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Dillinger (1973)
Midwestern FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Ben Johnson) hunts gangster John Dillinger (Warren Oates),...
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Funny Lady (1975)
Divorced from gambler Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif), Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand)...
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The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
A young Englishman, in the 1930s, leads sixty orphaned boys on a journey across the Liu Pan Shan...
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Being Julia (2004)
In 1938 London a theatrical actress (Annette Bening) devises an elaborate scheme against the social...
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Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of...
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Gosford Park (2001)
Domestic servants and their aristocratic masters are equally suspect in the wake of a murder at a...
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Boxcar Bertha (1972)
A young woman (Barbara Hershey) robs trains with a union man (David Carradine), a gambler (Barry...
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Interno Berlinese (1986)
In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons....
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The Mummy (1932)
An Egyptian mummy (Boris Karloff) searches Cairo for the girl (Zita Johann) he thinks is his...
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Ask a Policeman (1939)
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and...
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Life (1999)
Wrongly convicted of murder, two men (Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence) become close friends during...
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Murder in the First (1995)
A young lawyer (Christian Slater) argues inhumane treatment in the murder defense of a 1930s...
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The Great Dictator (1940)
A Jewish barber looks like Adenoid Hynkel (Charles Chaplin), dictator of Tomania, who meets Benzino...
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My Man Godfrey (1936)
A Park Avenue socialite (Carole Lombard) on a scavenger hunt finds a ``forgotten man''...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
This documentary compiles newsclips from the 1930s to chronicle the entire decade of The Great...
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Julia (1977)
Playwright Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) recalls World War II, her best friend (Vanessa Redgrave) and...
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The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
A former World War I pilot (Robert Redford) barnstorms with his partner (Bo Svenson) and dogfights a...
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Leadbelly
This biographical picture explores the troubled life of blues singer and master guitarist Leadbelly,...
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Gripsholm
The summerly adventures of Kurt (Tucholsky) and girl friend staying in a Swedish castle whilst the...
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Borsalino (1970)
Two petty crooks join forces and quickly climb the underworld ladder in 1930s Marseilles.
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Bugsy Malone (1976)
Here's the basic "shtick" of Bugsy Malone: it's a gangster picture enacted by...
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the... (2000)
Filmmaker Mark Jonathan Harris documents the efforts to save Jewish children from Nazis in pre-World...
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Jacquot (1993)
The wartime childhood of French director Jacques Demy, who was filmmaker Agnes Varda's husband.
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Roma (1972)
Director Federico Fellini shows the strange Rome he sees as a boy (Stefano Majore), as a teen (Peter...
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The Rocketeer (1991)
A test pilot (Bill Campbell) turns superhero in 1938 Hollywood with a Nazi-coveted rocket backpack...
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Savages (1972)
After chancing upon an abandoned mansion, a band of savages adapt to new social codes and rituals,...
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Sounder (1972)
A sharecropper's (Paul Winfield) wife (Cicely Tyson) keeps the family together after he goes to...
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Five Days One Summer
Fred Zinnemann's final film is a meditative examination of an illicit May-December romance, set...
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Cats Don't Dance (1997)
A small-town cat lands a part in a '30s Hollywood musical but must cope with a nasty child star...
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