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poster Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
74mn - Comedy, Sci-Fi
The Singer Duke Mitchell meets Sammy Petrillo in this parody of Martin & Lewis. They arrive on a jungle island, where a mad scientist played by Bela Lugosi makes human experiments.
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 Ballet Mécanique
Ballet Mécanique
19mn - Documentary, Fantasy
A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.
poster Return to Reason
Return to Reason
3mn - Drama
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
poster Marching On
Marching On
118mn - War, Drama
After finding a golden coin, a young orphaned boy's wild spending leads him down a path of materialism and debt, until he escapes to his uncle's countryside retreat where he learns three essential life le…
poster Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
13mn - Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
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 Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk
(2.9/5)
70mn - Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans. Ascending the beanstalk with the butcher who sold him the beans, he faces the giant terrorizing his village.
poster Tit-for-Tat
Tit-for-Tat
(3.1/5)
5mn - Fantasy
An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.
poster Snowball Fight
Snowball Fight
1mn - Documentary, Comedy
Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along the road becomes the target of opportunity. He falls off…
poster Stop Thief!
Stop Thief!
2mn - Crime, Comedy
A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, joined by dogs, as neighbors watch the spectacle. The hobo jumps into a lar…
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 Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil
Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil
(2.7/5)
5mn -
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…
poster Fun in a Bakery Shop
Fun in a Bakery Shop
2mn - Comedy
A baker's assistant throws a handful of dough at a rat. The dough sticks to the side of a barrel and the assistant proceeds to sculpt the dough into various faces and shapes. There is some experimental us…
poster The Four Musicians of Bremen
The Four Musicians of Bremen
7mn - Animation
Four animal musicians consisting of a Horse, Cat, Dog, & Rooster set out on their own quest to try to find some fame by playing their own music. Unfortunitly every where they go, trouble always occurs…
poster Rukus
Rukus
(3.2/5)
87mn - Drama, Animation, Fantasy
A hybrid of documentary and fiction, Rukus is a queer coming-of-age story set in the liminal spaces of furry conventions, southern punk houses, and virtual worlds.
poster King of Dollars
King of Dollars
2mn - Fantasy
A magician shows tricks with money.
poster Alcofribas, The Master Magician
Alcofribas, The Master Magician
4mn -
Two men in a cave perform magic.
poster The Blue Bird
The Blue Bird
(3.5/5)
75mn - Drama, Fantasy
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Do…
poster The Rembrandt in Rue Lepic
The Rembrandt in Rue Lepic
(3.1/5)
6mn -
A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after a woman sits on it.
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