Lumiere Movies

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

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...

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

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

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...

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...

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

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

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.

The film shows the day when Rui and Vani first met. It was at their wedding (with other partners). Vani was going to marry Sérgio, and Rui...

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

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

The first travelling shot.

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

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.