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 the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The...

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

Rigadin acquires a love powder from a gypsy but it is not consumed by his intended target.

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

A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

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 horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

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

After the death of Napoleon, colonel Montaner plots to restore the Empire, but falls in love with Lise, a beautiful dancer.

Polichinelle the servant (called Harlequin in the English language version) rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have...

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

Denton, an anthropologist of note, meets by accident a new neighbor, an attractive girl, whose father insists upon her marriage to a man whom he...

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

The rebellion of 1832 is on. There is rioting and barricading in the streets. Marius in despair, and in the hope that a bullet will soon end his...

Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.

Escamillo has a tapeworm.

The film is in four parts. First, the camera pans the Kremlin and Marshal's Bridge. Sleds are parked in rows. Horse-drawn sleighs run up and down a...

The work of Jacques Serval.