After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

Likely in June 1897, a group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

Filmen handler om den dæmoniske teltholder Dr. Caligari, der fremviser søvngængeren Cesare på markedspladser, og om, hvordan det afsløres, at han får Cesare til at myrde for sig. Dr. Caligari blev det igangsættende hovedværk i den tyske filmekspressionisme med sit tyran-tema og sine malede kulisser, grotesk forvrængede scenerier og stærkt stiliserede spil.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

Denne storfilm om den amerikanske borgerkrig raffinerede og revolutionerede filmkunsten: Her krydsklippes mellem op til fire handlingstråde, arbejdes med crescendo-klipning og dramatisk klimaks. D.W. Griffith fik for filmen prædikatet ’Hollywood-filmens fader’ – for en heroisk besyngelse af Ku Klux Klan, komplet med en vakkelvorn teori om kostumernes udspring!

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies of it online are actually the 1900 remake.

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.

En gruppe franske soldater med forskellig baggrund havner under 1. verdenskrig som tysk bevogtede krigsfanger. Selvom de blive behandlet relativt pænt, emmer ønsket om flugt og frihed. I ventetiden kan de ligeså godt forsøge at få det bedste ud af det, og humøret holdes højt med gags, vaudevilles og glimt i øjet.

Den unge studerende og maratonløber Thomas "Babe" Levy havner midt i en international sammensværgelse, da hans bror, CIA-agenten Doc, bliver myrdet af den efterlyste nazi-forbryder Szell.

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother.

An European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea (Stefano Accorsi), who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.

Gøg og Gokke som flyttemænd følger parrets kluntede forsøg på at få bugseret et klaver op til et hus, der ligger forenden ad en lang trappe. Laurel og Hardys mesterværk er blevet stående som et højdepunkt i deres karriere.

A mob's punishment of a lone man proves cruel and unusual.

Criterion præsenterer her en samfundsrevsende Hollywood-tåreperser med Jane Wyman som den frustrerede, rige enke og Rock Hudson som den lækre gartner, der elsker hende. Det er Douglas Sirks rørende, men også anklagende beskrivelse af 1950'ernes provinsielle Amerika. Med mange filmiske virkemidler viser han det kvindelige familieoverhoveds ensomhed og isolation, fanget som hun er af sine børns snobberi og country club-vennernes sladder.