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- Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
- Evil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible "Plan 9" into action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth, the lives of the living are in danger.
- A construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.
- Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
- A train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- In Paris, a cat who lives a secret life as a cat burglar's aide must come to the rescue of Zoe, the little girl he lives with, after she falls into a gangster's clutches.
- Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators.
- Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime. He then blackmails Gregor's plastic surgeon father into fixing up his face so he can evade the cops.
- When a poor bicycle-taxi driver has his cyclo stolen, he is forced into a life of crime. Meanwhile, his sister becomes a sex worker.
- A phony spiritualist raises the dead.
- A french girl gifted with a great voice, has a complex about her weight and her appearance.
- Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
- An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
- A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.
- This film is about Gils, a young boy (about ten) in a juvenile mental hospital in 1950's France. Flashbacks recount his conflicts with authority and his strong relationship with Jessica, a similarly rebellious schoolmate. Simultaneously, a compassionate doctor develops a trusting friendship with Gils, which a higher-ranking authoritarian doctor tries to thwart.
- The documentary analyzes a dark period in Hollywood's history due to the Red Scare of the 1940's and 1950's, when actors, writers and directors were persecuted and investigated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee after being considered suspects of committing Anti-American acts by preaching the Communism in their films and television shows.
- In this bittersweet tale of couplings and uncouplings, a group of friends hole up for their annual Christmas gathering in Chamonix.
- Prequel to Horton Foote's '1918'. Two lovers elope on Valentine's day 1917. At Christmas the family are reunited but there is still anger amongst the parents about the elopment, but a reconciliation soon sets in.
- Tina is a young warehousewoman in a supermarket. She is in love with Fred but still lives at her mother Nadine's. When Nadine dies, Tina looks for meeting her father Ludovic, who she never knew. But she first meets her half-sister Lise, and Constantin, the unusual Ludovic's lawyer.
- 1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
- As part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.
- A London based criminal sets out to eliminate his rivals and any witnesses that get in the way.
- Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
- The photographers who need to participate in the congress of Lyon get off a boat in Neuville-sur-Saône, dividing to the right and left.
- The Lumière catalog sold this title as 13 individual, one-scene films - allowing exhibitors to choose which films they wanted to purchase and how to arrange them in their programs. Lumière catalog no. 933 through 945.
- Two duelists, armed with pistols, fire: one of them is hit and collapses.
- A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
- Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.
- Black and white film where two ladies in white throw coins to poor kids. Filmed in Vietnam.
- People start a snowball fight on a street in Lyons, France.
- Angelic and demonic serpentine dances from dawn of cinema by the Lumière Brothers film, called the Serpentine Dance. The dancer is Loie Fuller; the pioneer modern dancer. Recorded in 1896 in Paris, and hand-colored frame by frame.
- Two blacksmiths work while the vapors rise in the air. Later, another man arrives and offers a drink.
- A comedy, filled with open discussions of the reproductive process. Chronicles the result of a bargain made between a tough business woman and the owner of a small factory.
- Jack Baker arrives in Tahiti to write a new biography of Paul Gauguin. There he meets Cohn, famous for his swindling and drinking, and who claims to be the painter's heir.
- A short black and white film which documents the activities of a little girl and her cat.
- On the verdant slopes of the Vardousia Mountains, a golden cross leads to heartbreak, as a herder is losing the girl of his dreams to a wealthy suitor. Will this gift separate the star-crossed lovers, or is this the prelude to true love?
- A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged for sale.
- Humanity lives in fear of an alien invasion: for the first time in history, a coded message from outer space has reached planet Earth. A few months later, the 12,000 residents of Sepulveda vanish. Authorities immediately quarantine the area, a free zone where drug trafficking and illicit sex were the most common businesses. When strange magnetic phenomena are observed, military authorities grudgingly concede the possibility of an alien offensive, and send professor Larsen -a renowned astrophysicist specialized in UFOs- to lead a quick investigation in the ghost town.
- The transformation of the same character in six different characters. A vision of the act of transformation.
- Three men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.
- A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance.
- An oil fountain at a factory near the village of Balakhani, Russian Empire, Baku governorate.
- Early Kinora demonstration film.
- Two men play cards, as a third watches and a waiter brings drinks. The third man pours drinks as the waiter laughs.
- A black and white short in which a moving rear facing camera documents people running towards it on the street.
- Women washing their clothes by the river.
- A stationary camera looks across the boulevard at a diagonal toward one corner of Lyon's Cordeliers' Square. It's a long shot, with a great deal of depth of focus. We can see the sky and fronts of four buildings, each four or five stories tall. It's a busy thoroughfare, with pedestrians walking in front of the buildings and crossing the boulevard between horse-drawn vehicles. A double-decker bus passes in front of us, pulled by two horses. Various tradesmen pass on wagons. One van passes.
- A man tries to get on a horse , but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance.
- The first moving shot, created by a stationary camera on a gondola in Panorama du Grand Canal vu d'un Bateau, was filmed by Alexandre Promio for Louis Lumiere. Filming Locations: Venice, Veneto, Italy. Release Date: 1896 (France).