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poster Opium
Opium
(3.0/5)
93mn - Drama
In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special variety that produces fabulous sensations because of the …
poster Adventures of Gallant Bess
Adventures of Gallant Bess
(2.6/5)
71mn - Action, Drama, Romance
A devoted ranch hand who captures and trains a magnificent wild horse named Bess faces an impossible choice when a corrupt rodeo owner steals his beloved animal while he recovers from injury. Torn between…
poster Ateliers de La Ciotat
Ateliers de La Ciotat
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.
poster Carnival Lady
Carnival Lady
(2.9/5)
64mn - Drama
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
poster Blonde Ice
Blonde Ice
(3/5)
73mn - Crime, Drama, Romance
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
poster The Big Trees
The Big Trees
(2.9/5)
89mn - Romance, Western
In 1900 California, ruthless timber baron Jim Fallon schemes to exploit a new land law and make millions by clear-cutting the state's majestic redwood forests. When he encounters a peaceful Quaker colony …
poster For Their Own Good
For Their Own Good
(3.1/5)
118mn - Drama, Short
When a factory worker faces an impossible ultimatum—submit to sterilization or lose her job—she rallies her fellow workers to fight back against their employer's shocking demands, challenging a system tha…
poster Leprechauns Gold
Leprechauns Gold
(3.5/5)
10mn - Animation
A song-filled Noveltoon featuring the antics of the Irish Leprechauns during their annual gold-washing ceremony. It depicts the wee people of Ireland who flavor its traditions with laughs and legend.
poster The Christmas Dream
The Christmas Dream
4mn - Fantasy
The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by their governess, are about to retire. Before lying dow…
poster The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
(3/5)
94mn - Comedy, Drama
In this dazzling Pre-Code romantic caper, the mysterious and elegant Fay Cheyney infiltrates London's glittering high society as a wealthy widow, charming the aristocracy while secretly plotting to steal …
poster Princess Tam Tam
Princess Tam Tam
(3.2/5)
77mn - Drama, Comedy
A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.
poster A Submarine Pirate
A Submarine Pirate
40mn - Comedy
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
poster Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water fro…
poster Départ de cyclistes
Départ de cyclistes
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.
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 Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
1mn - Documentary
The first travelling shot.
poster The Bewitched Trunk
The Bewitched Trunk
3mn - Fantasy
A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other people.
poster The Vanishing Lady
The Vanishing Lady
(3.2/5)
1mn - Mystery
Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.
poster Dangerous Charter
Dangerous Charter
76mn - Drama, Thriller
When struggling fishermen discover an abandoned luxury yacht with a corpse aboard, they think their salvage claim will solve their financial woes. But their dream windfall becomes a deadly nightmare as th…
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