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...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish Englis...

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an India...

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed w...

A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling ...

In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dance...
Fanny Hobichler, a young promising actress, moves to Vienna in the 1920s in order to pursue her big ...

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoo...

In the late 1920s, Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family ...

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a ...

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue ...

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passi...

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

A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trap...

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

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...

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

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

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