Nhân vật nữ chính là Satine (Nicole Kidman) - một cô kỹ nữ, và nam chính là Christian (Ewan McGregor) - một nhà văn mới vào nghề. Christian được một hội nhạc kịch nghèo bảo trợ, đưa vào Moulin Rouge - một nhà chứa nổi tiếng để tìm cảm hứng viết văn thơ, kịch bản. Satine là kỹ nữ nổi tiếng xinh đẹp và nhiều người ham muốn nhất Moulin Rouge. Do sự sắp đặt của đám nghệ sĩ nghèo, Christian đã vào phòng của Satine để gặp mặt, lấy cảm hứng. Satine thì nhầm tưởng anh là Công tước nên ra sức gợi tình để thỏa mãn dục vọng cho khách. Nhưng Christian rất sợ và chỉ dám làm thơ.Ngài Công tước đột nhiên xuất hiện, Satine mới biết mình nhầm. Cô đã cố gắng thu hút sự chú ý của Công tước để cho Christian thoát ra. Nhưng cuối cùng không thành. ...
A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
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.