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poster His New Profession

His New Profession

Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.

poster A Hand Shake

A Hand Shake

William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.

poster The Trial

The Trial

100mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform …

poster Zero for Conduct

Zero for Conduct

41mn - Comedy, Drama

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

poster Convict 13

Convict 13

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

poster Tit-for-Tat

Tit-for-Tat

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

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 The Rink

The Rink

After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

poster The Last Command

The Last Command

88mn - Drama, History, Romance

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

poster Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary

Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary

98mn - Documentary

Filmmaker S.R. Bindler profiles Texas contestants trying to win a truck by keeping one hand on it longer than everyone else.

poster The St. Francisville Experiment

The St. Francisville Experiment

79mn - Horror, Thriller

Four non-actors, with no script, lock themselves in a haunted Louisiana plantation home overnight to film what takes places. The Lalaurie plantation, site of grisly murders, comes alive before their camer…

poster By the Sea

By the Sea

It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to t…

poster Rentrée à l'étable

Rentrée à l'étable

1mn - Documentary

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

poster Let's Get Tough

Let's Get Tough

Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short swor…

poster Buried Alive

Buried Alive

62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…

poster The Drawing Lesson

The Drawing Lesson

In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding the fountain to his liking he goes after his scholars.…

poster Within Our Gates

Within Our Gates

79mn - Drama, Romance

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.

poster Shoulder Arms

Shoulder Arms

45mn - Comedy, War

An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.

poster Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

poster Life with Father

Life with Father

118mn - Comedy, Family

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

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