In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. Duri...

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

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. ...

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

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs afte...

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Cha...

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of...

An accident on a bridge ties together three young men from different social classes, sparking a cour...

The story of legendary jazz drummer, Gene Krupa. Since his youth, all Gene ever wanted to do is play...

After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's r...

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

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood...

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

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which th...