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poster The Lilliputian Minuet

The Lilliputian Minuet

1mn - Comedy, Fantasy

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.

poster Messalina

Messalina

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The…

poster Welcome to Paradise

Welcome to Paradise

95mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

Anne is feeling trapped by her life as housewife. She convinces Denise and Claire to take off for spring break at Paradise Beach, just like they did twenty years before. Claire, who works for Euro Tropic …

poster Petit frère et petite sœur

Petit frère et petite sœur

1mn - Documentary, Family

In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.

poster The Symbol of the Unconquered

The Symbol of the Unconquered

Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly …

poster Princess Tam Tam

Princess Tam Tam

77mn - Drama, Comedy

A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.

poster Max and Jane Want to Do Theater

Max and Jane Want to Do Theater

Max is a stage struck youth, and because of a deep-seated desire to go on the stage, refuses to consent to a marriage his father has planned for him. The girl, whom Max has never met, is also stage struck…

poster Carnival of Souls

Carnival of Souls

91mn - Horror, Mystery

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh …

Dixiana

100mn - Comedy, Music, Drama

A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for…

poster 1 Night in San Diego

1 Night in San Diego

Two life long friends, Hannah, a former reality starlet, and her conscious cuddling best friend, Brooklyn, road trip to San Diego to meet a high school crush and attend Comic Con. When things don't go as …

poster Onesime, Clockmaker

Onesime, Clockmaker

8mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.

poster Die Serpentintänzerin

Die Serpentintänzerin

1mn - Documentary

A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.

Ramona

17mn - Drama, Romance, Western

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to fi…

poster Pink Wall

Pink Wall

82mn - Drama, Romance

Six scenes. Six years. Six moments that shaped the relationship of Jenna and Leon. Pink Wall examines what defines us, the pressures of gender expectations, and our perpetual struggle between life and amb…

poster Science Moms

Science Moms

30mn - Documentary

This is a film that will give a voice to the science-minded moms - the women who are too often drowned out by the fear mongers, the shamers, and the CelebMoms. Through interviews with "science moms" who a…

poster Alice Chops the Suey

Alice Chops the Suey

7mn - Animation

Alice is kidnapped by Chinese Gangsters and brought to Chinatown. Her cat tries (successfully) to rescue her, but then they're hunted by a bunch of angry Chinese Triad members.

poster Whimsical Illusions

Whimsical Illusions

5mn - Comedy, Fantasy

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assis…

poster Touch the Sound

Touch the Sound

99mn - Documentary, Music

A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf.

poster Beauty in the Broken

Beauty in the Broken

91mn - Drama, Romance

The worlds of a depressed psychologist and an emotionally disturbed homeless woman collide. While trying to rescue her they fall in love, and each gets a second chance at a new life.

poster Side Streets

Side Streets

Five interconnected stories unfold across New York City's boroughs during the hottest day of summer, as a Romanian butcher gambles away his future, a fashion designer fights for her dreams in Manhattan, a…

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