Ferdinand Zecca Movies

A man with some sense of intestinal urgency needs to find the right door at a railroad station. He chooses... the wrong door.

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

Early silent adaptation of the fairy-tale Puss In Boots.

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

A man kills a wealthy miser - frugal fellow, I like to think - and buries his corpse under a haystack. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his...

Maxime Vermont tries to get a financial help from his father-in-law, to no avail. Inspired by an idea from a pulp serial, Maxime sets out to kill his...

An oppressive droning score makes this rendering of the Faust legend quite disturbing to watch. The film itself consists of a number of impressive...

A man is chased by ten women!

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.

Old gentleman stretches himself on the long seat of a French railway car, after placing numerous bundles in the rack above him, and also in the rack...

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.

To the modern viewer, it may seem peculiar that there are several movies in which a man sneaks a kiss off a young woman in a darkened railway car,...

Behind the elderly husband's back, the lovers kiss and go off together. But is he unaware of their actions. No! So she swears that her husband is mad...

Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake.

A boy armed with itching powder makes a nuisance of himself, spraying everyone in sight.

A trick film using the reverse effect.

This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.