Ferdinand Zecca Movies

A young woman receives a message, and hurriedly leaves home. But the message was a trick to lure her into a trap, where she is assaulted and killed....

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...

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...

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....

An angel appears to Jesus, who comforts him while he is in the garden of olives and is praying for the strength to do the will of the Father.

Jesus is forced to carry the cross along the path, but his weakness causes him to sink under the weight of the cross. Simon of Cyrene helps him, the...

Jean Clédat, a young sculptor, has fallen in love with Gabrielle Normand, a painter. Jean's father, who expected him to perform his art in his...

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...

On the theater stage, a magician makes appear and disappear his partners

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

Depicting well-known incidents in the life of Jesus Christ, this milestone of early cinema won world fame, huge audiences and a screen life of...

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison.

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

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

A 8-chapter ("tableaux") short film that tells the story of a gambler who ends his life on the guillotine.

Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous...

In Paris, freed by criminal hands, several barrels roll down an endless slope, dragging everything and everyone in their path.

Talby is a celebrated tragedian. Among his most fervent admirers is Gaby Sombreuse. One day, Gaby meets her idol in the flesh and is... very...

A delightful and typical farce film, ending with the usual Gallic chase.