A contr sens

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows a contr sens

poster Rentrée à l'étable
Rentrée à l'étable
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.
poster The Ex-Convict
The Ex-Convict
(2.9/5)
9mn - Drama
A recently-released convict attempts to do right but struggles to support his wife and ailing daughter.
poster Entr'acte
Entr'acte
(3.7/5)
22mn - Comedy, Fantasy
Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp …
poster J'accuse
J'accuse
(3.9/5)
140mn - War, Drama, History
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
poster Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth
(3.7/5)
94mn - History, Drama
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is sh…
poster Zero for Conduct
Zero for Conduct
(1/5)
41mn - Comedy, Drama
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
poster A Pair of Tights
A Pair of Tights
(3.8/5)
20mn - Comedy
Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, cops and a brat make it nearly impossible to get …
poster Borderline
Borderline
(3.1/5)
88mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many botched attempts to get at the crook, they resort to h…
poster Le Voleur invisible
Le Voleur invisible
7mn - Crime, Fantasy
A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test…
poster Not Wanted
Not Wanted
(5/5)
91mn - Drama
After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
poster Calino, Love Tamer
Calino, Love Tamer
7mn - Comedy
One day, Calino has the bold and imprudent idea to follow a woman down the street. The woman leads him all the way to the traveling lion cage run by her husband. To avoid her husband's jealous anger, the …
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 Notorious
Notorious
(4.0/5)
102mn - Thriller, Drama, Romance
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one anoth…
poster Ambrose's Sour Grapes
Ambrose's Sour Grapes
21mn -
Ambrose loses his girl-friend to Harry Gribbon in the park. When Ambrose's "girl-friend"'s twin sister and husband arrive everybody gets mixed-up between the two twins.
poster Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
(3.5/5)
52mn - Documentary
Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. It looks at the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency,…
poster Never Weaken
Never Weaken
29mn - Comedy
Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a repu…
poster Sentence of God
Sentence of God
(2.7/5)
88mn - Western
Two ruthless gunmen with opposing motivations—a cold-blooded bounty hunter pursuing the reward and a vengeful outlaw seeking justice for his father's murder—reluctantly join forces to track down the notor…
poster On the Roof
On the Roof
1mn - Crime, Comedy
Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.
poster The Woman in the Window
The Woman in the Window
(3.8/5)
107mn - Drama, Thriller, Mystery
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
poster The Good Luck of a 'Souse'
The Good Luck of a 'Souse'
3mn - Drama
This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just thrown his family out a window. We see a couple of the…
Related terms
See also