La grande illusion

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poster Extraordinary Illusions
Extraordinary Illusions
2mn - Comedy
Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.
poster Le Voleur invisible
Le Voleur invisible
7mn - Crime, Fantasy
A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test…
poster Strange Illusion
Strange Illusion
(3.1/5)
80mn - Drama, Thriller, Mystery
An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.
poster The Impossible Voyage
The Impossible Voyage
20mn - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
poster It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life
(4.3/5)
130mn - Drama, Family, Fantasy
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is Geor…
poster The Great Flamarion
The Great Flamarion
(3.3/5)
78mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
poster Beau Ideal
Beau Ideal
82mn - War, Adventure, Romance
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
poster Whimsical Illusions
Whimsical Illusions
5mn - Comedy, Fantasy
In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assis…
poster The Magician
The Magician
1mn - Fantasy, Drama
In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead …
poster Hollow Triumph
Hollow Triumph
(3.4/5)
83mn - Thriller, Crime
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
poster The Astronomer's Dream
The Astronomer's Dream
3mn - Fantasy
An astronomer has a terrifying dream.
poster The Four Troublesome Heads
The Four Troublesome Heads
(3.8/5)
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposi…
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 Crystal Ball
The Crystal Ball
(3.3/5)
81mn - Comedy
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
poster Destination Earth
Destination Earth
14mn - Animation
A Martian explorer discovers the secrets behind the USA's prosperity — oil and free enterprise.
poster The Lilliputian Minuet
The Lilliputian Minuet
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.
poster The Knight of the Snow
The Knight of the Snow
16mn - Adventure, Horror, Fantasy
One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of his most lavish productions, including this one. Here, Méliès performed in front…
poster The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(3.9/5)
117mn - Drama, Romance, Horror
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre …
poster The Magician
The Magician
1mn - Fantasy
The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they disappear mysteriously in the air. He then takes a white hand…
poster Svengali
Svengali
(3.4/5)
81mn - Drama, Horror, Romance
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
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