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...

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

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

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Ran...

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

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...

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

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

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...

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

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

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow pat...

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering ...

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

Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and priv...

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to co...

Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.

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

The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his elev...