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poster Mr. Robinson Crusoe

Mr. Robinson Crusoe

76mn - Adventure, Comedy

A wealthy yachtsman bets his friends he can survive alone on a deserted South Pacific island with nothing but a toothbrush, proving his ingenuity by building an elaborate jungle paradise complete with mod…

poster Never the Dames Shall Meet

Never the Dames Shall Meet

Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.

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 Games of Youth

Games of Youth

1mn - Documentary

Compilation of two shorts also distributed independently: Cricket und Reifenspiel [Croquet and the Arc and Hook Game], and Springschnur und Amazonen [Jump Roping and the Amazons]. In a sunny day, on a law…

poster Number, Please?

Number, Please?

While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. The…

poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino courtier en paratonnerres

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.

poster A Hundred Tricks

A Hundred Tricks

poster The Traveler

The Traveler

96mn - Horror, Thriller

On a dark Christmas Eve in a small town, the lone Sheriffs on the night shift encounter a mysterious man who goes by the name of Mr. Nobody. As the night progresses, the Sheriffs discover that this isn't …

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 Rentrée à l'étable

Rentrée à l'étable

1mn - Documentary

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

poster Song of the Scarlet Flower

Song of the Scarlet Flower

100mn - Drama, Romance

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

poster Fool's Paradise

Fool's Paradise

109mn - Romance

In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him explodes and blinds him, Arthur is duped into thinking Poll…

poster The Serenade

The Serenade

Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.

poster Playin' Hookey

Playin' Hookey

Wheezer gets excited watching his dog Pansy attack and rip apart the chickens and furniture in the back yard. His mother is upset, and his father takes his rifle to shoot the dog. Meanwhile, Joe Cobb has …

poster Cordeliers' Square in Lyon

Cordeliers' Square in Lyon

1mn - Documentary

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

poster Pollyanna

Pollyanna

58mn - Comedy, Drama, Family

When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna'…

Sexting

8mn - Drama, Comedy

Fed up with her relationship with a married man, a young woman decides to meet his wife for coffee.

poster Sick Cylinders

Sick Cylinders

6mn - Animation

Oswald wants to take his girl Kitty for a ride, but constant mishaps such as a pesky pooch and falling boulders prevent the time from being the least bit enjoyable. In the end, Oswald loses his girl to an…

poster The Good Luck of a 'Souse'

The Good Luck of a 'Souse'

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just thrown his family out a window. We see a couple of the…

poster The Stranger Came Home

The Stranger Came Home

Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return…

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