Pathe Freres Movies

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take...

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

Directed by Camille de Morlhon. Set in ancient Babylon.

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

The story of a free-spirited Bohemian. Capellani would remake the film in the U.S. in 1916 with a longer runtime.

A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks.

Charles Prince is an inept butler, so he is fired. He goes and gets a job at a restaurant, where he discovers his former employer in a tryst with a...

Directed by Albert Capellani.

An abridged story of the triumphs and trials of Christopher Columbus, told in eight scenes.

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...

Yet again, Léontine ignores the well-meaning advice of her mother. She attempts to hang her downstairs neighbor (played by a man in drag) with...

The vagabond comes to the little village and to the farm of Pierre, where toil Toinon and Francois. There is a plague upon the sheep, and the...

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.

The story begins with Jean Valjean as a humble worker endeavoring to provide for his invalid mother. They live in a squalid home, made more wretched...

Simone has been brought up by her widowed father and Hermance, the old governess. She loves her father and worships her dead mother. But nobody has...

Recreation of a scene from Macbeth.

An early film depicting the life of Jesus Christ

Rigadin's girlfriend is a Bonapartist and wishes Rigadin was more Napoleonic. He dreams that he is Napoleon, inspecting and decorating his troops,...