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

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...

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

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

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...

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 silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

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...