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In 1913 early French film pioneer Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset died abruptly at the age of 51. His filmography of about 60 titles includes all film genres but is today mostly lost. He was particularly intere…

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).

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

In the waning days of World War I, Marianne, a spirited French farm girl who runs an inn and cares for war orphans, finds herself torn between duty and desire. Promised to her fiancé André who's fighting …

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…

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

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

Onésime short

Anne reads her younger sister, Marie-Catherine, the story of Bluebeard. In 17th-century , another set of sisters — also named Anne and Marie-Catherine — are left impoverished by their father's death…

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he proceeds to make others yawn as well, including a shop keepe…

The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to 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…

Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We must say, in respect for the truth, that he earned what critics calls "the estimated success": Onésime, …

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…

The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp …

Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hospital for sick animals.

Poor Eugénie! She's humpbacked and everyone wants to straighten her out, but when success finally comes, she's too tall not to cause disasters. To solve the problem, the help of a sword swallower is urgen…