Paracelsus

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poster Maniac
Maniac
51mn - Horror
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
poster The Astronomer's Dream
The Astronomer's Dream
3mn - Fantasy
An astronomer has a terrifying dream.
poster Hercules
Hercules
(2.7/5)
104mn - Fantasy, Adventure
In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediatel…
poster The Imperceptible Transmutations
The Imperceptible Transmutations
2mn -
This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.
poster A Funny Shave
A Funny Shave
2mn - Comedy
A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.
poster A Message from Mars
A Message from Mars
(2.6/5)
69mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A Martian is sentenced to visit earth to cure a selfish man.
poster The Prophetess of Thebes
The Prophetess of Thebes
2mn - Fantasy
Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly refuses to forecast the coming events of his sovereign,…
poster The Vain Parlor Maid
The Vain Parlor Maid
(2.7/5)
4mn - Comedy
A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, th…
poster A Trip to Mars
A Trip to Mars
(3.2/5)
81mn - Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy
The navy captain Avanti Planetaros is inspired by his astronomer-father to travel through outer space to reach other worlds. He becomes an aviator and, along with the young scientist Dr. Krafft, the drivi…
poster The Sick Kitten
The Sick Kitten
1mn - Drama
A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is important for being one of the earliest films to cut to a close…
poster Calino, Love Tamer
Calino, Love Tamer
7mn - Comedy
One day, Calino has the bold and imprudent idea to follow a woman down the street. The woman leads him all the way to the traveling lion cage run by her husband. To avoid her husband's jealous anger, the …
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 The Phantom Athlete
The Phantom Athlete
89mn - Adventure
In a plot similar to, but predating, the later Superman stories, a young girl, Jenny, is involved in several dangerous adventures as a result of her possession of a valuable jewel. Each time she is saved …
poster The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
(3.2/5)
9mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an …
poster Cupid
Cupid
83mn - Horror
When a practicing witch is viciously humiliated by mean girls at school, she summons the dark spirit of Cupid for revenge, but this Valentine's Day nightmare brings forth not a cherub of love, but a winge…
poster A Good Little Devil
A Good Little Devil
49mn -
poster Parsifal
Parsifal
(2.8/5)
50mn - Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.
poster Christus
Christus
(3.1/5)
97mn - Drama
Antamoro's CHRISTUS, epic in scale and ambition, and featuring decidedly otherworldly special effects, was released in 1916. Telling the story of the Life of Christ, the film is divided into three segment…
poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Calino courtier en paratonnerres
5mn -
Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.
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