A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Tag: 1930s
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.
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Raven’s End
In 1936 Sweden, a teenager drifts through life in his small town, hoping that a novel about the neighborhood he grew up and lives in will reverse the fortunes of his family.
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Cats Don’t Dance
An ambitious singing and dancing cat in 1939 Hollywood overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.
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Hoodlum
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running ‘the numbers’. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth ‘Bumpy’ Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
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Dancing at Lughnasa
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
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Goodnight, Mister Tom
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
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The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
There’s not a person in the world who wouldn’t recognize Mickey Mouse. But until now, not many knew the man who originally gave shape, movement and personality to the world’s most beloved icon. “The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story” takes you behind the scenes to meet Walt Disney’s best friend and chief animator.
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In a Savage Land
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.
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Cradle Will Rock
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.