"As three lost souls search for love, music, and hope on the snow-covered streets of Philadelphia ... they will discover life's endless possibilities over the course of one magical night"-- Madeleine is a rebellious nine-year-old-- and an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the death of her mother and caring for her father, she doggedly searches for Philadelphia's legendary jazz club The Cat's Pajamas, where she's determined to make her on-stage...

"The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally looking up for her and her sister Florence... until the...

"The world's greatest city laid bare!", roars the tagline to London in the raw (1964), a salacious documentary that tours the strip-clubs and underground dives of the still-swinging city. Exploitation maven Arnold Miller combines documentary footage with staged sequences of leering intimacy, showing the skin of belly dancers and strip-teasers once the sun sets, disappearing along with any inhibitions. As the voice-over says, "Eat a little, dance a...

"A richly imagined and stunningly inventive story of love, art, and betrayal in Paris of the 20's, 30's, and 40's"-- Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats, artists, libertines, and parvenus looking to indulge their true selves. Lou Villars, an extraordinary athlete and scandalous cross-dressing...

"New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the recent death of her father has so devastated her that her mother wants her to remain home in Baltimore to recover. Phoebe wants to return to New York, not only to chase the glamorous life she so desperately craves but also to confront Ivan, the older man who painfully wronged her. With her best friend Carmen, she escapes to the East Village,...

"Six teenagers' lives intertwine during a summer of romantic misunderstandings and dangerous deals in this retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, set in the era of Prohibition in the 1920s"--

In the small Minnesota shore town of Flame Lake, a close-knit group of friends find their comfortable lives taking some unforeseen turns. Best friends Devera and BiDi were recently voted "Least Changed" at their twentieth high school reunion, but Devera is starting to think of the label as insulting. Sure, she loves her husband and still believes being a wife and mother is the main entree on life's plate . . . but she longs for some more exotic side...

Vampire queen and nightclub owner Betsy Taylor is surprised to find she has a twenty-year-old half sister who happens to be the devil's daughter.

Wealthy Irishman J.B. Bates, whose wife of forty years left him six months previously because of his parsimony, stumbles off a pier and is saved by Judy Peabody, a hat check girl at Manhattan's famous Stork Club. Mysterioulsy, she becomes expremely wealthy.

The dashing owner of the city's hottest nightclub begins to investigate the suspicious death of his father only to have his own life start to spin out of control.