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...

Adaptation of the Émile Gaboriau novel.

A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and...

Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a travelling...

Eugenie Grandet has discovered where her father, a miserable old miser, keeps his treasure. Eugenie's cousin, Charles, is the bearer of a letter from...

An ape, turned near human by Dr. Coriolis and given the name 'Balaoo', is smitten by the beauty of Coriolis' niece, Madeleine. Being inquisitive,...

The story of "Jack" is well-known. It is a beautiful story of a natural child. His mother, Ida de Borancy, worships the dear little nameless and...

A man gamles his wife away.

Hortense Fauvel, the wife of a village postmaster, takes Aimée, a young shepherdess, under her wing. Aimée soon becomes engaged to François, the...

The story of the children of Captain Grant.

Drama in which the love between Claude and Germaine is tested when Claude is falsely accused and Germaine's father doesn't approve of their...

A female fortuneteller examines the sole of a man's foot to see his future.

Early adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story

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...

The Twins, regular bad men of the regiment, have been condemned to the military prison, and it goes much against the grain of the kind-hearted...

Silent mystery

A Nick Carter serial

Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

No plot available. The director Maurice Tourneur perceived this film to be indicative of the advances French cinema could have taken had it not been...