The city wakes, and cameraman travels through to record it all…

A pair of Hong Kong lovers live out the waning days of their relationship as expatriates in Buenos Aires. Lusty tango bars, the salsa music of the La Boca sidewalks, and a hypnotic visit to the nearby Iguazu Falls give further dimension to the tensions growing between the two lovers.

In Stanley Donen’s deliciously dark comedic thriller, a trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American (Audrey Hepburn) through Paris to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them. The only person she can trust is a suave, mysterious stranger (Cary Grant).

For many, cinema began on December 28, 1895, with the first public projection of short films like Arrival of a Train and The Card Party by Louis and Auguste Lumière.

Made just 37 years after the novel’s publication and eight years after the birth of cinema, this ten-minute short is the first film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.

1984 is the American television commercial which introduced the Macintosh personal computer for the first time. It is now considered a “watershed event” and a “masterpiece.”

Arguably the first and certainly the most sophisticated cartoon until that time, Emile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie is a dream caught on celluloid.

An aristocratic wife commissions a young, cocky artist to sketch her husband’s property while he is away, in exchange for room, board, and one sexual favor per drawing. This arrangement soon spirals out of control, and the draughtsman finds him the prime suspect of a murder…

A brief cinematic magic show, directed by and starring the incomparable Georges Méliès.

A silent adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s famous novel in which Erik, a deformed musician living in the cellars of the Paris Opera House, causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star.

In 1919, Ko-Ko the Clown first emerged from the inkwell to grapple with his creator, Max Fleischer. Combining live action with animation, this highly imaginative series of 130 films inspired Walt Disney’s Alice comedies, among others.

A successful fashion photographer learns that he has a tumor that will soon kill him. Hiding his diagnosis, he alienates his family and his young boyfriend, but during a stay with his grandmother, his vulnerability is met with a big heart and sound advice.

A masterful film from Jia Zhang-ke, the renowned director of Still Life and The World, 24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned aeronautics factory in Chengdu, a city in Southwest China, and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex.

Bekir loves Ugur, who loves Zagor, who is about to get out of jail. An already tense love triangle is thrown into turmoil on a hot summer night, Zagor when kills someone, and Ugur disappears…

Ashes contemplates love, pleasure, and the destruction of memory. The surroundings of everyday life are shared with extreme intimacy. For Apichatpong, Thailand, while full of beauty, is slowly collapsing into darkness.

“Count” Karamzin, a Don Juan, lives off the money he scams from rich ladies, who are attracted by his charms and his title. Having set up shop in Monte Carlo, he and his partners in crime pick their next target: the wife of an American envoy.

In a desolate corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to her beloved grandson, a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost, with the enemy just beyond…

An early short by Lumiere and company, with the frames colored by hand.

Raj and Vivek cross paths on a New York subway train. As each longs for what the other takes for granted, they must confront the currents that bind, divide, and drive them.