Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he...

A manuscript delivered to a playhouse is eventually turned into a major hit with critics and audience alike. The only problem is that no one knows...

Bébé's father is attacked by the "apaches", a group of hooligans. Bébé and his sister decide to avenge him by gaining the group's trust and...

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.

A mother (Renee Carl) goes to see a palm reader who informs her that a loved one is about to die. The woman doesn't know if it's her son or her...

A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.

LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the...

Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears. Of course, the child is miserable even though he has...

The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother.

Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as she...

A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.

Directed by Louis Feuillade.

In 1907, the Gaumont Films company in France made a slapstick comedy (silent, of course) with a title that would translate from the French as 'A...

Directed by Louis Feuillade.

A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.

A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.

The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.

After returning from the circus, Bout-de-Zan starts doing acrobatic tricks.

After the divorce of her parents, Colette gets sent to her grandfather's who she never really knows. Mrs. Lapierre, her new governess is very severe...

One night, Bout-de-Zan finds a wanderer and shares his bed to him. The next morning there is a general panic among the servants...

At the front, Bébé meets two Russian soldiers.

A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.

A beginning of a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade from 1911-1913

Directed by Louis Feuillade. Part of the 'Life As It Is' series.

A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless...

Madam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory. Fred, a servant who abuses her beasts, is sent away...

Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he does indeed steal an elephant from a circus, parading it...

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...

This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane...

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...

A police sergeant’s late night horn playing dismays neighbors in his apartment house, leading to marital discord, hysteria and a bizarre form of...

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath...

A short from Feuillade's Bébé series

If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A short silent film about war

At a dinner party, a hostess serves her guests a dish made using meat from a bull. While most of them enjoy the meal, one man has a strange reaction:...

A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.

This charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand filmed his cowboy movies. The plot is very simple. A...

Monique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love. A marriage is the only thing a decent girl must long for. When she discovers that...

On his way to visit his mistress, a man has a serious car accident. His wife cares for him with such devotion that he rediscovers his love for her.

Having faked an automobile accident, an adventuress is taken into the home of a "ganadero" (a landowner of the Camargue), whom she seduces. Her...

A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two scoundrels plot to rob her of the diamond before she...

Part of Feuillade's 'Life As It Is' series

When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed of the city's absent ruler, who must return in...

Some amateur players rehearse a crime play in the apartment of one of the company. Bout-de-Zan connects the telephone to the room of the concierge,...

Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own father.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est that Feuillade did in which people were shown as they really are and not as they ought to have been. This...

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and...

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.

The press and the public opinion suggest that Inspector Juve may in fact be Fantômas. As Juve is jailed, the actual Fantômas schemes to keep him...