Movies and TvShows featuring "great-depression-era" theme.

Perry Mason is a defense attorney and private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Mason navigates through criminal cases with a film noir style, uncovering mysteries and fighting for justice.

Little Gloria Vanderbilt, the daughter of a rich and heavily indebted family, becomes the center of a custody battle between her alcoholic mother and her scheming sister-in-law. The story takes place during the Great Depression era and involves deceit, greed, and tabloid journalism.

Boom Town is a movie set in the 1920s during an oil boom in a small town. It follows the story of two wildcatters who become partners and face romantic rivalry, sabotage, and deception. The film portrays the challenges and successes of the oil industry during that time.

Blues in the Night (1941) is a gripping film that tells the story of a jazz musician and his band who find themselves entangled in a web of drug addiction, turmoil, and illegal gambling. Set during the Great Depression era, the film follows their journey through poverty, eviction, and encounters with crooked gamblers. With captivating performances and a soundtrack filled with soulful blues, this movie showcases the fortitude of the characters amidst their trials and tribulations.

A crooked jockey tries to reform.

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.

A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.

The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him

Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney. When the district attorney threatens to accuse the police of inefficiency in crime fighting, Garvey, who is campaigning for the office of police commissioner, promises to catch the thief in twenty-four hours.

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.

Third in the series of six Traveling Man two-reel comedy shorts. While traveling they are in need of some moonshine....

A three-minute short made in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration that urges employers to hire the unemployed.