The story of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of his Nativity to his Ascension into heaven. Impressive staging and beautiful hand-coloring distinguish the film from its Passion-play counterparts; Its scale and dynamic crowds prelude the Italian epics to come.
Die Ermordung des Herzogs von Guise ist ein französischer Historienfilm aus dem Jahr 1908 über die Umstände des Todes von Henri I. de Lorraine, duc de Guise.
Klassiker des pazifistischen Films. Der zweiteilige Film entstand 1918 noch auf den Schlachtfeldern bei Verdun und führt in eindrucksvollen Bildern die Agonie des Krieges vor Augen.
Der Film beginnt mit einem Einbruch, der mit einem Raubmord endet. Die Polizei kann schließlich den Täter festnehmen. Dieser wartet im Gefängnis auf seine Hinrichtung und blickt noch einmal auf die wichtigsten Stationen seines Lebens zurück. Dann kommt schließlich der Moment, in dem er mittels Guillotine hingerichtet wird.
A pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections.
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A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.
A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.
Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.
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 undertaking by Dixmer, a master tanner who passes himself off as an ardent revolutionary and his wife Geneviève, who also happens to be the Knight's sister. While on mission with her brother, she is saved from arrest thanks to the intervention of Lieutenant Maurice Lindey. Geneviève, who is married without love to Dixmer, falls for the young man, who requites her love. A tunnel is dug between a house rented by Dixmer and the Tower of the Temple but the various attempts to rescue the queen attempts fail. Marie-Antoinette risks the guillotine/ Moreover, Lindey finds himself involved in the plot...
A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.
A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.
As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading. Jean finds work at a local farm, but he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the conflicts in Françoise's family.
This film tells the dramatic story of the death of this famous Bible character and his trip to the witch of Endor, who forecasted his tragic end. The story is dramatic in the extreme and beautifully played.
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An adaptation of an episode in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean is welcomed into the Bishop of Digne's home, and steals his silverware.
A woman is sealed in a haunted castle to be the bride of a living skeleton.
The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for himself. Aladdin must regain the lamp or lose everything.
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Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.
A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.
Max is invited to join his uncle for a holiday, but he hasn't invited his wife, so he sneaks her in in his suitcase, always hiding her from his uncle...
A laundry man parks his horse-drawn cart to make a delivery. While he is inside, his horse sees a bag of oats and starts to eat them. By the time the man comes back outside, the horse has eaten a whole bag of oats, and has so much energy that he begins to race out of control.
Auf ärztliche Anweisung kauft Max eine Badewanne, aber die Dinge laufen nicht wie geplant.
This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.
Story set in the Middle Ages. A page and the daughter of a baron want to marry each other against the will of her father, who wants his daughter to marry another man. A sorceress predicts the future for the couple and provides the page with a bottle of poison for the other marriage candidate, which almost falls into the wrong hands.
The oldest surviving film in the Léontine series, this incomplete escapade features everyone’s favorite “mistress of mayhem” doing what she does best: wreaking total havoc and defying repressive authority. Léontine runs errands for a milliner, whereupon she steals the ludicrously oversized chapeau she was tasked with delivering to a valued customer. She adds insult to injury by leading her property-owning victims down a royal road of utter humiliation.
An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.
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