Aux frontières du Méliès

147 movies  

Aux Frontières du Méliès est un cycle qui met en avant le cinéma qui ne va pas (toujours) au cinéma, en proposant des œuvres inédites en salle ou peu visibles, qui évoluent à la lisière des genres. Que ce soient des pépites passées trop inaperçues chinées en festival ou des films oubliés, nous proposons une programmation qui tente de sortir des sentiers battus.

Movie

Chappie (2015)
Chappie
★ 6.9 393 ratings
other title: 채피 / チャッピー …
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

Movie

DOOR (1988)
DOOR
★ 6.2 6 ratings
other title: 门 / Door …
Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.

Movie

The Childe (2023)
귀공자 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 6.1 12 ratings
other title: 贵公子 / 귀공자 …
Han, a Filipino-Korean boxer hits the final punch against his opponent at an illegal game and returns home with a few dollars to pay for his mother's surgery.

Movie

Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980)
第一類型危險 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.9 68 ratings
徐克 actor: 罗烈 / 林珍奇 …
other title: 제일유형위험 / 第一類型危險 …
Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.

Movie

The Hitcher (1986)
The Hitcher WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 6.8 15 ratings
罗伯特·哈蒙 actor: 鲁特格尔·哈尔 / C·托马斯·豪威尔 …
other title: 搭车人 / 幽靈終結者 …
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation will help him not to fall asleep. He will have enough time to deeply regret such an unmeditated decision.

Movie

You'll Never Find Me (2023)
You'll Never Find Me WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
乔赛亚·艾伦 / 英蒂娜·贝尔 actor: 布伦丹·罗克 / 乔丹·科万 …
other title: 迷离无迹 / 네버 파인드 미 …
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave. Soon she begins to question Patrick’s intentions, while Patrick begins to question his own grip on reality...

Movie

Smile 2 (2024)
Smile 2
★ 6.9 107 ratings
other title: 微笑2(台) / 魅笑2(港) …
About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.

Movie

Night Call (2024)
La nuit se traîne
other title: La nuit se traîne / 夜间呼叫 …
The story is carried by Mady, student by day, locksmith by night. But Claire, the enigmatic young woman she is helping out one night, isn’t what she seems to be. This door isn’t that of her apartment. And the bag she wants to recover at all costs isn’t hers, but Yannick’s, a man whose questions Mady will have to answer to. Caught in a hellish race, Mady only has one night to prove her innocence in a bustling city. One night to save her own skin.

Movie

Cronos (1993)
Cronos WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 6.7 42 ratings
other title: 魔鬼银爪 / 크로노스 …
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
Jan. 3, 2025