La vie à l'envers

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows la vie à l'envers

poster Wild Oranges

Wild Oranges

88mn - Drama, Romance

Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie. One day widower John Wool…

poster The Voyage of M. Bourrichon

The Voyage of M. Bourrichon

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

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 Seven Years Bad Luck

Seven Years Bad Luck

After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck, but in doing so causes himself the worst luck imaginable.

poster Behind Office Doors

Behind Office Doors

82mn - Drama, Romance

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.

poster The Family Next Door

The Family Next Door

Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad li…

poster Sabotage

Sabotage

76mn - Drama, Thriller

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationshi…

poster Twisted Minds

Twisted Minds

81mn - Drama, Horror

Local banker Bruno Adani's life is turned upside down when his stepbrother, Greg Tillney's darkened past catches up with him.

poster The Dance of Life

The Dance of Life

115mn - Romance, Drama, Music

A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act b…

poster Love Lessons

Love Lessons

97mn - Drama, Short

An older couple are about to retire, when they find out that they're about to be parents all over again.

poster Strange Illusion

Strange Illusion

80mn - Drama, Thriller, Mystery

An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.

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 Elvis Lives!

Elvis Lives!

82mn - Comedy, Drama, Thriller

When legendary musician Elvis Presley agrees to work as an undercover FBI agent, he finds himself entangled with a deadly crime syndicate that threatens everything he holds dear. Forced to fake his own de…

poster Borrowed Wives

Borrowed Wives

Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".

Secrets

An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. Th…

poster The Living Playing Cards

The Living Playing Cards

poster Isn't Life Terrible?

Isn't Life Terrible?

Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with…

poster Yesterday's Children

Yesterday's Children

A mother haunted by vivid dreams of another life travels to Ireland to uncover the truth about her past incarnation as an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s, leading to an emotional reunion with the childre…

poster Backstairs

Backstairs

In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman p…

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…

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