Release Date: 1896-12-24

Overview: In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.

Rating: 6.4 (196 votes)

Release Date: 1895-06-12

Overview: Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

Rating: 5.3 (94 votes)

Release Date: 1895-06-10

Overview: A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot from the hose, whereby the water squirts up in the gardener's face. The gardener chases the boy, grips his ear and slaps him in his buttocks. The boy then runs away and the gardener continues his watering. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the original, filmed by Louis Lumière.

Rating: 6.817 (259 votes)

Release Date: 1896-10-25

Overview: The first travelling shot.

Rating: 5.94 (42 votes)

Release Date: 1896-12-25

Overview: A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Rating: 6.023 (107 votes)

Release Date: 1991-01-01

Overview: With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens, each held by a hand. The calligrapher moves all the hands and pens in unison, drawing an elaborate feathered wing, which comes to live, peeling off the page, and, now a quill pen, slips in to his hand. He tucks it behind his left ear.

Rating: 6.4 (11 votes)

Release Date: 1896-02-20

Overview: Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

Rating: 5.627 (63 votes)

Release Date: 1900-01-01

Overview: A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

Rating: 5.474 (19 votes)

Release Date: 1898-01-02

Overview: Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

Rating: 4.5 (8 votes)

Release Date: 1897-01-01

Overview:

Rating: 4.4 (5 votes)

Release Date: 1896-01-25

Overview: Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.

Rating: 4.9 (10 votes)

Release Date: 1896-03-23

Overview: A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

Rating: 5.8 (32 votes)

Release Date: 1999-12-17

Overview: Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

Rating: 7.262 (3708 votes)

Release Date: 2013-06-19

Overview: Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

Rating: 6.822 (15806 votes)

Release Date: 1979-05-25

Overview: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Rating: 8.165 (15423 votes)

Release Date: 1964-09-04

Overview: In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Rating: 7.4 (473 votes)

Release Date: 2016-04-06

Overview: Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.

Rating: 6.509 (324 votes)

Release Date: 1994-11-18

Overview: Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.

Rating: 6.505 (1385 votes)

Release Date: 2002-09-13

Overview: Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

Rating: 6.6 (321 votes)

Release Date: 2015-09-18

Overview: The bonds between Naomi and Ely are tested when they fall for the same guy.

Rating: 5.9 (1070 votes)