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...
Barcelona, Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspiciou...
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon....
During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager who...
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame ...
The merging of reality with legend, the image of reality (Ruthenian Verkhovyna in the 1920s) and its...
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangster...
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt...
Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering ...
In the 1920s, two names dominated the world's long-distance running rankings. Paavo Nurmi was a lege...
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ...
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to co...
Due to idealism, honesty and resoluteness, a driver in a transport company faces numerous problems i...
Sydney, Australia, 1920. A burnt female body is discovered. There is almost no evidence at the crime...
In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian pla...
Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric ...
In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hopes of finding...
Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Lat...
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923...
In 1925, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a...