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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...

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...

Drama in which the love between Claude and Germaine is tested when Claude is falsely accused and Germaine's father doesn't approve of their...

Silent mystery

The story of the children of Captain Grant.

No plot available. The director Maurice Tourneur perceived this film to be indicative of the advances French cinema could have taken had it not been...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

Funnicus is hunting, while at his home many of his friends await his return very impatiently. Suddenly he makes his appearance, his game-bag full, of...

Adaptation of the Émile Gaboriau novel.

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

Willy wasnt very proud when he arrived home, for once again he was at the bottom of his class. As punishment his parents informed him that he would...

"The Amblystoma: Curious Salamander From Mexico". Vintage French educational film from 1913 describing the Axolotl. Very impressive footage for the...