Contre toute attente

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows contre toute attente

poster Saut à la couverte

Saut à la couverte

1mn - Documentary

Jumping the Blanket.

poster For All Time

For All Time

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 Patience Has a Limit, We Don't

Patience Has a Limit, We Don't

96mn - Western, Comedy, Adventure

During the Civil War, a Union corporal steals military gold and hides it before his death, leading to a race between a lieutenant and the corporal's two half-wit sons to find the buried treasure.

poster Le goûter des bébés

Le goûter des bébés

1mn - Documentary

poster Felix Trifles with Time

Felix Trifles with Time

8mn - Sci-Fi, Animation, Comedy

Felix the Cat can't find anything to eat, so he bribes Father Time to send him back to when life was easier. However, the Stone Age turns out to have its own problems.

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 The Navigator

The Navigator

59mn - Comedy, Action, Romance

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their…

poster The Scientist

The Scientist

A desperate scientist breaks all ethical boundaries in his race to save his dying wife, but his dangerous experiments with human DNA could doom humanity.

Protéa

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 Talking to God

Talking to God

After twelve sleepless nights and feeling her life spiraling out of control, a desperate woman travels to Ukraine seeking a miraculous cure for her insomnia. There she finally finds rest and, through enco…

poster Locked In

Locked In

85mn - Thriller, Drama

Josh abandons his advertising career at its peak after a devastating car accident leaves his daughter in a mysterious coma with locked-in syndrome, and when everyone has given up hope, she begins communic…

poster Déchargement d’un navire

Déchargement d’un navire

1mn - Documentary

A shot of a ship that is being unloaded.

poster Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

poster Sherlock Jr.

Sherlock Jr.

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.

Utopia

Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific island.

poster Zero for Conduct

Zero for Conduct

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.

Concert

On the terrace of a villa, a violinist, two pianists and a singer are playing, until they are interrupted by a false note.

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 Terminus

Terminus

115mn - Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action

An established dystopian sport has drivers of a computerized truck driving cross-country to a terminus. The lead truck, created by a boy genius, is driven by a woman. When the computer guidance system fai…

poster The Shattering

The Shattering

76mn - Thriller

When a desperate boyfriend leads his cancer-stricken girlfriend and friends to meet a mysterious healer in the woods, they discover too late that they've been set up as bait for deadly creatures and param…

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