Ferdinand Zecca Filmes

Stencil-coloured version of Segundo de Chomón's Les roses magiques (1906).

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...

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....

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.

The French short film recreates key moments from the Russian revolution of 1905 in Odessa.

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

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

During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks...

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

A man kills a wealthy miser - frugal fellow, I like to think - and buries his corpse under a haystack. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his...

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 is chased by ten women!

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot...

A magician performs tricks with a chicken and eggs.

At an island penal institution, new prisoners are brought in one-by-one, and introduced to the harsh realities of prison life. They are put in...

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...

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