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poster Ambrose's Sour Grapes

Ambrose's Sour Grapes

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 Nightmare Castle

Nightmare Castle

A sadistic count brutally tortures and murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, removing their hearts as the ultimate act of vengeance. Years later, when he remarries her mentally fragile sister for her…

poster Pierrot the Prodigal

Pierrot the Prodigal

A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pier…

poster The Child of Paris

The Child of Paris

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 Faust and Marguerite

Faust and Marguerite

1mn - Fantasy, Horror

Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite. Faust refuses, whereupon Meph…

poster Hypocrites

Hypocrites

The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.

Charade

113mn - Comedy, Mystery, Romance

When a woman's husband is murdered, she finds herself pursued through Paris by dangerous men seeking the fortune he stole, relying on a charming stranger whose true identity becomes increasingly mysteriou…

poster J'accuse

J'accuse

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 Carnival of Souls

Carnival of Souls

91mn - Horror, Mystery

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh …

poster That Uncertain Feeling

That Uncertain Feeling

84mn - Comedy, Romance

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

poster The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

107mn - Drama, Thriller, Mystery

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

poster The Phantom Carriage

The Phantom Carriage

93mn - Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot…

poster Monsieur Beaucaire

Monsieur Beaucaire

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 From Morn to Midnight

From Morn to Midnight

72mn - Crime, Comedy

A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60,000 Marks and leaves for the capital city, where he attempts to find satisf…

poster Yesterday's Children

Yesterday's Children

A mother haunted by vivid dreams of another life travels to Ireland to uncover the truth about her past incarnation as an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s, leading to an emotional reunion with the childre…

poster Rentrée à l'étable

Rentrée à l'étable

1mn - Documentary

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

poster Escape To Black Tree Forest

Escape To Black Tree Forest

Two weeks after her hospitalization, Mare Strode returns home with deadly intentions, brutally murdering her mother before escaping back to the cursed Black Tree Forest. Donning the original killer's outf…

poster The Servant Girl's Legacy

The Servant Girl's Legacy

A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another tel…

Ashes

39mn - Drama, Fantasy

Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to…

poster The Prophetess of Thebes

The Prophetess of Thebes

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly refuses to forecast the coming events of his sovereign,…

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