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poster Madame DuBarry
Madame DuBarry
(3.3/5)
114mn - Drama, History
The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
poster The Barometer of Fidelity
The Barometer of Fidelity
15mn - Comedy
This Max Linder short opens with him and his girl blissfully rowing in a canoe before skipping ahead two years later.
poster Pierrot the Prodigal
Pierrot the Prodigal
(2.7/5)
65mn - Drama
A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pier…
poster The King and the Jester
The King and the Jester
5mn - Comedy
French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).
poster Le goûter des bébés
Le goûter des bébés
1mn - Documentary
poster Petit frère et petite sœur
Petit frère et petite sœur
(3/5)
1mn - Documentary, Family
In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.
poster The Man of the Sea
The Man of the Sea
86mn - Drama
Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing wh…
poster Vendémiaire
Vendémiaire
(3.6/5)
149mn - Drama
If you’re already familiar with Louis Feuillade, his little-known opus Vendémiaire may come as a surprise. Unlike the bulk of his work which was characterised as ‘Fantastic Realism’, Vendémiaire is wonder…
poster The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
(3.2/5)
9mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an …
poster Frenchman's Creek
Frenchman's Creek
(3.2/5)
120mn - Drama, History, Romance
Seeking to escape the stifling London court society, the beautiful headstrong Lady Dona St. Columb flees to her family estate on the Cornish coast. Her new freedom swiftly brings her into contact with the…
poster Unconquered
Unconquered
(3.4/5)
146mn - Adventure, Drama, History
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin t…
poster The Marriage Circle
The Marriage Circle
(3.5/5)
85mn - Comedy
An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.
poster The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror
(2.8/5)
102mn - History, Drama
The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his und…
poster Woman to Woman
Woman to Woman
(3.6/5)
82mn - Drama, Romance
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married …
poster The Lilliputian Minuet
The Lilliputian Minuet
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.
poster Faust in the Underworld
Faust in the Underworld
7mn - Fantasy
The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with sim…
poster Marianne
Marianne
(3.1/5)
111mn - Comedy, Music, Romance
In the waning days of World War I, Marianne, a spirited French farm girl who runs an inn and cares for war orphans, finds herself torn between duty and desire. Promised to her fiancé André who's fighting …
poster Song of Surrender
Song of Surrender
(3.3/5)
93mn - Romance, Drama, Music
In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in their ages in this…
poster Saut à la couverte
Saut à la couverte
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
Jumping the Blanket.
poster The Fairy of Spring
The Fairy of Spring
3mn - Fantasy
It is winter and a couple invites an old woman to eat. The old woman then becomes a fairy and makes the spring appears.
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