Failure is the mother of success

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows failure is the mother of success

poster Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!
Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!
4mn - Comedy
Poor Eugénie! She's humpbacked and everyone wants to straighten her out, but when success finally comes, she's too tall not to cause disasters. To solve the problem, the help of a sword swallower is urgen…
poster Pest Pupil
Pest Pupil
(2.7/5)
6mn - Animation
1957 Baby Huey is a big duck enrolled in kindergarten. Despite being big and clumsy, he attempts to fit in, causing havoc and getting expelled by the teacher. His mother then hires a private tutor, who is…
poster Carnival Lady
Carnival Lady
(2.9/5)
64mn - Drama
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
poster A Great Love
A Great Love
13mn - Drama, Romance
Kenneth Reynolds tells Nelly’s daughter the story of his love for Nelly. Kenneth was in love with Nelly, but the arrival of a stranger drove Nelly and Kenneth apart. Nelly and her lover absconded, and Nel…
poster Wonderful Mirrors
Wonderful Mirrors
7mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes to life and comes out of the frame and imitates his eve…
poster The Delicious Little Devil
The Delicious Little Devil
(3.1/5)
77mn - Comedy, Drama
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the famil…
poster Mother of the Bride
Mother of the Bride
(3.1/5)
94mn - Drama, Short, Comedy
A mother's plans for her daughter's wedding are complicated when her ex-husband, who abandoned the family more than 20 years earlier, shows up.
poster A Victim of Misfortune
A Victim of Misfortune
4mn - Comedy
Painter pursued by policeman, laundress, milkman, etc.
poster It's a Greek Life
It's a Greek Life
(2.6/5)
7mn - Animation
Mercury, the winged messenger, drops his sandals off with a centaur to be repaired. The centaur, who has coveted wings to the extent that he's used a couple ducks to help him fly, takes the sandals for a …
poster Stolen from the Heart
Stolen from the Heart
(2.6/5)
90mn - Drama, Short
A former prostitute kidnaps a baby boy at birth to satisfy her drug-dealing husband, who has told her that he is going to divorce her and put her out on the streets if she cannot produce him a son. Obviou…
poster The Inexperienced Chauffeur
The Inexperienced Chauffeur
(3.0/5)
3mn - Comedy
The proud owner of a new car in 1907 gets behind the wheel for the first time and weaves down the street, hitting everything from lamp-posts to market stalls and baby carriages. An ever-increasing crowd o…
poster Betrayed by a Handprint
Betrayed by a Handprint
8mn - Crime
Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé. During the evening bridge participated in by a number …
poster Teacher's Pest
Teacher's Pest
(3.1/5)
7mn - Animation
This Noveltoon (Paramount production number P9-5) finds young-and-little Junior Owl on his way to school, and trying hard to live up to the reputation of his elders for being wise. But, despite his best e…
poster The Indian Sorcerer
The Indian Sorcerer
5mn - Fantasy
A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering children.
poster The Trap
The Trap
(3/5)
60mn - Drama
A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
poster Heckle
Heckle
(3/5)
98mn - Drama, Comedy
A supermarket cashier with dreams beyond checkout lines discovers her calling when a washed-up comedian challenges her to face her fears on stage, launching a journey of self-discovery where bombing on st…
poster His First Job
His First Job
5mn - Comedy
Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.
poster Falling Leaves
Falling Leaves
12mn - Drama
It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a …
poster Space MOMs
Space MOMs
(4.2/5)
105mn - Drama
Based on an inspiring true story, brilliant working mothers who happen to be rocket scientists help India achieve the impossible in their historic Mars Orbiter Mission, proving that with determination and…
poster A Clever Dummy
A Clever Dummy
19mn - Comedy
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
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