Jacques denis

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poster A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
30mn - Drama, History
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
poster Tit for Tat
Tit for Tat
1mn - Comedy
Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by …
poster The Voyage of M. Bourrichon
The Voyage of M. Bourrichon
15mn -
An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.
poster The Microscopic Dancer
The Microscopic Dancer
2mn - Fantasy, Comedy
“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after …
poster A Woman
A Woman
24mn - Comedy
Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the ben…
poster Miniature Theatre
Miniature Theatre
(2.9/5)
5mn - Comedy, Animation
Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and be…
poster Petit frère et petite sœur
Petit frère et petite sœur
(3/5)
1mn - Documentary, Family
In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.
poster Boules Game
Boules Game
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Calino courtier en paratonnerres
5mn -
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 Madame DuBarry
Madame DuBarry
(3.3/5)
114mn - Drama, History
The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
poster The Play House
The Play House
18mn - Comedy, Fantasy
After waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.
poster Buncoed Stage Johnnie
Buncoed Stage Johnnie
2mn - Comedy
This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…
poster Dough and Dynamite
Dough and Dynamite
(3.0/5)
28mn - Comedy
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
poster A Hand Shake
A Hand Shake
1mn -
William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.
poster Zero for Conduct
Zero for Conduct
(1/5)
41mn - Comedy, Drama
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
poster Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
12mn - Adventure
Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by hand to colour it. Originally a 15 minute film, twelve a…
poster Monsieur Beaucaire
Monsieur Beaucaire
(3/5)
106mn - Drama, Romance
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two ma…
poster The Man of the Sea
The Man of the Sea
86mn - Drama
Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing wh…
poster Marianne
Marianne
(3.1/5)
111mn - Comedy, Music, Romance
In the waning days of World War I, Marianne, a spirited French farm girl who runs an inn and cares for war orphans, finds herself torn between duty and desire. Promised to her fiancé André who's fighting …
poster The House of Fear
The House of Fear
(3.7/5)
57mn - Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by o…
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