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At the end of the 19th century, on an isolated farm, Zélie is trapped under the authority of her father, Jacob, a deeply religious man. As a mysterious disease known as the “Black Veil” ravages the surrounding countryside and faith begins to blur with madness, she must fight to preserve her humanity and claim her freedom.
Showing a weird invention, called hypnotic mirror, in action. Placed before anyone the polished surface reflects the actual thoughts within their minds. Its uses in the court room, the home and the school house are cleverly shown. When the mechanism tells a wife the truth about her husband, something commences.
During a ride on the merry-go-round, a little girl will experience her life on a trip along the water.
A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous.
A runner, in the middle of his race, sees how the empty water bottle he throws into the wheat field mysteriously returns to the path.
Two boys meet a girl, and the three of them go wandering together; they stop in a house, and there the past mixes with the present. Cannes Film Festival 1973.
The dictator Anastasio rules with an iron fist backed by business-men making deals and speeches about building canals, completely disconnected from the chaos amongst the population. Anastasio is rumored to have died after an incident with a mirror and a violent confrontation after literally crowing as a cock amongst his chicken followers. The afterlife is shown as a casino where Anastasio strong-arms his way into heaven. Divination is used to find the next dictator, and a sailor and his black, peasant sidekick find themselves attempting to start a revolution with an organ, dragging it through the countryside, as the movie explores the country, culture and music.
Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.
In 1995, during the Angolan civil war, Nayola sets out in search of her missing husband.
Jordan, a shy and sweet boy, lives in foster care. The last visit he makes to his father in the hospital does not go as planned.
In a small town on the Celtic coast, an ancient legend haunts the lives of the inhabitants. Young men are disappearing at sea. Some see it as the work of the devil, others blame a sea creature from the ancient world. All the clues seem to lead back to the city of Ys. Léon and his friends decide to investigate, even if it means descending to the depths of the abyss.
In this adaptation of a Stephen King short story, Weber’s addiction to poker leads him into deep trouble. Forced to cover his debt to Mr Rudy, he reaches a point of no return.
For every generation the doomsday clock is ticking louder and human beings feel they live in the most bizarre and dreadful time ever. No one knows if it’s an incapability to comprehend the existence, a need to return to a more primitive state or a pure idealization of nihilism. After the Great Blackout a man seeks out his past. By confronting his feminine and masculine alter egos he strives to restore his identity. The emergence of his most primal instincts is an absolutely straightforward and unequivocal reflection of the present day.
Night has just fallen. It's time to sleep, except for Sandier, whose hard work is just beginning. On his bike, with a large canvas bag filled with sand on the back, he crosses the city to put the children to sleep. Standing in front of a house, ready to enter, he discovers that he has clumsily forgotten his bag on his bike. He turns around and is stunned to find that his bike has disappeared.
Experience a cold world full of people whose heads have been replaced by a cage filled with a rubber balloon.
A clockmaker’s daughter daydreams of a magic world inside a clock.
Eustache, a young cloth merchant's clerk preparing to marry Javotte, his boss's daughter, has his fortune told by a strange magician: "You will die greater than you have lived!" he tells him. The prophecy seems wonderful. "But you will die hanged!" he continues. Frightened, Eustache is willing to do anything to escape his fate and agrees to pledge his right hand, renamed the "Hand of Glory," to the magician...
Toby and his sister Liz live with their aunt and uncle, who take in Cambodian orphan Hoang while he awaits foster placement. The trio become fast friends, and, as they explore a nearby wood, encounter a retired engineer living in an abandoned freight car. Playing off Toby's already active imagination, the kids and the engineer use the train car to make a fantastic journey to Cambodia.
Four young Marseillais flee from the police by taking refuge in an insalubrious building. The neighborhood is in ruins, and the building opposite collapsed recently.
Stanley is seven years old when he accidentally discovers that his brain is made of gold.
A French adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt", staged by David Bobée.
A family tries to eat dinner, but the table vanishes and reappears, changes shape and location, all in the usual manner laid down by Melies, but here copied by Segundo de Chomón.
As its title indicates, La Mort du Cygne is set in the special world of the ballet. Young dance student Rose Souris idolizes her teacher-role-model Mademoiselle Beaupré, and will do anything to help Mademoiselle Beaupré further herself. Thus, when rival ballerina Nathalie Karine lands a much-coveted role, Rose arranges an accident causing Nathalie to break her leg. The girl comes to regret her rash behavior when it appears as though Nathalie will never dance again.
Following a pandemic, the irreducible spectators of the Cinémamecque are forced not stay in their favorite cinema. The director of the Cinémamecque decides to keep his moviegoers inside the theater, in quarantine. These confined cinema-goers, tested negative, are determined to take advantage of the new confines that projection allows them. What if the cinema was a drunken boat of new horizons?
A man wakes up in the middle of the night and wanders about, encountering various apparitions until dawn.
The encounter of a young doctor and a werewolf is the setting of unexpected results in another example of Eugène Green's taste for the fantastic.
Suffocating in her older sister's flawless system, Mae, a young goddess, questions her tedious work of maintaining an eternal spring.
The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's just another kung fu epic. Rather, the film is a likeable mixture of science fiction and humor, centered around the money-making schemes of star David La Haye. Unable to make ends meet with his minimum-wage job, La Haye hires himself out as a guinea pig to genially loopy scientist Marie Tifo. It is the doctor's contention that a person's intelligence can be artificially increased. La Haye proves her right...up to a point, that is. Extremely popular in Canada, Dans le Ventre du Dragon has yet to receive proper distribution in the States.
In uncertain times, a small group of creature gets together for sharing a feast.
In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air.
20-year-old Margaux makes the acquaintance of 45-year-old Margaux: they have a lot in common – so much so that it turns out they are one and the same person, at two different ages and stages of their life…
Basil Hallward is a mediocre painter. His exhibitions owe their success to his social position and nothing more. But one day Basil meets Dorian Gray, symbol of youth and a certain beauty.
In the seventeenth century, Catherine Lapeyre was wrongly accused of being a witch according to the register of the bishopric of Agen France. She was juged and found guilty by a College of Ecclesiastic and beaten to death. Catherine Lapeyre raised from the dead. She is lost in the space-time without knowing how she came back to Earth, a wasteland. She walks and walks through the country and just finds ruins, but never find any human beings. She wanders and feels terribly alone.
To sleep forever is what Rémi dreams of. An insomniac for the past eight years, his life has become an unbearable nightmare. By booking a room in the highly sought-after Judith Hotel, he's offering himself the chance to start anew.
André de Santis, a young French officer, leaves for the war in despair for the cancelling of his marriage to Jeanne de Chazal. Jeanne entered the convent and became Sister Angélique. André, not far from the convent, was mortally wounded. He wrote to Jeanne asking her to come and receive his last breath. But the rule was strict, and Sister Angélique could not leave the convent. However, the statue of the Virgin before which Jeanne was prostrating came to life, descended from its pedestal, and took on the appearance of Sister Angélique, seemingly granting her the permission she had refused. Jeanne then went to close her ex-fiancé's eyes and then returned to the convent, where the Virgin resumed her original form.
In a secluded castle, Margaret, a highly sensitive young girl, lives peacefully with her mother, Helen. On the evening of her twentieth birthday, Helen invites Margaret's grandmother, Agatha, for dinner. As the sun sets and the young girl lies on a tablecloth in the garden, a phrase written in an open notebook beside her, once whispered by her grandmother, suddenly catches her attention: "It's Time to Grow Up".
Cruel Santa Claus, when you come down from the sky with guns by the thousands, I beg you to spare me. If Santa Claus really existed, if he lived in some hidden place in the city in the company of those who still believe in him, and if he was seeking revenge, waiting for his revenge on those who distorted his name and image for money purposes!
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is really just as much the story of Gabriel John Utterson, a lawyer and good friend of Dr. Henry Jekyll. More importantly, Utterson is a Victorian Gentleman, who is guided by a chivalry-like code to remain loyal to his friends and maintain his status in society. It is loyalty that drives Utterson to play detective in an effort to protect Jekyll from the malicious and scheming Mr. Hyde. Eventually, Utterson finds himself introduced to a world that he is neither ready to enter nor accept. The story takes place in Victorian-era England, after the Industrial Revolution. Utterson, a lawyer, and true Victorian Gentleman, discovers that his long-time friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, has become involved with a mysterious and dangerous man named Edward Hyde. Jekyll is a tall, handsome man with a very high social status, which he is expected to maintain. Hyde is a complete opposite, short and vulgar, with an unidentifiable deformity.
Everyday, Alexander’s reflection goes the extra mile to imitate his owner without being spotted. But, one day, an event in Alexander’s life is about to change everything...
Bastien and his two friends enter the forbidden zone. Among the ruins and the toxic fog, something lies in wait.
A little girl sees her anxieties manifesting themselves during her sleep.
Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?
This early silent era film was released in France circa 1908 by Segundo de Chomón. It is partially hand coloured and shows several Japanese characters and eventually a worm change into a butterfly which while flapping it's wings changes colours as it flies.
One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Julien is in love with Marinette, a pretty waitress, but he is too shy to make any romantic overtures. Eric decides to give the course of true love a helping hand by pretending to be Julien. Meanwhile, Eric’s fabulously wealthy uncle has sent his minions out to bring him back home, so that he may celebrate Christmas in the bosom of his family.
The film traces the destiny of Kapila, an outcast child who had been deemed by his fellow villagers to have supernatural powers of destruction, because of the timing of his solar eclipse birth.
In the middle of a desert, soldiers are protecting a marvelous pearl, but a huge creature is going to steal it.
Athanor (Nico) is searching for fire. A flame is always at the foreground. Nico naked in tombs, looking at herself in circular mirrors, Nico in castles, keeper of the fire. Nico and Musky as medieval princesses. Athanor is a film about fire.
A short film about three women experimenting with the paranormal.
Eugène is dependent on software capable of generating a continuous flow of dreams and that's what we're looking for, right?
Fiction based on texts by Baudelaire, Sade, Lovecraft and Lautréamont.
On a winter evening, a poor peasant woman waited for her husband, who had gone to gather firewood in the forest. He finally arrived. The man and woman returned to their gloomy home, devoid of the joyful cries of a child. This was their great sorrow and their greatest longing. A fairy, having heard their wishes, appeared to them in the guise of an old beggar woman and asked for alms. Having tested their kind hearts, she transformed the scene into a bright and sunny landscape. She summoned flowers, which gathered in her hand into a pretty bouquet. She offered it to them and then vanished. But, to their surprise, the flowers transformed into two beautiful children who brought joy and happiness with them. —Pathé catalogue supplement, August, 1906.