An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.

A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.

A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic.

Ballet Mécanique (1923-4) is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by artist Fernand Léger and filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man Ray). It has a musical score by the American composer George Antheil (However, the film premiered with no soundtrack, on September 24th, 1924 at the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik in Vienna). It is considered one of the masterpieces of early experimental filmmaking.

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

A train arrives at La Ciotat station.

Drawings by the children of the Terezín ghetto, who were later executed by the Nazis.

Abstract animated short film. Grey and white squares change size and shape on a black background.

An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.

Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.

A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout for Mr. Charlie, the boss of a white slave trade gang. His first assignment consists in seducing Michèle, a Montmartre nightclub singer and hostess, into signing a contract for Tangier. The young woman, however, who does this job only to support her young sister Danièle, falls for him and he for her. From then on Mario, without betraying himself, does his utmost to save Michèle -and Danièle for that matter - from the clutches of the gang...

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked, he leaves his hometown and goes to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he is now free from all ties to his old life, decides to start a new one.

A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two of the others. The two survivors, a husband and wife, subdue the killer but are then faced with an agonizing dilemma. With no chance of turning him over to the authorities for many weeks, they must decide whether to exact justice themselves or to risk trying to keep him restrained until they can return to civilization.

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.

Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by a circuitous route, arrives in Saint Petersburg, where he will be involved in the many plots that threaten the throne of Czar Peter III…

Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.

A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.

A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.

A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.

After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.

Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.

A soldier returns to Kiyv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.

100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

A study on water, the reflections and motions of the liquid that accentuates its ethereality and metallic beauty.

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios. This film is the first part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University.

A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.

When a liberal idea emerges in a tyranny ruled society, power and wealth unite to bring it down.

Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman. She leaves him and one day, she meets a young man and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.

A surrealistic documentary portrait of the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.

Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.

Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.

Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.

In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.

Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Europe.

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.

The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.

The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.

A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

An experimental animated short in which images are drawn directly onto the film using a pen.

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.

The Legend of the Luftwaffe began in Poland, the first victim of Hitler's blitzkrieg. Combat cameramen filmed the aerial campaign, showing preparations for flight, massive air strikes, and the appalling devastation wreaked upon Polish towns and armies. Highlighted by a lengthy, riveting sequence depicting the siege of Warsaw, Feuertaufe inspired Germany with pride and confidence and foreign viewers with dread. Norbert Schultze's original score lyrically enhances this propaganda masterpiece.

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.

During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.

Two cats have a litter of 5 kittens and then nurse, teach and play with them.

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.

A man seeks to find himself by exploring his sexuality.

An art documentary which captures images of portraits made by the painter Paul Delvaux.

A documentary produced by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) documenting their struggle against big corporations in the post World War II era.

A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.

A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.

In the first episode, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In the second, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph.

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.

Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.

Bucolic scenes from the outskirts of Paris are contrasted with stark footage from slaughterhouses.

A short experimental film by Sidney Peterson using double overlapping lenses to tell the story of a woman and a deep sea diver.

A short film which documents a competition between men for the love of the same woman.

A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro.

A group of juvenile delinquents lives a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Vignettes revolving around a circle of interconnected love.

Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.

An experimental animated short film by Jørgen Roos and surrealist painter Wilhelm Freddie.

A short film which explores various paintings from mental patients.

A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.

A young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.

A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.

An experimental short in which underwater film and live-action above water film are combined.

A short film comprised of twelve scenes derived from group of drawings.

Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.

People quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.

Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.

Documentary on a famous amusement park, showing the irony of its manufactured fun.

Lord Shiva wakes. A convocation of magicians in the guise of figures from mythology; a masquerade party at which Pan is the prize. The wine of Hecate is poured: Pan's cup is poisoned by Shiva. Kali blesses the assembly as a bacchic rite ensues.

The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.

The delirious journey of a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime.

In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.