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...

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

A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

Ailing from a sickness that threatens to silence her forever, Umm Kalthoum, the greatest Egyptian si...

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most ...

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with...

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes...

After her father's death, socialite Elaine Fleetwood promises to marry a man she does not love. Howe...

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respe...

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...

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

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...

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

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

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

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

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a...