1. Shadow Thieves
The film follows five professional photographers in Los Angeles, Latin America, Paris, Berlin and Switzerland in their daily struggle to come by. It shows how digitalization and the internet affects and transforms their work deeply. It talks about the world as much as about the image of that world. It talks about pictures and their meaning and what they trigger in those who watch them.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
2. The Underground Orchestra (Het ondergrondse orkest)
A moving documentary. The life stories told by immigrants in Paris are often saddening. The hardships they went through and their current uncertainty and difficult situation. No residence permit, fear of the gendarmerie, little money, poor housing. The quality and background of the musicians is many times amazing.
3. The First World War
Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Stallings, this expanded newsreel, using stock-and-archive footage, tells the story of World War I from inception to conclusion. Alternating with scenes of trench warfare and intimate glimpses of European royalty at home, and scenes of conflict at sea combined with sequences of films from the secret archives of many of the involved nations.
4. Marseille Story, une histoire de la violence (Marseille Story, une histoire de la violence)
(Marseille Story, une histoire de la violence)
5. Rose Palace
The story of Le Palace, the famous parisian night club in the late seventies. The documentary is a conversation between ex-clients, founders and workers of the place. Owned by Fabrice Emaer, this nightclub became in 1978 the center of the french social life.
6. Tosca's Kiss (Il bacio di Tosca)
Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. This documentary, which has achieved cult-like status among opera and music lovers, features former singers who reminisce about their careers and their past operatic roles.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
7. Panorama des rives de la Seine à Paris, III (Panorama des rives de la Seine à Paris, III)
Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.
It has an average vote of 4.8 on TMDB.
8. Jim Morrison: The End (Jim Morrison : derniers jours à Paris)
Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson. The chronicle of the last months of the life of the poet, singer and charismatic leader of the American band The Doors, one of the most influential in the history of rock.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. Chronique paysanne en Gruyère (Chronique paysanne en Gruyère)
The shooting of this peasant chronicle in the Gruyère region of Switzerland lasted a whole year, from July 1989 to July 1990.
10. Video Visits: In Love with Paris
Journey to Paris, the City of Light. Marvel at the panorama from the top of the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. Walk down the Champs-Élysées from l'Etoile to Place de la Concorde. Go inside Maxim's and Tour d'Argent to experience an elegant French meal, then pause at Dux magots for a cafe au lait. Stroll along the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore and window shop at Dior and Lanvin. Enter the Louvre to view Winged VIctory, Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa. Glide down the Seine on a bateau mouche, past Notre Dame and the Ile St. Louis. Zoom through traffic in a Parisian taxi and ride the Metro. Climb to Montmartre, Sacre Coeur and Place du Tertre. Take a side trip to Versailles and be dazzled by the Hall of Mirrors.
11. Kick That Habit (Kick That Habit)
Kick That Habit is a 1989 film by PETER LIECHTI, an audio-visual portrait of his native country, eastern Switzerland. The film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning of our latter-day culture. Also native to eastern Switzerland is VOICE CRACK, the everyday household electronics duo of NORBERT MOSLANG and ANDY GUHL, whose musical workings are explored as part of Liechti s vision. Whether clicking quietly and rhythmically or humming and shrieking at ear-splitting volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture, the lost and destroyed remains of the last century of progress.
12. Armand Schulthess - J'ai le téléphone (Armand Schulthess - J'ai le téléphone)
(Armand Schulthess - J'ai le téléphone)
13. Rue Campagne-Première (Rue Campagne-Première)
Man Ray shoots from a window on 31 bis rue Campagne-Première, in the heart of Montparnasse, where he rented a ground-floor studio.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
14. La Doctrine (La Doctrine)
Narrator dreams of Madrid while being caught in a repetitive loop somewhere in Paris. He questions if his interlocutor is a real human being, as their dialogue, mostly built of citations, doesn't seem to be helping with breaking the loop.
15. Land of Alaska Nellie
In this Traveltalk series short, we view the Inside Passage to Alaska, the longest protected waterway in the world. Traveling north, we enter the small town of Seward, gateway to the interior. One of the burgeoning industries is the raising of silver fox and mink. There are many road houses scattered throughout Alaska, but one of the most famous is twenty-three miles outside of Seward on Lake Kenai belonging to Nellie Lawing, better known as Alaska Nellie, who has a long and storied history in Alaska.
16. Paris on Parade
This Traveltalks short showcases the Paris International Exposition of 1937. It features a tour of the pavillions of several nations, as well as the spectacular water and light displays.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. L'Adieu à Solférino (L'Adieu à Solférino)
(L'Adieu à Solférino)
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
18. Fenster zum Jenseits (Fenster zum Jenseits)
(Fenster zum Jenseits)
19. Feuer & Flamme
(Feuer & Flamme)
20. Four In Time (Four In Time)
(Four In Time)