Ferdinand Zecca Movies

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,...

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to...

Some naughty scenes from a balcony.

Short directed by Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca.

Jesus appears, the doctors and sages who were engaged in a discussion listen to him amazed by his words of wisdom.

Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is...

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

It is winter and a couple invites an old woman to eat. The old woman then becomes a fairy and makes the spring appears.

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes.

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot...

Reproduction of the terrible catastrophe which annihilated the town of St. Peter on May 8, 1902.

During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks...

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes...

An honest worker is made redundant, but he will solve his problems by marrying the employer's daughter.

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

Charles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to...