A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
1901-12-01
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Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.
The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.
Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.
Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a row. The device, automatic, produced images in a row without human intervention, being used to serve as photographic evidence of the passage of Venus before the Sun, in 1874.
A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome. The Knight commands her to leave, and when he is about to force her away she sits on her broom and rises to the moon. After disappearing she causes various hob-goblins to haunt the pair, the last of them stealing away the lady while the Knight's back is turned. The Knight, frantic with grief, is suddenly confronted by a Fairy, who presents him with a magical sword, and tells him that he can use it to regain the young woman.
In a village, a young blind man, victim of a storm, will be iniated by a women to overcome his fears. Thanks to the musical quality of a flute, he will be able to exorcize their fears of the villagers and to offer a different perception of the natural elements.
An artist settles down on a folding stool right in the middle of the street and starts playing. Soon enough, objects of all sorts are thrown from the windows, without interrupting the musician’s inspiration… until a little girl shows up.
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.
Based on the true story of a successful couple, Maggie and Aaron who are preparing for the arrival of their first child.
Luis Miguel, a 30-35 year old man, unemployed, lonely and with a boring life. He realizes that his Wednesdays are disappearing, or worse, someone is stealing them, and oddly enough there is an association behind all this trafficking in his days. After discovering it, Luis Miguel turns his sad life upside down and begins to fight against the association.
A quirky high school girl has to learn that you can't fit friendship into a checkbox.
A young man living with his parents in Wisconsin comes face to face with a terrifying monster while searching for the elusive cryptic known as the Hodag.
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Matthias is going on a weekend course of self-discovery called “My Value on Earth,” which was an expensive gift from his girlfriend. The course is supposed to help him deal with his chronic inability to finish things that he’s started. But before Matthias leaves, his girlfriend springs a surprise on him: he’s going to be a father. And so he hopes to use the weekend, which he has no real desire to go on, to answer new and pressing questions. The “alternative” therapist, however, doesn’t inspire much trust. The tragicomedy Frantic Attempts takes aim at the field of personal development, in particular, dubious therapists who offer quick fixes. After all, what if we should answer our existential questions ourselves instead of trying to find answers from others?
End of summer. This is the last night Cédric spends with Sofiane and his sick father. To ward off the morbidity taking over the house and create a lasting memory, Cédric suggests to go on a night excursion in the neighborhood... in underwear.
The last three Zombies on earth are trapped inside a cabin, while an angry mob of humans linger outside. The three of them don't have much time to waste as the humans grow restless.
Obro the muscleman goes to Atlantis and sinks a death-ray king who knows the secret of immortality.
This is a poetic film set in the times of Lenin's NEP. A ballet dancer steals a brooch and gives it as a present to another dancer. This is a crime of passion. A mysterious black ball is after the heroine. She runs away from it and manages to give the brooch in an exquisite pirouette movement, as shiny as diamond facets. What gives a stone its dazzling luster are its polished facets. But the real gem is love, and it's much harder to get than any diamond in the world.
An uninspired stand-up comedian and a witty med school graduate tackle the ups and downs of life as they are forced to choose between their relationship and their careers.
A traffic warden runs into a surprising argument with a persisting customer.
Kelly makes a significant trade without consulting her husband
The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. But thanks to a secret depilatory he developed, Clipton has the edge.
Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.
An argument between two families in a thrift store erupts into a full-scale brawl.
Our plasticine pooch pal Rex welcomes us to his world, introduces us to his friends, and illustrates how Bad Bob caused dinosaurs' extinction (whoops!)
Our plasticine pooch pal Rex welcomes us to his dreamworld.