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The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jodie Foster

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leonard Maltin

In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Gustav Fröhlich

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces;...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Hessling

A boy falls for a princess, his cat for hers. But her father does not like the idea of a commoner marrying a noblewoman and kicks him out. After...

Genre: Animation

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A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georgia Williams

A man is robbed and creates a plan to get his money back from the robber.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fabio Minozzi

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Matthew Sweet

A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dmitri Frolov

For the Honour of Australia is a 1916 film composed of footage from two 1915 Australian silent films, For Australia and How We Beat the Emden, plus...

Genre: History

Cast: Boyd Irwin

The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Porfirio Díaz

One fine morning it stopped working and I realized my little compact camera was dying. So I started taking as many photos as possible with it before...

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Cast: Sheram Chingkhei

The epic and poetic tale of the early years of Italian cinema, from 1896 to 1930: how peplum was born, how the first stars shone, how many daring...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Isabella Rossellini

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ary Severo

Comedy short film directed by Filippo Martelli.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spyros Dimitrakopoulos

A father sacrifices an animal on the day of Eid al-Adha according to the traditions and customs of the past. According to the old custom, he gives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramazan Öğüt

A snappy young book agent reforms and becomes a cook for a group of Boy Scouts.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmie Adams

Two-reel comedy, directed by William S. Campbell staring noted orangutan actor, Joe Martin

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Martin