fraeon
Films
BrowseTop 300
Series
TV ShowsAnimeTop 250 TVTop 100 Anime
Games
BrowseTop 100
Books
BooksMangaComics & GNTop 125 BooksTop 100 Manga
For youTier ListsThe ArchiveLeaderboardFind people
Trending
Log inSign up free
fraeon

Everything you watch, play and read — tracked, rated and remembered in one library.

Explore

  • Films
  • TV
  • Anime
  • Games
  • Books
  • Manga

Discover

  • Trending
  • Leaderboard
  • Find people
  • Lists
  • Tier lists

Company

  • Tour
  • About
  • Community guidelines
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Contact

© 2026 fraeon. All rights reserved. ·

Metadata from TMDB, RAWG, Jikan & Open Library. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Questions or ideas? mehmet@avortas.com

HomeFeedProfile
The Fraeon Archive · The 1930s
19371939

1938

Sound found its footing and the movies found their myths: monsters, musicals and screwball wit against the Depression.

The films everyone saw

See all
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

3.6

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

3.7

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938

You Can't Take It with You

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

3.8

You Can't Take It with You

1938

Heartbeat

A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.

3.5

Heartbeat

1938

Bringing Up Baby

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

3.8

Bringing Up Baby

1938

Boys Town

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.

3.4

Boys Town

1938

The Lady Vanishes

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.

3.7

The Lady Vanishes

1938

Angels with Dirty Faces

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

3.8

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

3.5

A Christmas Carol

1938

Block-Heads

It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.

3.5

Block-Heads

1938

Jezebel

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

3.5

Jezebel

1938

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.

3.5

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

1938

La Bête Humaine

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.

3.5

La Bête Humaine

1938

Holiday

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

3.7

Holiday

1938

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

3.3

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1938

Hôtel du Nord

On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?

3.6

Hôtel du Nord

1938

Boat Builders

Mickey buys a boat kit, and enlists Goofy and Donald to help assemble it. The plans say, "so simple a child could do it", so of course, they have their share of troubles. But before long, they're ready to launch the Queen Minnie, with appropriate fanfare, at which time, all the collapsible parts collapse.

3.4

Boat Builders

1938

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.

3.5

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

1938

What the critics kept

See all
Port of Shadows

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

3.7

Port of Shadows

1938

Hidden gems of 1938loved by the few who found them

Mickey's Trailer

Goofy's in the driver's seat, Mickey's in the kitchen, and Donald's in bed in Mickey's high-tech house trailer. When Goofy comes back to eat breakfast, leaving the car on autopilot, it takes them onto a dangerous closed mountain road. When Goofy realizes this, he accidentally unhooks the trailer, sending it on a perilous route. They come very close to disaster several times, while the oblivious Goofy drives on and hooks back up to them.

3.7

Mickey's Trailer

1938

The Baker's Wife

In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work anymore. Therefore, the villagers, who initially laughed at his cuckoldry, take the matter very seriously (they want the bread) and organize a plan to find Aurelie and to bring her back to the bakery.

3.7

The Baker's Wife

1938

Pygmalion

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

3.5

Pygmalion

1938

Alexander Nevsky

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.

3.5

Alexander Nevsky

1938

Vivacious Lady

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

3.5

Vivacious Lady

1938

Porky in Wackyland

Porky Pig travels to a surreal land in order to hunt and catch the elusive Do-Do bird, reportedly the last of its kind.

3.5

Porky in Wackyland

1938

Brave Little Tailor

When a giant threatens the land, the cityfolk mistake Mickey's boast of killing seven flies with one blow to be giants. He is then forced to fight the giant for real.

3.5

Brave Little Tailor

1938

On the page

See all
The reluctant dragon

Fiction · Dragons

The reluctant dragon

Kenneth Grahame

1938

Rebecca

Married women · Cornwall (England : County)

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

1938

Homage to Catalonia

English Personal narratives · Communism

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

1938

Appointment with Death

Belgians · Belgians in fiction

Appointment with Death

Agatha Christie

1938

Brighton rock

Fiction · Gangsters

Brighton rock

Graham Greene

1938

Three guineas

War · Peace

Three guineas

Virginia Woolf

1938

La nausée

Existentialism · Fiction

La nausée

Jean-Paul Sartre

1938

Raiders of Spanish Peaks

Large type books · Fiction in English

Raiders of Spanish Peaks

Zane Grey

1938

The sword in the stone

Adaptations · Arthurian romances

The sword in the stone

T. H. White

1938

Le Corbusier

Correspondence · Sketch-books

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

1938

The Gracie Allen murder case

Fiction · Philo Vance (Fictitious character)

The Gracie Allen murder case

Willard Huntington Wright

1938

Homo Ludens

Play · Civilization

Homo Ludens

Johan Huizinga

1938

The Yearling

3rd Grade · 4th Grade

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1938

Out of the Silent Planet

Linguists · Elwin Ransom (Fictitious character)

Out of the Silent Planet

C. S. Lewis

1938

The Long Valley

Social life and customs · American Short stories

The Long Valley

John Steinbeck

1938

Ralestone Luck

American Science fiction · Nobility

Ralestone Luck

Andre Norton

1938

The joyful Delaneys

The joyful Delaneys

Hugh Walpole

1938

Двенадцать стульев

Fiction · Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)

Двенадцать стульев

Илья Арнольдович Ильф

1938

More of the 1930s

The whole decade
1939193819371936193519341933193219311930
1937All decades1939