In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building mission of the Communist Party and attributed to it exclusively humanitarian intentions ("Days of Betrayal", "Sokolovo", "Liberation of Prague", "The Victorious People"). In 1929, when its fifth congress met, Klement Gottwald, who had taken the line of the Russian Bolsheviks, took over the leadership of the Communists...

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...

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

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

Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-kno...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a ...

Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the mass...

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

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

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