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Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a...

A female fortuneteller examines the sole of a man's foot to see his future.

The stick man Fantoche is looking for a home, but there doesn't seem to be any room anywhere, not even in Hell.

Émile Cohl produced independently an animated series titled "Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés". There were four series of these...

A man dreams he loses his hat at sea, drowns and gets swallowed by a huge fish.

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female...

A visitor to an insane asylum realises that the inmates have taken control.

The story of "Jack" is well-known. It is a beautiful story of a natural child. His mother, Ida de Borancy, worships the dear little nameless and...

Adaptation of the Émile Gaboriau novel.

The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught...

A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and...

The Twins, regular bad men of the regiment, have been condemned to the military prison, and it goes much against the grain of the kind-hearted...

An old surgeon shows kindness to a tramp.

Silent Short

Early adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story

A work-obsessed inventor uses a video-telephone to spy on his girlfriend, who in turn uses film to teach him a lesson. (MoMA)

The cub journalist comes to the aid of a recently remarried woman, whose late criminal husband turns out to be still alive.

Hortense Fauvel, the wife of a village postmaster, takes Aimée, a young shepherdess, under her wing. Aimée soon becomes engaged to...

Macbeth is a French 1915 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. It was released on December 31, 1915, in France. It is a silent...