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poster Protéa
Protéa
(3.1/5)
50mn - Action, Crime, Mystery
Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Jose…
poster Robert Macaire and Bertrand
Robert Macaire and Bertrand
11mn - Comedy, Crime
Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.
poster Tit-for-Tat
Tit-for-Tat
(3.1/5)
5mn - Fantasy
An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.
poster The Balloonatic
The Balloonatic
27mn - Comedy, Romance
Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon, which lands Buster in the wilderness, later proves useful as their canoe is about…
poster Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil
Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil
(2.7/5)
5mn -
The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then picks up as the painter goes haywire and sends the assi…
poster Léonce Loves Morels
Léonce Loves Morels
(2.8/5)
14mn -
A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.
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 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 An Impossible Balancing Feat
An Impossible Balancing Feat
1mn - Comedy
A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.
poster Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
(3.7/5)
113mn - Adventure, Drama, History
A brilliant swordsman-poet with an enormous nose secretly loves the beautiful Roxane but believes himself too ugly to be loved, so he helps his handsome but tongue-tied friend Christian win her heart by w…
poster Miniature Theatre
Miniature Theatre
(2.9/5)
5mn - Comedy, Animation
Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and be…
poster Bluebeard
Bluebeard
(3.2/5)
80mn - Fantasy, Drama, Thriller
Anne reads her younger sister, Marie-Catherine, the story of Bluebeard. In 17th-century France, another set of sisters — also named Anne and Marie-Catherine — are left impoverished by their father's death…
poster Chaise en bascule
Chaise en bascule
1mn - Comedy
Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.
poster Mademoiselle de La Seiglière
Mademoiselle de La Seiglière
87mn - Family, Drama
The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…
poster The Smiling Madame Beudet
The Smiling Madame Beudet
(4/5)
54mn - Drama
An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
poster The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror
(2.8/5)
102mn - History, Drama
The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his und…
poster La Parisienne
La Parisienne
(3.2/5)
86mn - Comedy
The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
poster Monsieur Beaucaire
Monsieur Beaucaire
(3/5)
106mn - Drama, Romance
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two ma…
poster The Child of Paris
The Child of Paris
(3.6/5)
124mn - Drama
The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of hi…
poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Calino courtier en paratonnerres
5mn -
Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.
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