Cecile cassel

1922 version of Walt Disney's Cinderella

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acq…

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from . Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture ar…

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…

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…

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…

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

Onésime short

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

The Girl from Carthage (also known as La fille de Carthage) is a 1924 Tunisian film directed by Albert Samama Chikly.

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.

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance of a narrative; additionally, the use of dissolves as transitions in i…

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

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

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…

The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.

Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contem…

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…

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for and then is martyred after she is captured.

The Gilded Cage is a simple tale about two sisters: the pampered favorite and the put-upon, younger stepdaughter, played by Stonehouse. When the elder spurns her lover to marry wealth, she learns the erro…