Jirai

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poster Jiraiya the Hero

Jiraiya the Hero

21mn - Action, Fantasy

Jiraiya is some sort of super-ninja with superpowers. He can fly, he can avoid detection by turning himself into a toad, and he has some sort of ability to vanish.

poster Kiri-Kis

Kiri-Kis

3mn - Comedy, Fantasy

A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.

poster Protéa

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 Judex

Judex

300mn - Adventure, Drama, Mystery

When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengean…

poster Katsudō Shashin

Katsudō Shashin

1mn - Animation, Family

A boy in a cadet's uniform paints a statement on the top of the frame and then tips his cap to the audience. Also known as "Matsumoto fragment".

poster The Funeral of Tomijiro Kobayashi

The Funeral of Tomijiro Kobayashi

8mn - Documentary

poster Harakiri

Harakiri

The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to c…

poster La Belle Nivernaise

La Belle Nivernaise

A young man falls in love with the daughter of the man who adopted him.

poster Crainquebille

Crainquebille

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…

poster Jitterbugs

Jitterbugs

Two traveling musicians unwittingly become part of a gasoline pill scam during wartime rationing, then team up with a charming con man to help a young singer recover her family's stolen fortune through an…

poster Fate of Graduates

Fate of Graduates

The film tells the tragic story of two recent college graduates, Tao Jianping ("Tao" is a homophone for peach), and Li Lilian ("Li" is a homophone for plum). Married, the two hope to change society for th…

poster Jack and Jill 3

Jack and Jill 3

A group of internet show creators ventures to an infamous hill to investigate the legendary Jack and Jill murders, but their quest for viral content turns into a deadly game of survival when the killers r…

poster Infrared

Infrared

A paranormal investigator and his estranged psychic sister are forced to reunite when their reality TV crew gains access to an abandoned school where students died in a tragic gas leak. As they attempt to…

poster Racquet

Racquet

Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis court.

poster Mirages

Mirages

37mn - Drama, Romance

Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of her youthful innocence and purity, Dymov is protective o…

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…

Evolver

90mn - Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A teenage gaming prodigy wins a cutting-edge robotic opponent in a laser tag contest, but soon discovers his prize is actually a military prototype designed to kill. As the robot learns from each encounte…

poster Return to Reason

Return to Reason

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 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 Hadj Cheriff

Hadj Cheriff

Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife in his hand at the opening of the act. He then hurls the…

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