Ferdinand Zecca Movies

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.

Reproduction of the terrible catastrophe which annihilated the town of St. Peter on May 8, 1902.

Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is...

Stencil-coloured version of Segundo de Chomón's Les roses magiques (1906).

Mude movie from France

Talby is a celebrated tragedian. Among his most fervent admirers is Gaby Sombreuse. One day, Gaby meets her idol in the flesh and is... very...

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the...

Jesus is forced to carry the cross along the path, but his weakness causes him to sink under the weight of the cross. Simon of Cyrene helps him, the...

A man kills a wealthy miser - frugal fellow, I like to think - and buries his corpse under a haystack. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his...

The wife gets up, runs to the clock and seeing the time, hurriedly awakens her husband. They will miss the train. In their hurry they cannot find...

The French short film recreates key moments from the Russian revolution of 1905 in Odessa.

Rendez-vous of Apaches. Bonneteur and pickpocket. Theft at the scramble. Reticle shooter. Shoplifting. Pepper stripper. The coup of Father...

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot...

In Paris, freed by criminal hands, several barrels roll down an endless slope, dragging everything and everyone in their path.

A 8-chapter ("tableaux") short film that tells the story of a gambler who ends his life on the guillotine.

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison.

Old gentleman stretches himself on the long seat of a French railway car, after placing numerous bundles in the rack above him, and also in the rack...