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poster Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
12mn - Adventure
Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by hand to colour it. Originally a 15 minute film, twelve a…
poster Snowball Fight
Snowball Fight
1mn - Documentary, Comedy
Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along the road becomes the target of opportunity. He falls off…
poster Départ de cyclistes
Départ de cyclistes
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.
poster Fanchon, the Cricket
Fanchon, the Cricket
(3.2/5)
75mn - Drama
A young wild girl, Fanchon, lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the villagers of being a witch. The unkempt Fanchon suffers from her grandmother's sorceress reputation. On…
poster Colt in the Hand of the Devil
Colt in the Hand of the Devil
(3.1/5)
93mn - Western
Pat Scotty infiltrates a gang of Mexican bandits led by El Condor, earning their trust to trap them all, but develops genuine friendship and respect with the bandit leader.
poster Conjuring
Conjuring
1mn -
The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring is notable as Méliès's second film, and as his first to move beyond the actuality …
poster Demolition of a Wall
Demolition of a Wall
1mn - Documentary
Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wa…
poster Caesar The Conqueror
Caesar The Conqueror
104mn - History, Adventure
In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause, inclu…
poster The St. Francisville Experiment
The St. Francisville Experiment
79mn - Horror, Thriller
Four non-actors, with no script, lock themselves in a haunted Louisiana plantation home overnight to film what takes places. The Lalaurie plantation, site of grisly murders, comes alive before their camer…
poster Lyon: Quai de l'Archevêché
Lyon: Quai de l'Archevêché
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.
poster Wonderful Mirrors
Wonderful Mirrors
7mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes to life and comes out of the frame and imitates his eve…
poster The Defect
The Defect
41mn -
LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the head of the institution, but when an old habitué of the d…
poster Writing Backwards
Writing Backwards
(2.9/5)
1mn -
Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.
poster Alcofribas, The Master Magician
Alcofribas, The Master Magician
4mn -
Two men in a cave perform magic.
poster Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
poster St. Urbain's Horseman
St. Urbain's Horseman
(3.3/5)
180mn - Drama
Based on the novel by Mordechai Richler - Winner of the 1971 Governor General's Award - this is the story of Jake, a film director of modest success and a man in disgrace. His alter ego, his cousin Joey -…
poster The Assassination of the Duke de Guise
The Assassination of the Duke de Guise
(2.8/5)
18mn - History, Drama
The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.
poster Hannibal
Hannibal
(2.6/5)
88mn - History, Adventure, Drama
A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
poster The Cocoanuts
The Cocoanuts
(3.4/5)
96mn - Comedy
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
poster A Hand Shake
A Hand Shake
1mn -
William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.
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