Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the other breaks into the Social Democratic press, where he gets the chance to watch up close how the Social Democratic leadership deceives its members and enters the service of the ruling classes. And a newly-trained journalist solves the problem of whether he should also adapt to the corrupt environment...

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete...

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon....

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on t...

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame ...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession...

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangster...

February 1927: Félix Leclerc's last year with his family before attending a private college in the f...

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attem...

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search...

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle B...