Automaty

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poster The Scheming Gambler's Paradise

The Scheming Gambler's Paradise

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a mercantile establishment when the cops stage a raid.

poster The Mechanical Man

The Mechanical Man

80mn - Comedy, Sci-Fi

The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine. The mechanical man possess super-human speed and strength. The scientist is killed however…

poster The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm

119mn - Crime, Drama, Romance

Frankie Machine, a recovering heroin addict and talented card dealer, returns to Chicago's gritty underworld after serving time in federal prison. Armed only with his newfound drumming skills and a desper…

poster A Natural Born Gambler

A Natural Born Gambler

A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.

poster The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades

15mn - Horror, Drama

Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying …

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 Two-Gun Gussie

Two-Gun Gussie

10mn - Comedy, Western

A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the loca…

poster Any Gun Can Play

Any Gun Can Play

103mn - Adventure, Action, Western

A gang robs a gold shipment from a train. A so called bounty hunter is sent to track down the robbers and decides to let them lead him to the gold.

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 Men O' War

Men O' War

Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a bo…

poster The Pawnshop

The Pawnshop

A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives a…

poster Baby Doll

Baby Doll

Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby …

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 Game of Cards

Game of Cards

1mn - Comedy, History

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

poster The Music Box

The Music Box

83mn - Thriller

An orphaned six-year-old girl becomes dangerously entranced by a mysterious antique music box that plays longer each time it's wound, forcing her desperate aunt to race against time and an evil spirit to …

Evolver

90mn - Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A teenage gaming prodigy wins a cutting-edge robotic opponent in a laser tag contest, but soon discovers his prize is actually a military prototype designed to kill. As the robot learns from each encounte…

poster The Doll

The Doll

48mn - Comedy, Romance, Fantasy

The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually th…

poster Dog Factory

Dog Factory

A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into dogs.

poster The Double Incarnation of William Sheep

The Double Incarnation of William Sheep

15mn - Drama, Horror, Fantasy

A young gambler plays a game of chess against his creditor in order to clear his debts. Whilst playing he falls into a dream where he encounters a mysterious man who has the power to take his identity. Th…

poster The Prince of Magicians

The Prince of Magicians

2mn - Fantasy, Comedy

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

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