A bout de souffle

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poster Onesime, Clockmaker
Onesime, Clockmaker
(3.2/5)
8mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.
poster While She Was Out
While She Was Out
90mn - Action, Adventure, Drama
A suburban housewife's routine Christmas Eve shopping trip turns into a deadly nightmare when her simple act of leaving a parking note triggers a terrifying confrontation with four violent thugs. Stranded…
poster The Weak-End Party
The Weak-End Party
9mn - Comedy
A riotous comedy of social errors, as absurd as a butler's whiskers.
poster Too Late for Tears
Too Late for Tears
(3.7/5)
99mn - Crime, Mystery
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
poster The King and the Jester
The King and the Jester
5mn - Comedy
French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).
poster Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water fro…
poster Between Calais and Dover
Between Calais and Dover
(2.7/5)
1mn - Comedy
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
poster Blonde Ice
Blonde Ice
(3/5)
73mn - Crime, Drama, Romance
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
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 Last of the Grads
Last of the Grads
113mn - Horror, Thriller
Graduating seniors celebrate their final night together at a school lock-in, but their party turns into a nightmare when the legendary Coast to Coast Killer traps them inside for a deadly game of survival.
poster The Million Pound Note
The Million Pound Note
(3.5/5)
90mn - Comedy, Romance
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that w…
poster Exposure
Exposure
(2.7/5)
71mn - Drama
A washed-up alcoholic reporter gets a second chance when he's hired to save a failing newspaper owned by a determined young woman who inherited her father's struggling business. As he uses sensationalisti…
poster The Oubliette
The Oubliette
29mn - Drama, History
Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly …
poster The Avenging Conscience
The Avenging Conscience
(3.2/5)
78mn - Drama, Horror
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of lif…
poster Mr. Toots' Tooth
Mr. Toots' Tooth
6mn - Comedy
A short silent film in which Mr. Toots miraculously loses his tooth. Mister Toots tries everything to cure his toothache. He eventually succeeds with a string and a book. Furious with the staff, he throws…
poster Woman to Woman
Woman to Woman
(3.6/5)
82mn - Drama, Romance
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married …
poster The Girl from Calgary
The Girl from Calgary
(2.7/5)
64mn - Comedy, Music
A plucky French-Canadian rodeo champion and nightclub singer catches the eye of an ambitious talent agent who transforms her into a Broadway sensation, but their budding romance faces threats when greedy …
poster The Rough House
The Rough House
22mn - Comedy
Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets the nuptial bedroom on fire, as the residence's cook tries to woo the maid who only has eyes for the char…
poster Blonde Comet
Blonde Comet
67mn - Drama, Romance
Beverly Blake, the fearless 'Blonde Comet,' tears up European racing circuits as one of the few women in the male-dominated world of professional auto racing. When she returns to compete in America, she m…
poster The Boat
The Boat
26mn - Comedy
A boat builder and his family attempt to set sail in his handmade boat, 'The Damfino'.
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