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overview : A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the …

overview : An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from …

overview : Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, …

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

overview : Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Latvian clay for export. Many …

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

overview : Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, …

overview : New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of …

overview : Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-known writer has …

overview : 'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt …

overview : England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind …

overview : Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But …

overview : How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population …

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

overview : An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he …

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overview : A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once …

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