Robert et robert

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.

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).

In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.

A brilliant swordsman-poet with an enormous nose secretly loves the beautiful Roxane but believes himself too ugly to be loved, so he helps his handsome but tongue-tied friend Christian win her heart by w…

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…

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril …

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…

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…

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a trick film or something that he's known for, the directo…

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon become…

When a street-smart teenager's wealthy Texas uncle announces a visit, he must convince his gang to pose as the six siblings his late father bragged about having, leading to hilarious hijinks and unexpecte…

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

With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back.

When both parents die during their perilous wagon train journey to Oregon, seven orphaned children must survive the treacherous wilderness and complete the 2,000-mile trek alone. Led by their supposedly "…

A jazz saxophonist and a stuntman must impersonate two Brazilian billionaire cousins in Rio de Janeiro to flush out assassins plotting to kill them.

The twins of the recently departed Marcus Aurelius fight it out to see who will become emperor of Rome.

An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.

A wealthy yachtsman bets his friends he can survive alone on a deserted South Pacific island with nothing but a toothbrush, proving his ingenuity by building an elaborate jungle paradise complete with mod…