Forces of Nature

A month's vacation with the family can mean a lot, which is what Lily realizes when she returns home after several years living abroad. Her mother, a...

The estate Hjortholm is rescued from bankruptcy, as the pleasant doctor Christian Riis fetches the young engineer Erik Kongsted to the estate.

In the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English turns Manhattan into her personal language school.

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes.

Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.

A living statue causes trouble for unsuspecting bystanders.