
31 Dec 1917

The Beast in Man
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The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Marc Antony, a Triumvir and General

Iras, Attendant to the Queen
Charmian, Attendant to the Queen
Kephren, Captain of the Guards to the Queen
Octavia - Wife of Antony

Nicola - a Child

31 Dec 1917

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01 Jan 1912
Found recently and restored in 2019 this short silent film tells the story of an artist and his model. One day she's getting seriously ill ... .
12 Jun 1913
Found recently and restored in 2019, this silent short films follows a young man who is wounded and hides with his girlfriend... .

30 Nov 1904

During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.

04 Sep 1916

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

16 Aug 1916

With Jean-Baptiste at the front, Louise takes care of Bébé with the help of Uncle Pierre. The letters she receives from Jean-Baptiste worry her, but Pierre distracts Bébé with a box of tin soldiers. That night, Bébé has a dream of his soldiers vanquishing the enemy, and the next morning, Jean-Baptiste surprises the family by returning home.
01 Jan 1911
The dedication of a young boy

10 Oct 2006

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.
02 Jan 1925
Lost film directed by Tito Strozzi.

04 Dec 2002

In this animated retelling of the story from the Bible's Book of Genesis, Joseph's gift of dream interpretation and his brilliantly colored coat inspires jealousy in his brothers.

19 Sep 1912

Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned the other woman simply because of her profession, an actress. While out on a shopping tour, the wife and her husband enter a store, leaving their little child in the auto in the care of the chauffeur. This gentleman pays but scant attention to the child, so the little one wanders off and strolls into the stage door of a theater during the matinee. The parents upon their return to the auto discover the child's absence and trace him to the theater stage, where they find him in the arms of one of the show girls. The mother matches the child from the girl's arms, scornfully exclaiming, "How dare you contaminate my child with your touch?" For this remark, together with the derisive laughter it occasions, the girl vows to be avenged.

14 Oct 1912

A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of two trappers, Bob Cole and Jim Watson, who hunt in the neighborhood. As fate will have it, both trappers love the same girl, the elder sister, but she loves Bob, while the younger girl is attracted by Jim. The elder girl, however, through a woman's whim, pays marked attention to Jim simply to arouse jealousy in Bob. He, in temper, cannot reason her motive and leaves, so through pique she accepts and marries Jim. Later Bob revisits the place, feeling that the girl loves him best, and tries to induce her to go away with him. He finally succeeds and, as you may imagine, fate brings about justice.

11 Nov 1912

As the husband leaves for the lumber regions, his wife gives him a memory message to be opened after his arrival. Attracted by a maid, cherished by the love of two old brothers, he forgets it until sometime later. The message serves its purpose, however, for through it, after a thrilling experience, the maid learns the true value of the man's love, while he in his turn, goes back to his waiting wife and finds there, along with his shame and regeneration, his heart's desire.

23 Dec 1912

Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.
19 Apr 1913
Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisters made fun of her and his love. That made trouble and the chief vigilante believed him the cause of it all. So he was "in wrong" all around. The girl's father also sided with the opinion of the world, and sent both the boy and girl away. Mother was on a visit at the time, and therein the need of such a one at home was proved, for once back she sent the father out to bring them home again. The boy in the gold hills had been misunderstood again. Marauding merchants had left their victim on the mountain pass and the boy, coming on the scene, was again accused, but the lie in the end destroyed itself.

01 Aug 2006

19 remastered French short films from the 20's. After the horrors of the First World War, a sultry madness takes hold of the French society that no authority can stop. The clandestine cinema is commercialized at the back of specialized booksellers and whorehouses for very delighted customers, through short films. Costumed as priests and nuns, ballet dancers, satyrs, sparrow, apes, telegraph operator, in monk or in bellboy, never mind, everything is a pretext to describe love affairs which crudeness and humor have nothing to envy to the contemporary erotic cinema.

11 Nov 1939

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

26 Dec 1935

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

13 Jan 1918

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01 Jan 2017

A young woman is the embodiment of an abandoned cinema, watching and being watched all along.