Lettre d'une inconnu

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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…

poster How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns

How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns

11mn - Action, Comedy, Romance

A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper...

poster Writing Backwards

Writing Backwards

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

poster Strangers When We Meet

Strangers When We Meet

117mn - Romance

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

poster If We Only Knew

If We Only Knew

A careless nurse girl allowing the child to wander away, made the mother realize the poignancy of the little verse: "If we knew the baby's fingers / Pressed against the window pane / Would be cold and sti…

poster The Servant Girl's Legacy

The Servant Girl's Legacy

A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another tel…

poster The Drawing Lesson

The Drawing Lesson

In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding the fountain to his liking he goes after his scholars.…

Charade

113mn - Comedy, Mystery, Romance

When a woman's husband is murdered, she finds herself pursued through Paris by dangerous men seeking the fortune he stole, relying on a charming stranger whose true identity becomes increasingly mysteriou…

poster La Belle Nivernaise

La Belle Nivernaise

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

poster Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

87mn - Family, Drama

The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…

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 Golden Louis

The Golden Louis

An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune, but he can't find her again to repay her.

poster The Defect

The Defect

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 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 The Lady Says No

The Lady Says No

80mn - Comedy, Romance

A bestselling feminist author who warns women about the dangers of men finds her convictions challenged when a charming magazine photographer arrives to do a feature story on her. As their verbal sparring…

poster A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

78mn - Drama, Romance

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is …

poster The Impossible Voyage

The Impossible Voyage

20mn - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

poster The Marriage Circle

The Marriage Circle

An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.

poster Talking to God

Talking to God

After twelve sleepless nights and feeling her life spiraling out of control, a desperate woman travels to Ukraine seeking a miraculous cure for her insomnia. There she finally finds rest and, through enco…

poster The Woman from Nowhere

The Woman from Nowhere

A fifty year old woman, scarred by a life of disillusionment and regret, returns to the place where she lived twenty years before, to rekindle happier memories. She meets a young woman, the daughter of t…

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