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7.0

The Tin Drum

May 1979 •German

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.

7.6

The Last Emperor

October 1987 •English

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

6.5

The Cotton Club

December 1984 •English

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

7.8

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb

July 2023 •English

Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.

7.7

Memoirs of a Geisha

December 2005 •English

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

7.9

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

January 1948 •English

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

5.8

Legionnaire

December 1998 •English

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.

6.9

Michael Collins

October 1996 •English

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

7.1

Chicago

December 2002 •English

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

8.4

Once Upon a Time in America

May 1984 •English

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

6.8

The Power of the Dog

October 2021 •English

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

7.5

Miller's Crossing

September 1990 •English

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

5.3

The Woman of Wrath

September 1984 •Chinese

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and tradition in Taiwan during circa 1920 to 1945.

6.6

Bugsy Malone

July 1976 •English

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.

6.9

The Tracker

August 2002 •English

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.

7.0

The Lover

January 1992 •French

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

7.4

Matewan

August 1987 •English

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

6.5

Why Be Good?

February 1929 •English

A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

6.5

Boléro

March 2024 •French

Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.

6.3

The March on Rome

October 2022 •Italian

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.

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Cast

Miroslav Zounar

Adolf Filip

Josef Langmiler

Václav Švorc

Josef Mixa

Jaroslav Drbohlav

Karel Šebesta

Jaroslav Kuneš

Jiří Ornest

Viktor Preiss

Václav Mareš

Zdeněk Ornest

Ladislav Večeřa

Ladislav Šimek

Jiřina Petrovická

Zdena Burdová

Blažena Holišová

Eva Čeřovská

Václav Lohniský

Oldřich Janovský

Bohuslav Ličman

Zdeněk Buchvaldek

Ladislav Lakomý

Miroslav Částek

Josef Čáp

Jiří Juřina

Jiří Wohanka

Walter Ruge

Karel Hábl

Antonín Hübner

Václav Král

Ludmila Roubíková

Josef Střecha

Raoul Schránil

Pavel Spálený

Josef Štefl

Antonín Vejr

Jaroslav Toms

Konstantin Kraynov

Pyotr Plakshin

František Kropáček

Zdeněk Skalický

Radoslav Bartoník

Karel Adam

Jaroslav Cmíral

František Miroslav Doubrava

Ota Žebrák

Oldřich Vykypěl

Miroslav Vlček

Jan Sedliský

Mirko Dostál

Jiří Flíček

Vladimír Fürst

Josef Rak

Jindřich Narenta

Věra Hanslíková

Hugo Kaminský

Jiří Holeček

Jindřich Heidelberg

Jiří Brož

Monika Vacková

Markéta Langrová

Jan Pohan

Zdeněk Braunschläger

Vlastimil Čaněk

Jan Kotva

Josef Kubíček

Gustav Vondráček

Jiří Zavřel

Roman Holát

Antonín Tříska

Vladimír Hrabánek

Aleš Košnar

Jan Hájek

Jaroslav Vich