Pathe Freres Movies

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale...

Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.

Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her assistant. Marie's widowed mother becomes engaged to Mr....

This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.

A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.

The story of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of His Nativity to His Ascension into heaven. Impressive staging and beautiful hand-coloring...

A trick film using the reverse effect.

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

A diver jumps into a body of water-- and then comes right back out!

The story of a free-spirited Bohemian. Capellani would remake the film in the U.S. in 1916 with a longer runtime.

A woman imagines the revenge of a gypsy that she sent away. This piece is told in multiple scenes, in an increasingly artificial world, as the venue...

Simone has been brought up by her widowed father and Hermance, the old governess. She loves her father and worships her dead mother. But nobody has...

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

A tramp who unwittingly starts a fire is chased by a mob of peasants.

An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take...

Rome, June 1800. Floria Tosca is a celebrated opera singer, better known as La Tosca. Her lover is Mario Cavaradossi, a young artist and Bomapartist...