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Das Opfer der Iris

January 1919 •German

German silent film

Within

Invalid date •English

This psychedelic horror short inspired by vintage cinema follows a raped girl's descent into derangement and makes the audience feel as claustrophobic as the character.

The Skipping Cheese

March 1907 •French

The interior of a trolley car. A menagerie of passengers notices a foul odour, and pinpoint the source of the stench at a cheese saleswoman. The gendarmerie removes her from the trolley and drags her to the precinct.

The Killer of Fossil Gulch

December 1970 •English

In the shadow of Dinosaur Cliff lies Fossil Gulch and Ghost Ranch. Will someone on the ranch be an innocent victim?

Taxi 13

November 1928 •English

A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.

La cassette de l'émigrée

May 1912 •French

Isabelle aux Dombes

January 1951 •French

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.

Arrest in Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal.

September 1897 •English

The title tells us where we are; the vignette is in two parts, spliced together. On a busy sidewalk, a police officer holds the left arm and a suited man holds the other of a Chinese wearing a loose white shirt and hat - marching the man up the slight incline past the camera.

Die Fürstin Woronzoff

October 1920 •German

The Policemen's Little Run

January 1907 •French

A policeman spots a dog stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and gives chase. Soon several more policemen have joined the pursuit. But the chase does not turn out as the policemen expect.

The Lonely Villa

June 1909 •English

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

The Girl and Her Trust

March 1912 •English

A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits.

The Empire of Diamonds

December 1920 •English

Shot on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera with both American and French actors. When Matthew Versigny discovers that the jewels his diamond company has been buying are fake, he travels to Europe to track down the counterfeiter. With him are his sister, Marguerite and her sweetheart, Paul Bernac, who is an agent in the French Secret Service.

Come and Swallow

November 2023 •English

Come and Swallow is the newest film in the big swallow universe. Being a piss take on the original “The Big Swallow (1901)” and “Come and See (1985)”. When the young boy (Josh Killoh) has his village burned down and destroyed by an army of troops, a few soldiers (Angus Rhind, Finlay Doney and Quillan Hepburn) pose to take a photo with the boy. As the camera man (Finlay Esslemont) prepares to take the photo, the boy suddenly decides that he has had enough of this tyranny and swallows all the soldiers.

The Uneasy Three

November 1925 •English

Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) has Charley Chase playing the mastermind of a dimwitted trio of thieves who plan on stealing a priceless jewel.

Gewalt gegen Recht

January 1920 •German

A minister founds a fraud company, but a lawyer smells a rat.

Parisian Love

August 1925 •English

Armand and Marie survive in the streets until charitable (and wealthy) scientist Pierre Marcel takes Armand in after a botched robbery. Marie, a fiery Apache, swears revenge on Marcel for taking her lover away from her.

The Man With The White Mask

May 2023 •Greek

Blake of Scotland Yard

August 1927 •English

Prequel to The Ace of Scotland Yard. This serial is presumed lost.

The Carter Case

March 1919 •English

Science fiction serial.