Filme, sutuoktinių Benksų poros vaikai – Maiklas (akt. Ben Whishaw) ir Džeinė (akt. Emily Mortimer) jau užaugo ir suaugo, o Maiklas su trimis vaikais ir jų namų šeimininke Ellen (akt. Julie Walters) gyvena Vyšnių gatvelėje. Po to, kai Maiklas susiduria su skaudžiu praradimu, paslaptingoji auklė Merė Popins sugrįžta į Benksų šeimos gyvenimą ir, kartu su optimistišku gatvių šviestuvų meistru Džeku (akt. Lin-Manuel Miranda), panaudodama savo unikalius magiškus sugebėjimus padeda šeimai iš naujo atrasti džiaugsmą ir stebuklus, kurių taip trūksta jų gyvenime. Merė Popins – nuostabi auklė, draugė ir patarėja, ji ypač nuovoki ir greit supažindina vaikus su daug naujų keistų žmonių, pavyzdžiui, su savo ekscentriškojo pusbrolio žmona Topsy (akt. Meryl Streep). Nuostabi, spalvinga ir juokinga istorija visai šeimai sugrąžins į vaikystę ir parodys pasaulį vaikų akimis.
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.
Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of them falls in love while they plan a final heist before going their separate ways.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.
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