1930s movies

Hoodlum (1997)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Fishburne, Laurence | Roth, Tim | Williams, Vanessa L. | Garcia, Andy | Tyson, Cicely | McBride, Chi | Williams III, Clarence | Bradford, Richard | Atherton, William | Devine, Loretta | Latifah, Queen | Starr, Mike | Starr, Beau | Benjamin, Paul | Guzaldo, Joe
Directors: Duke, Bill
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The film focuses on the war of two gangs in 1930s Harlem for the control of illegal gaming - one headed by black strategic godfather Bumpy Johnson and another by white ruthless hothead Dutch Schultz. Negotiations proposed by white syndicate boss Lucky Luciano never get under way, blood flows and Johnson gets jailed. When Johnson is paroled, he gets the work of enforcer for mighty Stephanie “The Queen” St. Clair. She is also jailed for racketeering and when she leaves she makes him promise “no violence”.

Kansas City (1996)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Richardson, Miranda | Belafonte, Harry | Murphy, Michael | Mulroney, Dermot | Buscemi, Steve | Smith, Brooke | Adams, Jane | Feringa, Jeff | Smith, A.C. Tony | Martin, Martin | Burnes, Albert J. | Johnson, Ajia Mignon | Snay, Tim | Benbow, Tawanna
Directors: Altman, Robert
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Robert Altman’s jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930’s Kansas City. When Blondie O’Hara’s husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held at the Hey Hey Club, she lauches a desperate plan to release him. She kidnaps the wife of a powerful local politician in an attempt to blackmail him into using his connections to free Johnny. Despite this being election time, he risks exposure by putting the political machine into action to free Johnny and thereby save his wife. Mrs. Stilton, meanwhile, has befriended Blondie and is impressed by her love and devotion to Johnny, especially in contrast to her own loveless marriage.

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | War
Countries: Italy
Actors: Benigni, Roberto | Braschi, Nicoletta | Durano, Giustino | Alfonsi, Lidia | Bini Bustric, Sergio | Lojodice, Giuliana | Fontani, Amerigo | De Silva, Pietro | Guzzo, Francesco | Lebboroni, Raffaella | Cantarini, Giorgio | Paredes, Marisa | Buchholz, Horst | Alfonsi, Claudio | Baroni, Gil
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In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1981)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Lange, Jessica | Colicos, John | Lerner, Michael | Ryan, John P. | Huston, Anjelica | Traylor, William | Hill, Thomas | Van Ness, Jon | Farrell, Brian | Bond, Raleigh | Newman, William | Henderson, Albert | Magee, Ken | Peterson, Eugene
Directors: Rafelson, Bob
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This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.

Out of Africa (1985)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Streep, Meryl | Redford, Robert | Brandauer, Klaus Maria | Kitchen, Michael | Bowens, Malick | Thiaka, Joseph | Kinyanjui, Stephen | Gough, Michael | Hamilton, Suzanna | Kempson, Rachel | Crowden, Graham | Phillips, Leslie | Bugara, Mike | Rimmer, Shane | Seda, Job
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.

In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Japan
Actors: Fuji, Tatsuya | Matsuda, Eiko | Nakajima, Aoi | Matsui, Yasuko | Seri, Meika | Kobayashi, Kanae | Tonoyama, Taiji | Kokonoe, Kyôji | Shiraishi, Naomi | Noda, Shinkichi | Hori, Komikichi | Matsunoya, Kikuhei | Koyama, Akiko | Azuma, Yuriko | Minami, Rei
Directors: Oshima, Nagisa
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Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.

Amen. (2002)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: France | Germany | Romania | USA
Actors: Tuker, Ulrich | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Mühe, Ulrich | Duchaussoy, Michel | Caramitru, Ion | Iures, Marcel | von Thun, Friedrich | Schmidt, Antje | Zischler, Hanns | Koch, Sebastian | Hallhuber, Erich | Heyl, Burkhard | MacInnes, Angus | Fischerauer, Bernd | Franckh, Pierre
Directors: Costa-Gavras
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Kurt Gerstein, a brilliant German scientist, is recruited into the SS during the opening years of the Second World War. Assigned as a sanitation engineer, Gerstein is sent to the Eastern Front to supervise water purification for the German Army. Soon after, however, he is asked to help with a “special project” involving fumigation of “vermin infested” areas behind the front lines. Gerstein develops Zyklon-B, a deadly chemical gas which Gerstein believes will be put to use killing rats, lice, and other disease carrying creatures. However, when Gerstein realizes that his invention will be used to kill not animals but people, he begins an emotional search of his Christian values and ultimately decides to betray the SS by attempting to expose the Holocaust by way of informing the Catholic Church.

Cradle Will Rock (1999)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Azaria, Hank | Blades, Rubén | Cusack, Joan | Cusack, John | Elwes, Cary | Hall, Philip Baker | Jones, Cherry | Macfadyen, Angus | Murray, Bill | Redgrave, Vanessa | Sarandon, Susan | Sheridan, Jamey | Turturro, John | Watson, Emily | Balaban, Bob
Directors: Robbins, Tim
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It’s a drama about theatre life in the 1930s during the times of the Great Depression, the Red Scare (communism), facism, unions, Hitler, Mussolini, New York mayor Nelson Rockefeller, director Orson Welles, painter Diego Rivera, and William Randolph Hearst. This film focuses on the lives of several people during hard times in New York as many struggle to find their place in America. The main focus of the film is a play entitled “Cradle Will Rock,” which tells a pro-union story about lower class workers trying to survive in a growing power-hungry world.

Head in the Clouds (2004)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: Canada | Spain | UK | USA
Actors: Theron, Charlize | Townsend, Stuart | | Berkoff, Steven | Penélope Cruz | La Haye, David
Directors: John Duigan
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930’s England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated - seemingly forever.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Löwensohn, Elina | Neeson, Liam | Kingsley, Ben | Fiennes, Ralph | Goodall, Caroline | Sagall, Jonathan | Davidtz, Embeth | Gebel, Malgoscha | Levy, Shmuel | Ivanir, Mark | Macola, Béatrice | Seweryn, Andrzej | von Thun, Friedrich | Luft, Krzysztof | Nehring, Harry | Weisser, Norbert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Oskar Schindler is a vain, glorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for the good in all of us.