舞台はロンドン──ミステリアスで美しい魔法使いのメリー・ポピンズが、母を亡くし、窮地に陥った家族の元に空から舞い降りた。エレガントでマナーに厳しい彼女の“上から目線”の言動と美しくも型破りな魔法によって、家族は再び希望を取り戻し始める。
幸せを運ぶ魔法使いメリー・ポピンズがディズニー史上最高のハッピーを届ける、極上のミュージカル映画が誕生！
三人組の脱獄者たちが強盗をやりながら生きている。主人公ボウイ以外のうちの一人の親戚の宿に泊まった時、ボウイはキーチという宿屋の娘に心を惹かれた。もう一人の最年長の仲間の義妹の家に泊まった時に、彼らは自分たちが高額報償金のついた指名手配中であることを知る。その後の強盗の際にボウイは交通事故に巻き込まれ、キーチのいる宿屋に匿われる。そこで、キーチと結ばれて、二人は愛を誓い合う。その後の強盗の後に最年長の仲間は死に、もう一人の仲間は刑務所に入ってしまう。ボウイとキーチは最年長の仲間の義妹が経営することになったモーテルに転がり込む。そこを拠点に、ボウイは保安官に成りすまし、生き残った方の仲間を奪還するが、仲間がキーチを侮辱したこと等に立腹したボウイは彼を車から放り出してしまう。
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
During the Great Depression, Kate (Greer Robson) is a 13-year-old girl living on New Zealand's South Island. When her mother dies and her father is offered a job in Wellington on North Island, Kate is sent to live with an aunt. The girl runs away to find her father, hopping onto a boxcar and befriending a fellow fugitive, Patrick (Peter Phelps), an emotionally battle-scarred WWI veteran fleeing the authorities after injuring a repo man. Pretending to be father and daughter, Patrick and Kate use each other for cover as they make their way across New Zealand, sleeping under the stars and championing the rights of destitute farmers and homeless squatters whose fortunes have been wiped out by economic hardship.
Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.
The joyful life story of a depression era girl from Western New York. A unique part of Americana that reminds us all of the great bounty in this land of ours. A wonderful collection of photos and film that give us a good sense of what life on a Depression-era farm could be like - no electricity, no indoor plumbing, a wood stove for heating the house, and going off to a one-room schoolhouse every day - but it isn't a grim picture because the warmth and happiness of the family is very apparent