Amongst the smoky backrooms and bubbling champagne in Harlem's legendary jazz club, hotshot dancers and virtuoso musicians mingle with the criminal underbelly of 1930s New York.

A (shortsightedly) critical and box-office flop on its initial release, Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club has now been restored and recut by the director in a shimmering new 'Encore' version. A heady blend of crime, love, music and more, The Cotton Club is a flawless chorus line dedicated to the effervescent and rapturous beauty to be found amid the harshness of life.

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