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.

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

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...

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

A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking.

Boireau's father keeps trying to apprentice him to a different trade. Each time, the youngster annoys the customers and destroys the goods and...

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

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

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...

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

A man behaves like a monkey after its brain is transplanted into him.

A couple’s fight over dinner leads to spiralling domestic abuse that spreads all over town. (MoMA)

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

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

Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her assistant. Marie's widowed mother becomes engaged to Mr....

Nydia, an Early Christian girl seemingly singled out for exclusive persecution by the despotic empress of Rome. The empress' ire seems to have been...

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.

La Glu tells the story of a woman, separated from her husband, and of evil reputation, who at a summer resort tries to capture the fortune of a...