Face à face

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows face à face

poster Let's Get Tough

Let's Get Tough

Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short swor…

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 Writing Backwards

Writing Backwards

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

poster A Hand Shake

A Hand Shake

William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.

poster An Impossible Balancing Feat

An Impossible Balancing Feat

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

poster The Battle of the Century

The Battle of the Century

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

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 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 Fate of Graduates

Fate of Graduates

The film tells the tragic story of two recent college graduates, Tao Jianping ("Tao" is a homophone for peach), and Li Lilian ("Li" is a homophone for plum). Married, the two hope to change society for th…

poster Back Stage

Back Stage

Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.

poster Petit frère et petite sœur

Petit frère et petite sœur

1mn - Documentary, Family

In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.

poster Rentrée à l'étable

Rentrée à l'étable

1mn - Documentary

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

poster College Chums

College Chums

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an explanation, he tells her that it was his sister. She is not sa…

poster The Marriage Circle

The Marriage Circle

An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.

poster Boules Game

Boules Game

1mn - Documentary

poster Made for Each Other

Made for Each Other

92mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

poster The Four Troublesome Heads

The Four Troublesome Heads

1mn - Comedy, Fantasy

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposi…

poster Constantine and the Cross

Constantine and the Cross

128mn - Adventure, Drama, History

Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.

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 Tit for Tat

Tit for Tat

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by …

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