Jacques feyder

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poster Faust in the Underworld

Faust in the Underworld

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with sim…

poster Chicot the Jester

Chicot the Jester

The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Coun…

poster Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

113mn - Adventure, Drama, History

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The…

Judex

300mn - Adventure, Drama, Mystery

When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengean…

poster The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

25mn - Mystery, Comedy, Crime

Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation with drugs: consuming cocaine to increase his energy or …

poster The Untamable Whiskers

The Untamable Whiskers

3mn - Fantasy, Comedy

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist.…

poster Fulta Fisher's Boarding House

Fulta Fisher's Boarding House

12mn - Comedy, Drama

Fulta Fisher runs a boarding house catering to seamen passing through the port. A girl known as Anne of Austria has had many lovers amongst the sailors, but presently she's known to be the "property" of S…

poster Die Flamme

Die Flamme

In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.

Faust

18mn - Drama, Fantasy

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 human guise and offers him a deal: a lifetime of total…

poster Fantasmagorie

Fantasmagorie

2mn - Animation

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton and the Incoherents of club Hydropathes, the film, with…

poster Rogues' Gallery

Rogues' Gallery

60mn - Mystery, Thriller

Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them…

poster Vendémiaire

Vendémiaire

If you’re already familiar with Louis Feuillade, his little-known opus Vendémiaire may come as a surprise. Unlike the bulk of his work which was characterised as ‘Fantastic Realism’, Vendémiaire is wonder…

poster Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

87mn - Family, Drama

The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…

poster The Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror

102mn - History, Drama

The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his und…

poster Foney Fables

Foney Fables

8mn - Animation, Comedy

A series of fractured fairy tales vignettes.

poster Barrabas

Barrabas

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring S…

Protéa

50mn - Action, Crime, Mystery

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Jose…

poster The Magician

The Magician

1mn - Fantasy, Drama

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead …

poster Felix Trifles with Time

Felix Trifles with Time

8mn - Sci-Fi, Animation, Comedy

Felix the Cat can't find anything to eat, so he bribes Father Time to send him back to when life was easier. However, the Stone Age turns out to have its own problems.

poster The King and the Jester

The King and the Jester

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

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