Compte a rebours

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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 Freaky Friday
Freaky Friday
(3.2/5)
97mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A small-town accountant discovers he's been fatally poisoned with no antidote and only days to live, launching a desperate race against time to track down his killer and uncover the reason for his murder …
poster Le goûter des bébés
Le goûter des bébés
1mn - Documentary
poster Time Out for Rhythm
Time Out for Rhythm
(3.2/5)
75mn - Comedy, Music
A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.
poster Writing Backwards
Writing Backwards
(2.9/5)
1mn -
Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.
poster For All Time
For All Time
(3.5/5)
84mn - Short, Sci-Fi, Drama
A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.
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 Crainquebille
Crainquebille
(3.6/5)
90mn - Drama
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 Saut à la couverte
Saut à la couverte
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
Jumping the Blanket.
poster Seven Chances
Seven Chances
(3.9/5)
56mn - Comedy, Romance
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
poster Sherlock Jr.
Sherlock Jr.
(4.1/5)
49mn - Action, Comedy, Mystery
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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 Time Chasers
Time Chasers
89mn - Romance, Sci-Fi, Drama
A physics teacher turns his small airplane into a time machine to help humanity, but when he sells the technology to a greedy corporation, he must race through time to prevent them from creating a dystopi…
poster The Count
The Count
24mn - Comedy
A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the count cannot attend a dance party, so he dresses as su…
poster Onésime a un duel à l'américaine
Onésime a un duel à l'américaine
5mn -
Onésime short
poster The Vanishing Lady
The Vanishing Lady
(3.2/5)
1mn - Mystery
Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.
poster Boules Game
Boules Game
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
poster Borrowed Wives
Borrowed Wives
(2.7/5)
62mn - Comedy
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
poster Between Calais and Dover
Between Calais and Dover
(2.7/5)
1mn - Comedy
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
poster Rogues' Tricks
Rogues' Tricks
4mn - Comedy, Action
Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a trick film or something that he's known for, the directo…
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