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poster Pierrot the Prodigal

Pierrot the Prodigal

A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pier…

poster Dangerous Moves

Dangerous Moves

110mn - Drama, Thriller

During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.

poster Anita Garibaldi

Anita Garibaldi

poster Glass Half

Glass Half

Two amateur art critics meet in a gallery and argue passionately about the pieces they see, until finally they find a piece on which they can agree...

poster Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil

Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then picks up as the painter goes haywire and sends the assi…

Protéa

50mn - Action, Crime, Mystery

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Jose…

poster Modern Sculptors

Modern Sculptors

5mn - Animation, Fantasy

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take life, and one can follow a snake-like line branding on…

poster Poor Pierrot

Poor Pierrot

15mn - Comedy, Animation

One night, Arlequin comes to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.

poster Raise Your Hands, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest

Raise Your Hands, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest

94mn - Action, Romance, Western

A pacifist army medic witnesses the brutal massacre of wounded soldiers and transforms into a deadly avenger, hunting down the ruthless captain responsible in a relentless quest for vengeance across the A…

poster Vacuum Killer

Vacuum Killer

After losing an arm in an explosion caused by his attempt to resurrect his recently deceased mother, Chris Burst, a young laboratory assistant, seeks refuge in the home of a drug dealer known to his frien…

poster Dough and Dynamite

Dough and Dynamite

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 The Hands of Orlac

The Hands of Orlac

113mn - Crime, Drama, Horror

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

poster The King of Paris

The King of Paris

The lives of two young men-- A virtuous artist who's renounced a background of riches and a debonair swindler proclaimed by many the King of Paris-- intersect when the artist's mother becomes the target o…

poster J'accuse

J'accuse

140mn - War, Drama, History

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.

poster Assunta Spina

Assunta Spina

Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to …

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 Entr'acte

Entr'acte

22mn - Comedy, Fantasy

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp …

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 The Defect

The Defect

LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the head of the institution, but when an old habitué of the d…

poster Sir Arne's Treasure

Sir Arne's Treasure

106mn - History, Drama

Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charmin…

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