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poster What Is Seen Through a Keyhole

What Is Seen Through a Keyhole

Pathé film number 380, also known as "What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor" (US) and "Peeping Tom" (UK). It should not be confused with its remake from 1905 also titled What is Seen Through a Keyhole,…

poster Wintergartenprogramm

Wintergartenprogramm

On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s Wintergarten Theater. With live musical accompaniment, the compilatio…

poster The Weekend

The Weekend

A hilarious and spontaneous ensemble film shot in real time about eight former summer campers who take over a rental cottage in upstate New York for one last crazy weekend.

poster Rent Control

Rent Control

95mn - Romance, Comedy, Short

Aspiring actors in New York try to keep the death of one's aunt a secret so they can stay in her cheap apartment.

poster Through The Back Door

Through The Back Door

90mn - Comedy, Drama

A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.

poster Like a Bat Outta Hell

Like a Bat Outta Hell

83mn - Sci-Fi, Horror

Four documentary filmmakers venture into the Australian outback to capture footage in the remote settlement of "Nowhere Else," where the lone remaining resident warns them to stay inside after dark. When …

poster Abbey Grace

Abbey Grace

When Stacy returns to her childhood home to care for her agoraphobic brother Ben after their mother's death, she discovers the house harbors a dark secret involving a vengeful spirit from its past as an o…

poster Hamlet in the Golden Vale

Hamlet in the Golden Vale

Eight dedicated actors arrive at a haunting, centuries-old Irish castle to immerse themselves completely in Shakespeare's most psychologically complex tragedy. As they bring Hamlet to life within the anci…

poster The Tramp and the Mattress Makers

The Tramp and the Mattress Makers

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

poster Hunky and Spunky

Hunky and Spunky

9mn - Animation

A short film about a mother and her son, she teaches him life skills later on the son gets niked by a man so the young donkey can be his work slave and his mother saves him. Preserved by the Academy Film…

poster Oh, Tomorrow Night...

Oh, Tomorrow Night...

"Oh, Tomorrow Night ..." Slipper hero Ernst Rolf is married to a real Xantippa and also has concerns with the economy, so when the superintendent is shirking his home. In town, he meets his friend Boman a…

poster Ghost Webcam

Ghost Webcam

Trapped under house arrest, a young man witnesses his virtual date's horrifying death through a mysterious webcam feed from a haunted house. Unable to leave home without risking arrest, he must rely on hi…

poster Anything Once!

Anything Once!

ANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and dreaming of a better life. We're told that she's taken a lot of bumps in life and doesn't know where the next bump …

poster The Blacksmiths

The Blacksmiths

1mn - Documentary

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water,…

poster Max and Jane Want to Do Theater

Max and Jane Want to Do Theater

Max is a stage struck youth, and because of a deep-seated desire to go on the stage, refuses to consent to a marriage his father has planned for him. The girl, whom Max has never met, is also stage struck…

poster Unwritten

Unwritten

84mn - Thriller

An agoraphobic failed writer living in a remote bookstore becomes convinced that a mysterious customer is actually the villain from an unfinished story he wrote as a child, forcing him to confront his dee…

poster Rentrée à l'étable

Rentrée à l'étable

1mn - Documentary

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

poster The Diligent Orderly

The Diligent Orderly

A comedic short about a clumsy valet.

poster A Modern Cinderella

A Modern Cinderella

This Cinderella is up to date. She and her sister Jane receive an invitation to a reception. Jane, selfish and arrogant, is carried away with her own vanity and anticipation of making a "hit" and being th…

poster The Phantom Athlete

The Phantom Athlete

89mn - Adventure

In a plot similar to, but predating, the later Superman stories, a young girl, Jenny, is involved in several dangerous adventures as a result of her possession of a valuable jewel. Each time she is saved …

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