Beat

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.

Runtime

3h 43m

Director

Theo Angelopoulos

Cast

Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Vangelis Kazan

When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Herbert Ross

Cast

Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Lori Singer

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.

Runtime

1h 56m

Director

Adam Shankman

Cast

Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for ...

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Mark Sandrich

Cast

Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Éric Guirado

Cast

Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval