A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...

The death of the minotavr talks about the concept of the heroine's journey. Suffering, horror and ex...

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they t...

Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industri...

An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to ...

Henri Le Rocque's arrival in an island village causes much anger when he insists upon advanced renta...

An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wi...

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by ...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristo...

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. I...

A man with an umbrella emerges from his grave to be momentarily reunited with his lost loved one.

A hobo takes revenge to a miller who didn't give him something to eat.

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...

Mairy, a thirty-year-old woman from Philippines, works in a village in Cyprus. She takes care of Mr....

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's re...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...