The reader

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poster Mirages
Mirages
(3/5)
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 Goofy Goofy Gander
Goofy Goofy Gander
(3.1/5)
7mn - Animation
Little Audrey isn't interested in reciting Mother Goose rhymes with the other kids in class. She'd rather read her modern comic book. When she's caught not paying attention by the teacher, she is ordered …
poster The Young Lady and the Hooligan
The Young Lady and the Hooligan
(3.2/5)
44mn - Drama, Romance
A young woman arrives in her school where she must teach for the first time. Her task consists in teaching a class of adults to read and write. All her students are male, ranging from boys to old men, and…
poster The Yawner
The Yawner
4mn - Comedy
A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he proceeds to make others yawn as well, including a shop keepe…
poster Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
7mn - Drama
As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.
poster The Phantom Athlete
The Phantom Athlete
89mn - Adventure
In a plot similar to, but predating, the later Superman stories, a young girl, Jenny, is involved in several dangerous adventures as a result of her possession of a valuable jewel. Each time she is saved …
poster Faust and Marguerite
Faust and Marguerite
1mn - Fantasy, Horror
Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite. Faust refuses, whereupon Meph…
poster Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
(3.3/5)
74mn - Drama
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thi…
poster The Little Tease
The Little Tease
25mn - Drama
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. Bu…
poster Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
3mn - Comedy
A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …
poster The Burning Crucible
The Burning Crucible
(3.7/5)
97mn - Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on t…
poster The Drawing Lesson
The Drawing Lesson
2mn -
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 The Musgrave Ritual
The Musgrave Ritual
(2.6/5)
18mn - Mystery, Crime
Reginald Musgrave’s maître d’hôtel has disappeared! Called to the rescue, Sherlock Holmes goes immediately to his friend, to inspect the premises. He finds a stolen jewel in the new maître d’hôtel’s jacke…
poster The Magic Book
The Magic Book
(3.1/5)
3mn - Fantasy
Characters from a large magic book come to life.
poster The Mystic Swing
The Mystic Swing
1mn - Fantasy
The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady disappear from the swing, to the surprise of the professor…
poster An Artist's Dream
An Artist's Dream
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the frames and walk forward, admiring their costumes. Mep…
poster The Byzantine Cat
The Byzantine Cat
90mn -
Sent to Cyprus to find her next story, young journalist Jane Spencer is intrigued by the discovery of a cat's monastery where the cats are blessed with miraculous gifts.
poster Unwritten
Unwritten
84mn - Thriller
An agoraphobic failed writer living in a remote bookstore becomes convinced that a mysterious customer is actually the villain from an unfinished story he wrote as a child, forcing him to confront his dee…
poster The Magician and the Imp
The Magician and the Imp
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth is suddenly transformed into a beautiful girl, clad i…
poster The Average Woman
The Average Woman
(2.9/5)
48mn - Drama, Romance
Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and …
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