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poster Robert Macaire and Bertrand

Robert Macaire and Bertrand

11mn - Comedy, Crime

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.

poster Crainquebille

Crainquebille

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…

poster How They Rob Men in Chicago

How They Rob Men in Chicago

1mn - Crime, Comedy

A burlesque on the work of highwaymen in Chicago. An elderly gentleman is sandbagged and robbed by a thug, who inadvertently leaves some money on the victim's prostrate body. A policeman shows up.

poster Forlorn River

Forlorn River

56mn - Action, Western

Nevada, a wandering cowboy, hijacks stolen bank loot from a gang of outlaws, only to find himself entangled in a scheme involving government horse buyers, corrupt officials, and a beautiful ranch owner's …

poster Boules Game

Boules Game

1mn - Documentary

poster The Voyage of M. Bourrichon

The Voyage of M. Bourrichon

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

poster Léonce Loves Morels

Léonce Loves Morels

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

poster Barrabas

Barrabas

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring S…

poster Robin Hood of the Pecos

Robin Hood of the Pecos

In post-Civil War Texas, former Confederate prisoner Vance Corbin returns home to find his county under the iron grip of corrupt carpetbaggers led by Ambrose Ballard. Elected as sheriff, Vance must fight …

poster Cordeliers' Square in Lyon

Cordeliers' Square in Lyon

1mn - Documentary

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

poster Rustlers on Horseback

Rustlers on Horseback

U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane goes undercover to infiltrate a ruthless gang led by a seemingly harmless book salesman planning a massive land swindle, but his mission becomes complicated when another vigilante …

poster Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

113mn - Adventure, Drama, History

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The…

poster The King and the Jester

The King and the Jester

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

poster Rogues' Tricks

Rogues' Tricks

4mn - Comedy, Action

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a trick film or something that he's known for, the directo…

poster Robin Hood

Robin Hood

30mn - Romance, Adventure, Drama

Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th centur…

poster Beau Ideal

Beau Ideal

82mn - War, Adventure, Romance

An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

poster Chicot the Jester

Chicot the Jester

The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Coun…

poster The Golden Louis

The Golden Louis

An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune, but he can't find her again to repay her.

poster Nursing a Viper

Nursing a Viper

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguis…

Louisa

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.

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