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The Miser
A fragment of a Georges Méliès film, THE MISER starts in a counting house where the titular miser is adding up his money and refusing those variously wretched souls who come to him for help. His cash goes missing in the lost middle part of the film and we resume with him groveling in the village on the point of suicide over...Start your free trial to watch
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The Monkey Race
THE MONKEY RACE, Italian-made, is typical of hundreds of chase films produced in America, France and Italy between about 1904 and 1910, mostly for fairgrounds and vaudeville. They greatly influenced Mack Sennett's Keystone and other comedies until Charlie Chaplin asked "must every film end with a chase?" Ringling Bros. circus...Start your free trial to watch -
Montmartre's Kids
MONTMARTRE'S KIDS, from 1916, was filmed on the Parisian hill, which with its height, light, and cheap rents, was home to such artists as Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Braque and Picasso. Another figure of the period, Francis Poulbot, created the archetypal street urchin in his drawings of Montmartre kids. His...Start your free trial to watch
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Mort à Vignole
A tragic family death combined with a haunted fascination for old 8mm home movies provokes Belgian cineaste Olivier Smolders' exquisite, deeply felt exploration of the cinematic image. From a patchwork of disparate times and places (including the filmmaker's childhood in the then-Belgian Congo and his own 8mm recording of a...Start your free trial to watch -
Mother of Mine
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. MOTHER OF MINE, the latest from the award-winning Klaus Haro, tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of nine year old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet...Start your free trial to watch -
Moulin Rouge
Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald André Dupont took almost a year to make MOULIN ROUGE at a production cost of $500,000, a huge amount for 1928. This film...Start your free trial to watch
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La moustache
Emmanuel Carrère's psychological mystery LA MOUSTACHE stars Vincent Lindon in an outstanding performance as a man who inadvertently loses himself. Marc Thiriez is a successful architect who decides one day to shave off the trademark mustache that he's worn for years. When his wife and his friends fail to notice the change he...Start your free trial to watch
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The Murderous Corpse
With his mentor Inspector Juve missing, journalist Jérôme Fandor (Georges Melchior) assumes the difficult task of pursuing the infamous Fantômas (René Navarre), a frightfully brilliant villain who excels in deception, larceny and murder. In this third film of the classic silent film series, Fantômas uses a...Start your free trial to watch -
My Way
MY WAY is a searing emotional crime drama set in Barcelona. Marc is a small-time hustler on the run from the mob after a drug deal goes awry. He is also simultaneously navigating strained relationships with his wife, his disaffected daughter and his estranged father, whose affliction with Alzheimers hampers his ability to...Start your free trial to watch -
The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador
Léonce Perret made a number of self-referential films in which the medium of cinema is a component of the plotline. In THE MYSTERY OF THE ROCKS OF KADOR, an amnesiac woman undergoes a sort of cinematic hypnosis as a means of recalling the details of a tragic crime.Start your free trial to watch
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Naked Fury
A gang of thieves led by American Eddy (Reed de Rouen) kill a security guard during a botched safe robbery and flee with his daughter (Leigh Madison) as a hostage. They hide out in a dangerously unstable old warehouse for a couple of days awaiting their getaway ship to sail, but Johnny (Kenneth Cope) falls for the girl,...Start your free trial to watch -
Ne change rien
One of the most important figures in contemporary cinema, Pedro Costa's celebrated music documentary is a mesmerizing portrait of French actress-turned-singer Jeanne Balibar, a transfixing, cigarette-smoking chanteuse with an intense devotion to her craft. Photographed in shimmering black-and-white and featuring a soundtrack...Start your free trial to watch -
Nel regno di Napoli
The New German Cinema figurehead least likely to risk commercial success (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog and even Hans-Jürgen Syberberg granted themselves easier access for most international audiences), Werner Schroeter was nonetheless an influential and important figure, surviving...Start your free trial to watch




