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poster Léonce Loves Morels

Léonce Loves Morels

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

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 Gopher Spinach

Gopher Spinach

6mn - Animation

Popeye is planting his spinach bed. Just as he finishes, the plants start disappearing. He discovers a gopher filching the baby plants and starts battling it.

Algiers

96mn - Drama, Action, Mystery

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture ar…

poster His Name Was Pot, but They Called Him Allegria

His Name Was Pot, but They Called Him Allegria

Brothers Pot and Ray pull off a daring bank robbery, but when their new partner Steve double-crosses them and Ray is murdered for the gold, Pot finds himself caught in a deadly game of betrayal and reveng…

poster Blow Me Down!

Blow Me Down!

6mn - Animation, Comedy

Popeye sails into Mexico, where Olive is a dancer and Bluto is a bandit.

poster Pierrot the Prodigal

Pierrot the Prodigal

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 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 Poor Pierrot

Poor Pierrot

15mn - Comedy, Animation

One night, Arlequin comes to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.

poster Le fils de Locuste

Le fils de Locuste

The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother.

poster Saut à la couverte

Saut à la couverte

1mn - Documentary

Jumping the Blanket.

poster Ancient Fistory

Ancient Fistory

7mn - Comedy, Animation, Family

It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye's fairy godpappy appears and it's a reverse Cinderella st…

poster Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

poster Princess Tam Tam

Princess Tam Tam

77mn - Drama, Comedy

A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.

poster The Paleface

The Paleface

20mn - Western, Comedy

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons …

poster Pay or Die

Pay or Die

An underworld kingpin's daughter is kidnapped by his own men. So, he calls in Cleopatra Wong, a beautiful karate queen. She brings a team with her - a 300+ pound psychic and a female impersonator

poster The Black Orchid

The Black Orchid

95mn - Romance, Drama

An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow.

poster Messalina

Messalina

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The…

poster Beau Ideal

Beau Ideal

82mn - War, Adventure, Romance

An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

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.

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