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poster Stella Maris

Stella Maris

Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. Unity…

poster The Life of the Jews of Palestine

The Life of the Jews of Palestine

78mn - Documentary

The Life of the Jews in Palestine is a silent documentary film depicting Jews and Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine.

poster Napoleon

Napoleon

Nonemn - History, Drama, War

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estate…

Loyalty

Kaatje, the daughter of the miller Schoonejans, and Jef, a little shepherd, who live near Delft, are happy together. In a floral parade, the carriage the two children have decorated with tulips wins the f…

poster Entr'acte

Entr'acte

22mn - Comedy, Fantasy

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp …

poster The Lady of the Camellias

The Lady of the Camellias

66mn - Drama, Romance

La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provincial bourgeois Armand Duval. Armand’s father disapproves of the relationship and convinces Marguerite to…

poster Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!

Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!

Poor Eugénie! She's humpbacked and everyone wants to straighten her out, but when success finally comes, she's too tall not to cause disasters. To solve the problem, the help of a sword swallower is urgen…

poster The Fat Spy

The Fat Spy

When a boatload of teenage treasure hunters descends upon a mysterious Florida island rumored to contain the fountain of youth, they unwittingly trigger a chaotic competition with eccentric adults who hav…

Faust

18mn - Drama, Fantasy

Dr Faust is continually obsessed with his quest for knowledge and absolute pleasure. One day, the demon Mephistopheles appears to him in his study in human guise and offers him a deal: a lifetime of total…

Ashes

39mn - Drama, Fantasy

Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to…

poster Caminandes: Gran Dillama

Caminandes: Gran Dillama

3mn - Animation, Comedy, Family

A young llama named Koro discovers that the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence).

poster The Mothering Heart

The Mothering Heart

A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a beauti…

poster Life After Pi

Life After Pi

30mn - Documentary

“Life After Pi” is a short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios, the L.A. based Visual Effects company that won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking work on “Life of Pi”– just two weeks after de…

poster Take Care of My Little Girl

Take Care of My Little Girl

A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.

poster Hector's Hectic Life

Hector's Hectic Life

6mn - Animation, Comedy

Hector is a dog with an easy life and the run of the house when the lady of the house gives him a warning...one more mess and you're out. Hector would be okay if not for the fact that three little puppies…

poster It's a Greek Life

It's a Greek Life

7mn - Animation

Mercury, the winged messenger, drops his sandals off with a centaur to be repaired. The centaur, who has coveted wings to the extent that he's used a couple ducks to help him fly, takes the sandals for a …

poster La Belle Nivernaise

La Belle Nivernaise

A young man falls in love with the daughter of the man who adopted him.

poster The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary

108mn - Horror, Comedy, Mystery

Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his bro…

poster Day Dreams

Day Dreams

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler one…

poster Letter of Introduction

Letter of Introduction

104mn - Comedy, Drama

An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establis…

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