A Turn of the Century Illusionist (1899) Georges Méliès
A magician and his assistant perform numerous magic acts including making a woman disappear.
Country: France
The Waterer Watered (1895) Alice Guy, Louis Lumière
An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener, innocently watering his plants.
Vampyr (1932) Carl Theodor Dreyer
Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and settles in a small inn. In the night, an old man enters Gray’s room to tell him “she must not die”. One of the old man’s daughters, Leone, has been bitten by a vampire. To break the curse, Gray and Gisele must find the vampire.
What Is Seen Through a Keyhole (1901) Ferdinand Zecca
As a janitor is cleaning a hotel, he decides to peek through the keyholes to observe some of the guests in their rooms. He can’t hide her confusion. There are some interesting things going on in the rooms.
Eldorado (1921) Marcel L’Herbier
Sibilla works as a dancer in El Dorado, a cabaret in Granada (Andalusia, Spain) trying to earn enough money to take care for her sick child.
Mother (1925) Jacques Feyder
A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man’s young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father’s new wife, not wanting her to take the place of his beloved mother, and makes life miserable for his new stepsister.
The Three-Sided Mirror (1927) Jean Epstein
A wealthy young businessman consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman, a Russian sculptress, and a naive working-class girl.
The Little Match Girl (1928) Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco
An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.
The Living Dead Man (1926) Marcel L’Herbier
A man escapes his dreary life when a corpse found in a creek is mistaken for his own.
Ménilmontant (1926) Dimitri Kirsanoff
A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.