Huit et demi

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poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.

poster Le Voleur invisible

Le Voleur invisible

7mn - Crime, Fantasy

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test…

poster Chained for Life

Chained for Life

A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?

poster Game of Cards

Game of Cards

1mn - Comedy, History

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

poster The Disappearance of Onésime

The Disappearance of Onésime

When Onésime gets declared dead by drowning, the supposed-widow consults a private detective specialized in missing persons.

poster The Magic Dice

The Magic Dice

1mn - Comedy, Fantasy

Another magic short of Méliès.

poster Beau Ideal

Beau Ideal

82mn - War, Adventure, Romance

An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

poster The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

9mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an …

poster Four Around the Woman

Four Around the Woman

Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.

poster Extraordinary Illusions

Extraordinary Illusions

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

poster A Bill of Divorcement

A Bill of Divorcement

A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.

poster The Oubliette

The Oubliette

29mn - Drama, History

Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly …

poster Calino, Station Master

Calino, Station Master

Calino is left in charge of a railway station.

poster Vendémiaire

Vendémiaire

If you’re already familiar with Louis Feuillade, his little-known opus Vendémiaire may come as a surprise. Unlike the bulk of his work which was characterised as ‘Fantastic Realism’, Vendémiaire is wonder…

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 Astronomer's Dream

The Astronomer's Dream

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

poster A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm

A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm

An office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning.

poster An Impossible Balancing Feat

An Impossible Balancing Feat

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

poster Twilight People

Twilight People

A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.

poster The Dinner

The Dinner

120mn - Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation re…

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