La vie ionnée de vincent van gogh

If you’re already familiar with Louis Feuillade, his little-known opus Vendémiaire may come as a surprise. Unlike the bulk of his work which was characterised as ‘Fantastic Realism’, Vendémiaire is wonder…

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then picks up as the painter goes haywire and sends the assi…

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

Through exclusive interviews with his sisters and art world luminaries, this documentary traces Jean-Michel Basquiat's meteoric rise from Brooklyn street artist to international art sensation. Confronting…

Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she die…

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 …

At the height of his fame as Amsterdam's most celebrated painter, Rembrandt van Rijn's world crumbles when his beloved wife Saskia dies unexpectedly, triggering a dramatic shift in his art toward darker, …

When Troy has fallen and Ulysses sets sail for home, his ships are driven to different lands, where his adventures are numerous, keeping him away from his native land for ten years. As time rolls on witho…

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their advertising the Corricks described the detailed, hand-coloured p…

The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period

Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hospital for sick animals.

The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.

The story of the life and ion of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of his birth to his ascension into heaven.

Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing wh…

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like engers.

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie. One day widower John Wool…

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist.…