Les temps modernes

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.

A physics teacher turns his small airplane into a time machine to help humanity, but when he sells the technology to a greedy corporation, he must race through time to prevent them from creating a dystopi…

A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.

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.

A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Federal Reserve bank.

This Cinderella is up to date. She and her sister Jane receive an invitation to a reception. Jane, selfish and arrogant, is carried away with her own vanity and anticipation of making a "hit" and being th…

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

A couple who have known each other all of their lives are shown together at different stages of life. First, as children, they play together affectionately. Soon afterwards, they are at school together, a…

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an …

A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.

Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal, with husband Clyde Cook staying home alone while wife Ka…

An intimate portrait reveals the revolutionary mind of Pierre Cardin, the visionary designer who transformed fashion from exclusive haute couture to global ready-to-wear empire. Through exclusive access t…

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching them from the nearby pier.

Panorama of Constantinople from the river.

Trois enfants découvrent un imperméable magique jaune dans le grenier de leur grand-mère qui les transporte dans le corps d'Augustus Semprini, un prestigieux magicien emprisonné par une malédiction depuis…