Film comique

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

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a trick film or something that he's known for, the directo…

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton and the Incoherents of club Hydropathes, the film, with…

A jazz saxophonist and a stuntman must impersonate two Brazilian billionaire cousins in Rio de Janeiro to flush out assassins plotting to kill them.

The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.

Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific island.

An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.

A couple shopping for wedding rings accidentally becomes entangled in a botched jewelry heist, forcing them to dodge bullets and navigate twisted humor as a crazy mob boss seeks deadly revenge. With hit m…

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp …

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…

A small-town ant discovers he's been fatally poisoned with no antidote and only days to live, launching a desperate race against time to track down his killer and uncover the reason for his murder …

A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.

Felix the Cat can't find anything to eat, so he bribes Father Time to send him back to when life was easier. However, the Stone Age turns out to have its own problems.

An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…

During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio. Things get messy when the stagehands decide to go on strike.

Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and be…

When a woman's husband is murdered, she finds herself pursued through Paris by dangerous men seeking the fortune he stole, relying on a charming stranger whose true identity becomes increasingly mysteriou…

Koro wants to get to the other side of the road.

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by …