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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 The Tramp and the Mattress Makers
The Tramp and the Mattress Makers
4mn - Comedy
A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.
poster The Seduction of Gina
The Seduction of Gina
(3.1/5)
91mn - Drama, Short
Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last.
poster The Bargain Hunt
The Bargain Hunt
11mn - Comedy
The Smith Family goes for bargain hunt at a warehouse sale.
poster The Kleptomaniac
The Kleptomaniac
10mn - Crime
A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by store employees. Meanwhile, a poor woman with two sma…
poster Electric Current
Electric Current
2mn - Crime, Comedy
A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.
poster Coffee Run
Coffee Run
(5/5)
3mn - Animation
Fueled by caffeine, a young woman runs through the bittersweet memories of her past relationship. All graphic content is CC-By Blender Studio.
poster Wiretapper
Wiretapper
(2.9/5)
80mn -
A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.
poster The Canary Murder Case
The Canary Murder Case
(3.0/5)
82mn - Crime, Mystery
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and…
poster Betrayed by a Handprint
Betrayed by a Handprint
8mn - Crime
Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé. During the evening bridge participated in by a number …
poster Flirty Four-Flushers
Flirty Four-Flushers
(3.1/5)
19mn - Comedy
With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
poster KoKo Lamps Aladdin
KoKo Lamps Aladdin
6mn - Animation
Ko-Ko the Clown enters a storybook and uses Aladdin's magic lamp to make his wishes come true.
poster Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis
Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis
(3.8/5)
90mn - Documentary
Art experts and historians delve into the secrets behind Johannes Vermeer's most famous masterpiece, exploring the mysterious identity of the girl with the pearl earring and revealing the artistic techniq…
poster Games of Youth
Games of Youth
1mn - Documentary
Compilation of two shorts also distributed independently: Cricket und Reifenspiel [Croquet and the Arc and Hook Game], and Springschnur und Amazonen [Jump Roping and the Amazons]. In a sunny day, on a law…
poster Picking Peaches
Picking Peaches
22mn - Comedy, Animation
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when…
poster The Music Box
The Music Box
83mn - Thriller
An orphaned six-year-old girl becomes dangerously entranced by a mysterious antique music box that plays longer each time it's wound, forcing her desperate aunt to race against time and an evil spirit to …
poster Exposure
Exposure
(2.7/5)
71mn - Drama
A washed-up alcoholic reporter gets a second chance when he's hired to save a failing newspaper owned by a determined young woman who inherited her father's struggling business. As he uses sensationalisti…
poster The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
3mn - Comedy
A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a mercantile establishment when the cops stage a raid.
poster Blondie on a Budget
Blondie on a Budget
(3.3/5)
72mn - Comedy
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for …
poster The Waif and the Wizard
The Waif and the Wizard
2mn - Drama, Fantasy
The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's another early example of a two-shot film along the lines …
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