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

Early adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story

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...

The cub journalist comes to the aid of a recently remarried woman, whose late criminal husband turns out to be still alive.

The Twins, regular bad men of the regiment, have been condemned to the military prison, and it goes much against the grain of the kind-hearted...

The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught...

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

Émile Cohl produced independently an animated series titled "Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés". There were four series of these...

Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a...

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

Silent Short

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

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...

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...

Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

A visitor to an insane asylum realises that the inmates have taken control.

Nick Carter, the famous detective, is ordered to prosecute the gang of Zigomar. Carter gets into various thorny situations but manages to escape...

Adaptation of the Émile Gaboriau novel.

Paul Bertho keeps a lion in his artist's studio, for the apparent purpose of eating his sofa, easel, canvas and hat. People come in to look at the...

A man dreams he loses his hat at sea, drowns and gets swallowed by a huge fish.