Boulevard du crepuscule

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly …

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Coun…

Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death. The intrepid journalist Philippe Guérande and his partner embark on a long …

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and offers him something better.

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

View of the Westminster Bridge.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an …

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.

The lives of two young men-- A virtuous artist who's renounced a background of riches and a debonair swindler proclaimed by many the King of Paris-- intersect when the artist's mother becomes the target o…

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a s…

A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a ionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries…

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.