15. Pennies from Heaven

• • MPAA
  • R

• Steve Martin
• Jack Fletcher

Salesman Arthur Parker is attempting to sell sheet music in Chicago during the Great Depression, but he is having trouble persuading reluctant music store owners to purchase what he sells. He meets...Read more Eileen, a schoolteacher, at a music store and falls in love with her, despite the fact that he is already married to the somewhat boring Joan.

14. Water for Elephants

• Reese Witherspoon
• Robert Pattinson

The storyline revolves around a student who abandons his studies after his parents’ death, and joins a traveling circus. Where he works as a veterinarian, he meets a beautiful girl and falls in love...Read more with her.

13. The Public Enemy

• • MPAA
  • NR

• James Cagney
• Jean Harlow

The film follows the rise and fall of the lifelong friends, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, who came from humble beginnings as Irish-Americans in the early 1900s Chicago and climbed their way to the top of...Read more organized crime. But as they became powerful, their lust for revenge knew no limits.

12. Annie

• • MPAA
  • G

• Aileen Quinn
• Carol Burnett

Annie lives in a miserable orphanage run by tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her luck changes when she is chosen to spend a short time in the estate of the wealthy industrialist, Oliver Warbucks. She...Read more captures the hearts of the household staff ,including Warbucks himself, who helps her find her long lost parents.

11. Paper Moon

• Ryan O'Neal
• Tatum O'Neal

Con artist Ryan O'Neal gets involved with a young girl who might be his daughter during the Great Depression, and they become forced to form a partnership.

10. Road to Perdition

• Tyler Hoechlin
• Rob Maxey

Set in the 1930's, New York was considered a hotbed for corruption. Michael Sullivan works as a hit-man for famous kingpin John Rooney. When Rooney threatens Michael's son, Michael decides to get rid...Read more of John and show his son what his father does for a living.

9. The Sting

• • MPAA
  • Unrated

• Paul Newman
• Robert Redford

When his standard street con attracts the attention of a crime lord, grifter Johnny Hooker enlists the help of one of his partner's friends to con the murderous crime-lord as revenge for killing his...Read more partner.

8. Seabiscuit

• Tobey Maguire
• Jeff Bridges

During the Great Depression era, a general state of despair and despondency prevails, and people have to cope with their tragic losses. A group of three men manages to turn Seabiscuit, a...Read more looked-down-upon racehorse, into the most loved sports icon and a national symbol of hope.

7. Cinderella Man

• • MPAA
  • PG-13

• Russell Crowe
• Renée Zellweger

The true story of boxer James Braddock, who was a boxing champion in the 1930s until he began to suffer injuries and broke his left hand and became poor in a period where only the rich survive, how...Read more will he support himself, wife and three children with a broken hand in the winter?

6. Bonnie and Clyde

• • MPAA
  • R

• Warren Beatty
• Faye Dunaway

The true story of Bonnie and Clyde, who formed a notorious gang of bank robbers during the economic crisis in America during the 1930s, and how they evaded the police and achieved widespread fame as...Read more the press followed their crime spree.