The imitation of life

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows the imitation of life

poster The Mysterious Portrait

The Mysterious Portrait

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

poster Going Ga-Ga

Going Ga-Ga

Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat…

poster Anything Once!

Anything Once!

ANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and dreaming of a better life. We're told that she's taken a lot of bumps in life and doesn't know where the next bump …

poster Bliss

Bliss

A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."

poster Lonely Wives

Lonely Wives

A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.

poster A Spiritualist Photographer

A Spiritualist Photographer

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

poster A Life at Stake

A Life at Stake

A struggling architect desperate to rebuild his failed business accepts a lucrative proposition from a seductive married woman, but when he realizes she's manipulating him into a deadly insurance scam whe…

poster The Vain Parlor Maid

The Vain Parlor Maid

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 Taxi Dolls

Taxi Dolls

"Taxi Dolls" is about robots that are incredibly lifelike. One wanders off to a taxi and the inventor retrieves it. Due to a mix-up a real woman is mistaken for one of these weird automatons and hilarity …

poster A Clever Dummy

A Clever Dummy

An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.

poster Perfect People

Perfect People

100mn - Short, Comedy, Drama

After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In order to become more attractive they submit themselves not only under modern diets and physical education bu…

poster Woman to Woman

Woman to Woman

82mn - Drama, Romance

David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married …

poster Money Mad

Money Mad

9mn - Crime, Drama

The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple…

poster Rips and Rushes

Rips and Rushes

While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Au…

poster The King of Paris

The King of Paris

The lives of two young men-- A virtuous artist who's renounced a background of riches and a debonair swindler proclaimed by many the King of Paris-- intersect when the artist's mother becomes the target o…

poster All on Account of the Milk

All on Account of the Milk

The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is the maid although she is the daughter of the manor. The hero continues to represent himself as a laborer in o…

poster Through the Breakers

Through the Breakers

A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of his ways and stays home with her, demanding his wife do…

poster Life After Pi

Life After Pi

30mn - Documentary

“Life After Pi” is a short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios, the L.A. based Visual Effects company that won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking work on “Life of Pi”– just two weeks after de…

poster Execution

Execution

A relentless bounty hunter finally tracks down the outlaw who cheated him out of stolen gold, only to discover he's captured the wrong man—the thief's honest brother who works in a traveling circus, setti…

poster The Charmer

The Charmer

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.

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