8 1/2

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows 8 1/2

poster Standing Pat
Standing Pat
0mn -
Ton O' Fun comedy produced by Larry Darmour.
poster The Miser
The Miser
5mn - Drama
This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser keep all of his money to himself and refuses to help peo…
poster Finding His Voice
Finding His Voice
(3.1/5)
11mn - Documentary, Animation
Animated figure Talkie gets a visit from his friend Mutie in search for a job. Talkie takes him to the Western Electric sound lab...
poster Buncoed Stage Johnnie
Buncoed Stage Johnnie
2mn - Comedy
This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…
poster A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm
A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm
7mn - Comedy
An office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning.
poster A Society Sensation
A Society Sensation
(2.8/5)
25mn - Drama, Comedy
A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a meek 24 minutes so the lead would be in every scene. Titl…
poster The Funeral of Tomijiro Kobayashi
The Funeral of Tomijiro Kobayashi
8mn - Documentary
poster The Voyage of M. Bourrichon
The Voyage of M. Bourrichon
15mn -
An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.
poster American Look
American Look
(3.6/5)
28mn -
Chevrolet presents a short film about modern American design of the late 1950s.
poster Addition and Subtraction
Addition and Subtraction
1mn - Comedy
A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.
poster The Sawmill
The Sawmill
28mn - Comedy, Romance, Action
A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.
poster Tarts and Flowers
Tarts and Flowers
(3.3/5)
7mn - Animation
While waiting for her cookies to bake, Audrey dreams about a marriage between the Gingerbread Man and Angel Cake.
poster Operating on Cupid
Operating on Cupid
10mn -
A short comic film in which a young man has himself admitted to the hospital so as to see more of his girlfriend (who is a nurse there), to the displeasure of the surgeon.
poster Money Mad
Money Mad
9mn - Crime, Drama
The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple…
poster Becky Sharp
Becky Sharp
(2.9/5)
84mn - Drama, Romance
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system du…
poster A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
30mn - Drama, History
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
poster Number, Please?
Number, Please?
25mn - Comedy
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. The…
poster Leave of Absence
Leave of Absence
(2.8/5)
88mn - Drama, Short
A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
poster Sick Cylinders
Sick Cylinders
(2.9/5)
6mn - Animation
Oswald wants to take his girl Kitty for a ride, but constant mishaps such as a pesky pooch and falling boulders prevent the time from being the least bit enjoyable. In the end, Oswald loses his girl to an…
poster Sequoia
Sequoia
(3.1/5)
86mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.
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