The Siren

The Siren

La Glu tells the story of a woman, separated from her husband, and of evil reputation, who at a summer resort tries to capture the fortune of a...

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Germinal

Germinal

Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.

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The Tragic Mill

The Tragic Mill

Propaganda spy-movie, Belgian-French production, directed by Honoré and Georges Lainé. A village girl repels the advances of the miller's son, who...

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Max Speaks English

Max Speaks English

"Scene, a first-class railway carriage. Max and delightful girl alone. "May I smoke?" breaks the ice, and then Max brings all the arts of...

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Gribiche

Gribiche

Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels...

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Les batailles de la vie - Épisode 3: Le testament

Les batailles de la vie - Épisode 3: Le testament

Grandmother Hall, aged fast falling in health, is greatly comforted by her only two grandchildren, daughters of her own daughter long since past...

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In the Land of Darkness

In the Land of Darkness

In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair's new series of social...

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L'enfant prodigue

L'enfant prodigue

Cécile Guyon is young Pierrot. He has fallen in love with the laundress, pretty Jane Renouardt. However, she wants more than a lover whose poor...

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In the Limelight

In the Limelight

Short melodrama. Two former lovers meet twenty years later when the man has to compete with the son of the woman.

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Pour le pays

Pour le pays

Short World War I film.

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Le passeur de l'Yser

Le passeur de l'Yser

Gevaërt and his daughter Marie show the latter's fiancé, Sergeant Tressignies, the system that opens or closes the swing bridge connecting the...

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