In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

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...

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

Chicherin - Russian revolutionary, Soviet diplomat, first People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of t...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

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

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.