Ragtime (1981)
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. new york city, based on novel or book, jazz singer or musician, public murder, racism, class differences, pianist, ragtime, revenge killing, radical politics, piano, political scandal, racial injustice, 1900s, social scandal