Germinal

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poster Germinal
Germinal
(3.5/5)
140mn - Drama
Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.
poster Homunculus
Homunculus
360mn - Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of scientists, led by a Professor Ortmann, produce a living human child using scientific processes - a "homunculus." This creature is human in every way, except that he cannot experience love.
poster Mixed Babies
Mixed Babies
8mn - Comedy
poster Thomas Graal's Best Child
Thomas Graal's Best Child
(3.2/5)
95mn - Comedy, Romance
Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marria…
poster Nerves
Nerves
(3.3/5)
110mn - Drama
The film tries to capture the "nervous epidemic" caused by war and misery which "drives people mad". This unique portrait of the life in 1919 Germany, filmed on location in Munich, describes the cases of …
poster I Want a Baby
I Want a Baby
11mn - Comedy
Max and his wife of three years are happy in most regards but one: they still don't have a child. When Max reads of a new method of "spontaneous generation" in the paper, it seems his fondest wish may hav…
poster An Over-Incubated Baby
An Over-Incubated Baby
1mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of …
poster The Microscopic Dancer
The Microscopic Dancer
2mn - Fantasy, Comedy
“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after …
poster Baby of the Bride
Baby of the Bride
(2.7/5)
105mn - Drama, Short, Comedy
Soon after returning from their honeymoon, John and Margaret Hix receive the surprise of their life - at 53, Margaret is pregnant! Against her husband's wishes, Margaret decides to keep the baby... but sh…
poster Défilé de voitures de bébés à la pouponnière de Paris
Défilé de voitures de bébés à la pouponnière de Paris
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the close left to the camera. A few toddlers also follow in …
poster Return to Reason
Return to Reason
3mn - Drama
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
poster Spring: Episode 1 - The Awakening of the Source / The Awakening of Nests
Spring: Episode 1 - The Awakening of the Source / The Awakening of Nests
(2.8/5)
7mn - Fantasy
Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.
poster Meyer from Berlin
Meyer from Berlin
(3/5)
58mn - Comedy
Sally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to take a holiday in the Austrian Alps in order to pursue women. Meyer dresses up in what he con…
poster Le goûter des bébés
Le goûter des bébés
1mn - Documentary
poster Ambrose's Sour Grapes
Ambrose's Sour Grapes
21mn -
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 Lena and the Geese
Lena and the Geese
20mn - Drama, Comedy, Family
A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same age. The two children grow up as sisters. Later, upon h…
poster Romance of a Jewess
Romance of a Jewess
12mn - Comedy
This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an i…
poster Gertie on Tour
Gertie on Tour
(3/5)
2mn - Comedy, Animation, Fantasy
Windsor McCay's partially lost follow-up to his tremendouly successful Gertie the Dinosaur. Gertie has been brought into the modern world. Continually perplexed by her new surroundings, she begins to expl…
poster Falling Leaves
Falling Leaves
12mn - Drama
It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a …
poster The Yesterday Machine
The Yesterday Machine
(5/5)
85mn - Sci-Fi, Horror
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
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