Сюжет фильма рассказывает историю трагической жизни Айседоры Дункан - одной из лучших танцовщиц своего времени, одной из самых свободомыслящих женщин 20-го века, в орбиту которой были вовлечены талантливейшие современники - Роден, Пикассо, Кокто, Нижинский, Дягилев, Станиславский, Сара Бернар, Анна Павлова и многие-многие другие.
Удивительная, полная бурных страстей и глубоких трагедий, судьба «божественной босоножки» - величайшей танцовщицы и актрисы, которая покорила поклонников балета в Европе и Соединенных Штатах и даже завоевала «красную Россию», а вместе с ней и сердце ее замечательного поэта Сергея Есенина.
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
