Ferdinand Zecca Movies

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 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...

Short directed by Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca.

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

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

Pathe begat the Son of Man. The actual title (minus an accent) is La Vie et la Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ. It is an April 1914 remake of...

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...

Certainly one of the greatest literary successes of our time. This work has been translated into every [sic] language and its sale has reached...

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

A well-dressed, middle-aged man is enjoying a drink at a table with a pretty young woman. He flirts with her, and she seems not to mind his...

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

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

A trick film using the reverse effect.

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

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...