The Song of the Black Mountains

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Runtime

2h 42m

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Cast

Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent

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 ...

Runtime

2h 43m

Director

Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast

John Lone, Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Baz Luhrmann

Cast

Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, John Leguizamo

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.

Runtime

2h 26m

Director

Rob Marshall

Cast

Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Runtime

2h 18m

Director

Otto Preminger

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.