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Tag: 1920s

  • Brideshead Revisited

    Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Based on the classic British novel by Evelyn Waugh.

  • Changeling

    Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn’t her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

  • Memoirs of a Nun

    Sister Angelika has the power of life or death over her former tormentor, now sick and placed in her care.

  • Memoirs of a Geisha

    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.

  • Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

    Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor’s work parallel Coco’s radical ideas. She wants to democratize women’s fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign. Coco is moved but Igor is inconsolable.

  • The Princess and the Frog

    A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

  • The Nutcracker

    In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.

  • Boardwalk Empire

    Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don’t apply. And the man who runs things — legally and otherwise — is the town’s treasurer, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

  • Beginning of the Great Revival

    A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

  • The Artist

    Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.