All Recommendations

The Man with the Rubber Head
7.2

The Man with the Rubber Head

1901

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

The X-Ray Fiend
5.5

The X-Ray Fiend

1897

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.

The Kiss
5.2

The Kiss

1896

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

A Nightmare
6.0

A Nightmare

1896

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

The Haunted House
6.5

The Haunted House

1921

A bank teller who becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

Playing Cards
4.8

Playing Cards

1896

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.

The Brahmin and the Butterfly
5.5

The Brahmin and the Butterfly

1901

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

The Melomaniac
6.7

The Melomaniac

1903

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

A Single Life
7.0

A Single Life

2014

When Pia plays a mysterious vinyl record single, she suddenly knows how to travel through her own life.

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
6.1

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

1907

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 old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.

The Conjurer
6.3

The Conjurer

1899

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

Newark Athlete
4.4

Newark Athlete

1891

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja
7.0

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja

2009

Set in the backdrop of the seventeenth century, the royal family of Kottayam is ruled by Pazhassi. The British government begins to impose heavy taxes on the locals in the Thalassery region of Kerala.

Simple Creature
5.9

Simple Creature

2016

An obliviously modern college student gets into a near-fatal bus accident, but is reborn through hybrid technology by her biotech father and his advanced lab.

The Chair
5.0

The Chair

2012

One boy's reaction to a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold in his small, rural town.

So Near, Yet So Far
5.9

So Near, Yet So Far

1912

It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love. Unknowingly, the Boy and the young woman of his fancy both stay at the home of mutual friends-- But all is not well, as robbers lurk outside the house.

Max 2: White House Hero
7.0

Max 2: White House Hero

2017

Max is assigned to the White House while Butch, the secret service dog, is on maternity leave. He meets TJ, a 12 year old boy, who is the President's son. Due to his father's high profile, he is trying hard to fit in and lead a normal life. During a state visit by the Russian President and his daughter, Alexandra (Alex), TJ is asked to accompany her, during their stay. TJ befriends Alex, but when they get into trouble, Max comes to the rescue!

The Astronomer's Dream
6.9

The Astronomer's Dream

1898

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Josep
7.5

Josep

2020

February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.

Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
5.4

Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland

1989

Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and lower-class teens. On the day the youths are boarding the buses to camp, Angela runs over a potential camper with a garbage truck and assumes her identity. Once she has infiltrated the camp, the real terror begins.