Lumiere Movies

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents...

A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.

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...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as...

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...

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In...

Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a...

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Three people playing cards.

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

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

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

Five black and white minstrels dancing and playing musical instruments in Rupert Street, London.

A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lunch, while Mum is serving tea.

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

The first travelling shot.

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.