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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 Crainquebille

Crainquebille

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…

poster Boules Game

Boules Game

1mn - Documentary

poster Le cigare introuvable

Le cigare introuvable

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

poster Felix All Puzzled

Felix All Puzzled

4mn - Animation

Felix is hungry, but his owner won't feed him until he's finished his crossword puzzle! Only one word left -- a 7-letter "chiefly found in Russia." Felix goes all the way to Russia to find the answer, but…

poster Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer

Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …

poster Tit-for-Tat

Tit-for-Tat

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

poster Snowball Fight

Snowball Fight

1mn - Documentary, Comedy

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along the road becomes the target of opportunity. He falls off…

poster Saut à la couverte

Saut à la couverte

1mn - Documentary

Jumping the Blanket.

poster An Impossible Balancing Feat

An Impossible Balancing Feat

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

poster Unusual Cooking

Unusual Cooking

3mn - Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human beings, and dance a wild saraband around the place. After …

poster The Burning Crucible

The Burning Crucible

97mn - Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on t…

poster The Voyage of M. Bourrichon

The Voyage of M. Bourrichon

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino courtier en paratonnerres

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.

poster The Marvellous Wreath

The Marvellous Wreath

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

poster Writing Backwards

Writing Backwards

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

poster Chaise en bascule

Chaise en bascule

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

poster Pantry Panic

Pantry Panic

7mn - Animation

Woody's friends warn him that the groundhog has predicted a blizzard. Unconcerned, Woody decides not to go South with his pals. Soon enough, the blizzard sweeps in and destroys the loony woodpecker's stas…

poster Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

13mn - Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

poster The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship

The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship

3mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy, Fantasy

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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