Pialat's first film was the short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old. The film is an entirely silent montage of documentary footage, ragged experimental techniques — mainly some negative-image inserts — and symbolic psychodrama that's surprisingly not too different from the work that Stan Brakhage would begin making just a year or two later. Images of death proliferate throughout the film, and what started as a loose documentary soon becomes an eerie psuedo-horror piece that's obsessed with death and decay.
A man searches for his daughter after a bad argument, only to end up at an abandoned building surrou...
Ortensia is a mechanical ballerina, that every day is forced to dance for an audience, in a seemingl...
Emile returns home to his estranged grandmother Marley after graduating from college, only to find t...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...
This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as...
A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn ...
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Arielle's path changes forever when she befriends a young man whose fate rests on the outcome of his...
Experimental film, shot entirely using a pinhole lens. This is actually a piece of conceptual art, w...
After missing her bus, Emilia finds herself at the mercy of vampiric powers that seek to claim her s...
The day of the cremation of her grand mother, Emilie, a young mixed-race Asian girl, buries herself ...