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...

In all likeliness an inspiration for Griffith's The Lonely Villa (1909), Terrible Anguish tells the brief and tragic tale of a family being torn...

Jobard receives a note from a secret admirer and goes to a cafe to meet her. However, not knowing what she looks like, he mistakes other woman for...

A young student goes to his father and asks for money. When this isn't enough he goes to his mother who gives him more. Happy, he meets his friends...

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.

Dr Faust is continually obsessed with his quest for knowledge and absolute pleasure. One day, the demon Mephistopheles appears to him in his study in...

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

Lucien Cazalis first his maid and hires a new one. When she puts on an apron, he realizes how pretty she is. What's a Frenchman to do? However, when...

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...

Depicts a doctor looking into his patient's brain and seeing a collection of hideous and grotesque figures.

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...

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

The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

It's Lucien Cazalis's day for calling on the ladies. Being a true gentleman, he brings some flowers as a gift. Unfortunately, his rival pinches them...

There is a feud of 30 years' standing between the Revelle and Wainwright families, dwelling in the Apache country, despite which Shirley, daughter of...

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

Strangely hypnotic short from Émile Cohl featuring the usual seamless transformations, this time of a series of grotesque faces.

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 pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections.

A man believes to have scared his perpetually agitated mother-in-law to death and goes out to buy her a nice wreath.