Pathe Freres Movies

The story of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of His Nativity to His Ascension into heaven. Impressive staging and beautiful hand-coloring...

Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale...

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder. The attorney left the...

A laundry man parks his horse-drawn cart to make a delivery. While he is inside, his horse sees a bag of oats and starts to eat them. By the time the...

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed name. While he is becoming a lawyer and making...

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

A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the...

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...

A 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.

As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble...

A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.

A family tries to eat dinner, but the table vanishes and reappears, changes shape and location, all in the usual manner laid down by Melies, but here...

A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his money.Her lover, who has made a fortune away in...

Pathé film number 380, also known as "What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor" (US) and "Peeping Tom" (UK). It should not be confused with...