burt Reynolds) on a...

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    Victor/Victoria (1982)

    A Chicago mobster (James Garner) falls for a female impersonator (Julie Andrews), actually a woman,...

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    Inserts (1976)

    A has-been director (Richard Dreyfuss) cranks out 1930s stag films in his rococo Hollywood mansion.

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    The Carpetbaggers (1964)

    Based on the novel by Harold Robbins. A rich young executive becomes involved in many romantic...

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    Inside Daisy Clover (1966)

    An overnight starlet (Natalie Wood) marries a homosexual actor (Robert Redford) and goes downhill in...

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    The Green Mile (1999)

    In 1935 a head prison guard (Tom Hanks) realizes a man (Michael Clarke Duncan) on death row may be...

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    Places in the Heart (1984)

    A widowed mother (Sally Field) fights for her cotton farm with a laborer and a blind boarder (John...

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    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

    This documentary compiles newsclips from the 1930s to chronicle the entire decade of The Great...

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    Julia (1977)

    Playwright Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) recalls World War II, her best friend (Vanessa Redgrave) and...

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    Leadbelly

    This biographical picture explores the troubled life of blues singer and master guitarist Leadbelly,...