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poster French Cops Learning English
French Cops Learning English
7mn - Comedy
The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.
poster Love Lessons
Love Lessons
(3.0/5)
97mn - Drama, Short
An older couple are about to retire, when they find out that they're about to be parents all over again.
poster Making an American Citizen
Making an American Citizen
(2.7/5)
11mn - Drama
A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
poster Alice Gets in Dutch
Alice Gets in Dutch
10mn - Animation
Alice misbehaves in school and is forced to sit in the corner. She falls asleep and dreams, but schoolwork intrudes even into her dreams. Alice dreams of dancing dogs and donkeys until her fun is interrup…
poster The Making of an American
The Making of an American
14mn -
Docudrama encouraging immigrants to master English and become successful, assimilated Americans.
poster The Young Lady and the Hooligan
The Young Lady and the Hooligan
(3.2/5)
44mn - Drama, Romance
A young woman arrives in her school where she must teach for the first time. Her task consists in teaching a class of adults to read and write. All her students are male, ranging from boys to old men, and…
poster Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
(3.3/5)
74mn - Drama
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thi…
poster Exposé
Exposé
(2.7/5)
Nonemn - Drama, Thriller, Horror
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
poster East Is East
East Is East
(3.1/5)
80mn - Drama, Romance
Victoria Vickers, a little East End Cockney girl, is left a vast fortune by an uncle in America. She is finally discovered hop-picking in Kent by her solicitor, who has given up the search and gone off on…
poster Her First Biscuits
Her First Biscuits
6mn - Comedy
A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he r…
poster The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
(3.3/5)
60mn - Drama
Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confi…
poster The Little Match Seller
The Little Match Seller
3mn - Drama
A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She lights matches for some light and warmth. There are vis…
poster Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
2mn - Drama
A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.
poster The Magic Book
The Magic Book
(3.1/5)
3mn - Fantasy
Characters from a large magic book come to life.
poster A Hundred Tricks
A Hundred Tricks
(2.8/5)
3mn - Comedy
poster Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
14mn - Drama
Adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.
poster Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin
(2.6/5)
19mn - Drama
Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. After getting som…
poster The Little House in Kolomna
The Little House in Kolomna
(3.1/5)
31mn - Comedy
Based on the story by Pushkin. Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she also enjoys flirting with the guards's officers who pa…
poster A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
(3/5)
11mn - Fantasy, Drama
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that await…
poster Among Those Present
Among Those Present
35mn - Comedy
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
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