À la fin du XIXe siècle, dans le Paris de la Belle Époque, Christian, un jeune poète désargenté, s'installe dans le quartier de Montmartre. Il découvre un univers où se mêlent sexe, drogue et french cancan, mais se rebelle contre ce milieu décadent en menant une vie de bohème. Christian rêve d'écrire une grande pièce, et le peintre Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec est prêt à lui donner sa chance. Celui-ci a besoin d'un spectacle grandiose pour le Moulin Rouge et le poète est embauché pour rédiger le livret de la revue. C'est là qu'il tombe amoureux de la courtisane Satine, la star du prodigieux cabaret....
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
Loïe Fuller, une jeune femme du grand ouest étasunien, devient la vedette des Folies Bergère et une icône des cabarets parisiens au début du 20ème siècle, durant la Belle Époque. Créatrice de la danse serpentine, elle est pionnière de la danse moderne et des techniques d'éclairage. Mais la tubulente rélation qu'elle entretient avec sa protégée, Isadora Duncan, va précipiter sa chute.
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
With the help of her delivery-boy friend, Dilili, a young Kanak, investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing Belle Epoque Paris. In the course of her investigation she encounters a series of extraordinary characters, each of whom provides her with clues that will help her in her quest.
In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended family—including his son's, young Eduardo De Filippo.
In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.
The Bokelberg photographic collection brings to life the Paris of the Belle Époque (1871-1914), an exhibition of workshops and stores with extremely beautiful shop windows before which the owners and their employees proudly pose, hiding behind their eyes the secret history of a great era.
Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 1890-1914, a time in which the wealthy upper classes of the Western world gave themselves over to a life of elegance and taste-making, their eyes closed to the increasing social and political turmoil fermenting beneath the surface of polite society. The program uses period motion pictures, photographs, and sound recordings, as well as the arts and fashions of the period to supplement the spoken memories of the participating interviewees who actually lived... La Belle Epoque.