An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx. The prince promises him…

An elegantly dressed man enters through a stage door onto a set with decorated back screen, a chair and small table. He brings a well-dressed women…

Innocence gives way to experience. Two girls and two boys, probably about 14 or 15 years old, play a game of truth or dare. The questions…

A fisherman becomes entangled in his line when he catches something unexpected.

In an office processing pension applications, people wait. Clerks give instructions and explanations, finding fault with each document presented. People smoke, standing in line with papers…

A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking…

A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village…

One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin…

After dating for three months, Charlotte breaks up with her boyfriend Jules, a writer, for another man, a filmmaker who Jules believes is only a means…

After a look at some strange creatures, the narrator and camera take us to the Chaco forest, on the borders of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, where…

When one boy tears another boy's book, it is up to the two of them to decide how to handle it.

Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.

A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men's lavatory in the basement of a public…

A stationary camera looks at a large anvil with a blacksmith behind it and one on either side. The smith in the middle draws a heated…

A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor. The story is…

This George Méliès' extraordinary fairy-tale film adaptation of author Charles Perrault's "Cendrillon", is considered to be the first film to use a dissolve transition in-between scenes.…

With a brand-new deck of playing cards in his hand, an elegantly-attired thaumaturge enters a lavishly decorated stage and places an enormous blank card atop a…

Concerns a scientist's flight into outer space.

On a large wooden billboard crammed with colourful posters of all sorts, a vacant empty space is reserved in the middle. Before long, a worker plasters…

One-minute short film, used as a trailer for the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale).

A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in her apartment.

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…

In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken,…

One of the first feminist movies, The Smiling Madame Beudet is the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage. Her husband is used…