Mes parrains sont magiques

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows mes parrains sont magiques

poster Robert Macaire and Bertrand
Robert Macaire and Bertrand
11mn - Comedy, Crime
Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.
poster Défilé de voitures de bébés à la pouponnière de Paris
Défilé de voitures de bébés à la pouponnière de Paris
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the close left to the camera. A few toddlers also follow in …
poster The Magic Lantern
The Magic Lantern
5mn - Fantasy
Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girl…
poster The Four Troublesome Heads
The Four Troublesome Heads
(3.8/5)
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposi…
poster Daddy-Long-Legs
Daddy-Long-Legs
(3.3/5)
85mn - Drama, Comedy
Wealthy Jarvis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, tho…
poster The Magician and the Imp
The Magician and the Imp
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth is suddenly transformed into a beautiful girl, clad i…
poster Tit for Tat
Tit for Tat
1mn - Comedy
Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by …
poster The King and the Jester
The King and the Jester
5mn - Comedy
French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).
poster The Wee Men
The Wee Men
(3.3/5)
9mn - Comedy, Animation
A yarn about the mythical Leprechauns who reside in Ireland and their crock of gold. The legend says that if anyone succeeds in capturing one of the wee men, the little person must then lead them to where…
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 Kiri-Kis
Kiri-Kis
3mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.
poster The Famous Box Trick
The Famous Box Trick
(3.1/5)
1mn - Fantasy
A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.
poster Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp
Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp
12mn - Fantasy
The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for himself. Aladdin must…
poster The Enchanted Sedan Chair
The Enchanted Sedan Chair
3mn - Fantasy
A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate palanquin is summoned. Now, what does the illusionist …
poster The Microscopic Dancer
The Microscopic Dancer
2mn - Fantasy, Comedy
“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after …
poster Father's Little Dividend
Father's Little Dividend
(3.3/5)
82mn - Romance, Comedy
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
poster Felix Trifles with Time
Felix Trifles with Time
(3.4/5)
8mn - Sci-Fi, Animation, Comedy
Felix the Cat can't find anything to eat, so he bribes Father Time to send him back to when life was easier. However, the Stone Age turns out to have its own problems.
poster Comical Conjuring
Comical Conjuring
2mn - Comedy
In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an armchair, s…
poster Chicot the Jester
Chicot the Jester
(2.8/5)
59mn -
The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Coun…
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 …
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