French cinema: 1910s
À la conquête du pôle (1912)
Georges Méliès
The world's greatest scientists gather to plan an expedition to the North Pole. Various ingenious methods of reaching the pole are put forward but it is Professor Maboul's flying machine that creates most excitement...
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Georges Méliès
L'Agonie de Byzance (1913)
Louis Feuillade
On 6th April 1453, the armies of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II surround the holy Christian city of Constantinople, poised to attack when the command is given...
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Louis Feuillade
Au pays des lits clos (1913)
Maurice Mariaud
One night, the peace of Saint-Ganolé, a sleepy Breton fishing village, is broken by an alarm notifying its inhabitants that a small vessel is in distress...
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Maurice Mariaud
Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (1914)
Albert Capellani
Paris, 1793. After four years of turmoil, the French Revolution has reached its bloodiest phase with the execution of King Louis XVI, the old monarchy replaced by a reign of terror...
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Albert Capellani
Le Chrysanthème rouge (1912)
Léonce Perret
A young woman is courted by two men who are prepared to do anything to win her hand in marriage. Unable to decide between the two men, the woman sets them a challenge: she will surrender her heart to the man who gives to her the flower that she treasures the most...
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Léonce Perret
La Cigarette (1919)
Germaine Dulac
The mummy of an ancient Egyptian princess is the latest addition to a museum of oriental art curated by the esteemed academic Pierre Guérande... [More...]
Germaine Dulac
The mummy of an ancient Egyptian princess is the latest addition to a museum of oriental art curated by the esteemed academic Pierre Guérande... [More...]
Le Coeur et l'argent (1912)
Louis Feuillade
Suzanne Mauguiot has fallen in love with a penniless ferryman named Raymond, but her father, a prosperous innkeeper, has decided she must marry the wealthy Monsieur Vernier... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Suzanne Mauguiot has fallen in love with a penniless ferryman named Raymond, but her father, a prosperous innkeeper, has decided she must marry the wealthy Monsieur Vernier... [More...]
Le Coupable (1917)
André Antoine
France, 1914. Chrétien Forgeat, a man in his twenties, is on trial for murder. His defence lawyer, Chrétien Lescuyer, begins by confessing to the court that he is the accused man's father and pleads extenuating circumstances... [More...]
André Antoine
France, 1914. Chrétien Forgeat, a man in his twenties, is on trial for murder. His defence lawyer, Chrétien Lescuyer, begins by confessing to the court that he is the accused man's father and pleads extenuating circumstances... [More...]
Les Dents de fer (1913)
Léonce Perret
One evening, Dr Brosny and his wife are hosting a lively dinner party at their château in the country when their little girl, Germaine, is suddenly taken ill... [More...]
Léonce Perret
One evening, Dr Brosny and his wife are hosting a lively dinner party at their château in the country when their little girl, Germaine, is suddenly taken ill... [More...]
Le Diamant noir (1913)
Alfred Machin
Luc Ogier is dismissed by his employers when a valuable black diamond mysteriously goes astray. Dishonoured and rejected by his fiancée, he accompanies the explorer Santher on an expedition to the Congo... [More...]
Alfred Machin
Luc Ogier is dismissed by his employers when a valuable black diamond mysteriously goes astray. Dishonoured and rejected by his fiancée, he accompanies the explorer Santher on an expedition to the Congo... [More...]
La Dixième symphonie (1918)
Abel Gance
The wealthy Eve Dinant soon regrets becoming the mistress of a totally depraved adventurer, Fred Ryce. When the latter's sister threatens her Eve kills her in self-defence... [More...]
Abel Gance
The wealthy Eve Dinant soon regrets becoming the mistress of a totally depraved adventurer, Fred Ryce. When the latter's sister threatens her Eve kills her in self-defence... [More...]
L'Enfant de Paris (1913)
Léonce Perret
Marie de Valen is devastated on receiving the news that her husband Pierre, an army officer, has been killed in his latest military exploit... [More...]
Léonce Perret
Marie de Valen is devastated on receiving the news that her husband Pierre, an army officer, has been killed in his latest military exploit... [More...]
Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine (1913)
Louis Feuillade
When a valuable pearl necklace is stolen from the Princess Danidoff at the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris, Inspector Juve soon discovers the identity of the thief... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
When a valuable pearl necklace is stolen from the Princess Danidoff at the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris, Inspector Juve soon discovers the identity of the thief... [More...]
Fantômas contre Fantômas (1914)
Louis Feuillade
For years, the redoubtable Inspector Juve has been engaged on a personal crusade to bring the arch-criminal Fantômas to justice - in vain... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
For years, the redoubtable Inspector Juve has been engaged on a personal crusade to bring the arch-criminal Fantômas to justice - in vain... [More...]
Germinal (1913)
Albert Capellani
In 1860s France, an unemployed railway worker, Étienne Lantier, arrives in the bleak mining town of Montsou in the north of France and finds work as a miner... [More...]
Albert Capellani
In 1860s France, an unemployed railway worker, Étienne Lantier, arrives in the bleak mining town of Montsou in the north of France and finds work as a miner... [More...]
La Hantise (1912)
Louis Feuillade
At a soirée, Madame Trévoux encounters the fashionable palmist Josepha de Delphes and allows her to read her fortune in her hand... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
At a soirée, Madame Trévoux encounters the fashionable palmist Josepha de Delphes and allows her to read her fortune in her hand... [More...]
J'accuse (1919)
Abel Gance
In a village in the south of France, Jean Diaz, a sensitive young poet, is in love with Édith, the wife of the brutal and unforgiving François Laurin... [More...]
Abel Gance
In a village in the south of France, Jean Diaz, a sensitive young poet, is in love with Édith, the wife of the brutal and unforgiving François Laurin... [More...]
Judex (1916)
Louis Feuillade
Robert Moralés, an ex-convict, has entered into a partnership with the beautiful but treacherous adventuress Diana Monti... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Robert Moralés, an ex-convict, has entered into a partnership with the beautiful but treacherous adventuress Diana Monti... [More...]
Juve contre Fantômas (1913)
Louis Feuillade
Police Inspector Juve has good reason to think that his formidable archenemy Fantômas is up to his old tricks when the body of a woman, badly disfigured, is found at the private residence of Dr Chaleck... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Police Inspector Juve has good reason to think that his formidable archenemy Fantômas is up to his old tricks when the body of a woman, badly disfigured, is found at the private residence of Dr Chaleck... [More...]
Max victime du quinquina (1911)
Max Linder
Lacking his usual vitality, Max consults his doctor, who advises him to take a glass of Bordeaux quinine every day. Back home, Max takes the bottle of medicine and pours it into one large glass... [More...]
Max Linder
Lacking his usual vitality, Max consults his doctor, who advises him to take a glass of Bordeaux quinine every day. Back home, Max takes the bottle of medicine and pours it into one large glass... [More...]
Les Misérables (1913)
Albert Capellani
Époque I - Jean Valjean France, 1815. Unable to find work as a labourer, Jean Valjean is forced to steal a loaf of bread for his starving mother... [More...]
Albert Capellani
Époque I - Jean Valjean France, 1815. Unable to find work as a labourer, Jean Valjean is forced to steal a loaf of bread for his starving mother... [More...]
Le Mort qui tue (1913)
Louis Feuillade
The journalist Fandor is left to lament the death of his courageous friend and ally Inspector Juve after the latter perished in an explosion in the course of their most recent dramatic tussle with the evil master of crime Fantômas... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
The journalist Fandor is left to lament the death of his courageous friend and ally Inspector Juve after the latter perished in an explosion in the course of their most recent dramatic tussle with the evil master of crime Fantômas... [More...]
Le Mystère des roches de Kador (1912)
Léonce Perret
When the Marquis de Kéranic dies, he leaves his entire estate to his niece Suzanne de Lormel. Under the terms of the will, Suzane will only receive her inheritance on her eighteenth birthday and, if she should die, go mad or enter a convent before this date, it will pass to her cousin, Count Fernand de Kéranic... [More...]
Léonce Perret
When the Marquis de Kéranic dies, he leaves his entire estate to his niece Suzanne de Lormel. Under the terms of the will, Suzane will only receive her inheritance on her eighteenth birthday and, if she should die, go mad or enter a convent before this date, it will pass to her cousin, Count Fernand de Kéranic... [More...]
Notre-Dame de Paris (1911)
Albert Capellani
Paris, 1482. In the streets of the capital, the common folk are enthralled by the sight of the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda as she performs exotic dances for their entertainment and for the few meagre coins they offer her in return... [More...]
Albert Capellani
Paris, 1482. In the streets of the capital, the common folk are enthralled by the sight of the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda as she performs exotic dances for their entertainment and for the few meagre coins they offer her in return... [More...]
Le Roman d'un mousse (1914)
Léonce Perret
Deeply in debt, the Marquis de Luscky begs the moneylender Elie Werb to save him from ruin. Werb refuses to give the Marquis any further money as he already owes him a substantial amount... [More...]
Léonce Perret
Deeply in debt, the Marquis de Luscky begs the moneylender Elie Werb to save him from ruin. Werb refuses to give the Marquis any further money as he already owes him a substantial amount... [More...]
Sur les rails (1912)
Léonce Perret
Pierre, a young railway worker, is in love with Augustine, the owner of a café. Neither knows that Jacques, a colleague and supposed friend of Pierre, also has amorous designs on Augustine... [More...]
Léonce Perret
Pierre, a young railway worker, is in love with Augustine, the owner of a café. Neither knows that Jacques, a colleague and supposed friend of Pierre, also has amorous designs on Augustine... [More...]
La Tare (1911)
Louis Feuillade
Anna Moulin works as a waitress in a bustling brasserie in Paris' Latin Quarter, a place frequented by students and loose women... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Anna Moulin works as a waitress in a bustling brasserie in Paris' Latin Quarter, a place frequented by students and loose women... [More...]
Tih Minh (1918)
Louis Feuillade
After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry... [More...]
Le Trust, ou les batailles de l'argent (1911)
Louis Feuillade
Darbois, a wealthy industrialist, declines an invitation to join a trust headed by the rubber magnate Jacob Berwick after he receives a telegram from a young scientist, Jean Brémond, who claims to have invented a revolutionary new form of rubber... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Darbois, a wealthy industrialist, declines an invitation to join a trust headed by the rubber magnate Jacob Berwick after he receives a telegram from a young scientist, Jean Brémond, who claims to have invented a revolutionary new form of rubber... [More...]
Les Vampires (1915)
Louis Feuillade
Paris is in the grip of an unseen, nameless, terror, against which the police are powerless to act. A criminal organisation known as the Vampires create fear and mayhem, killing, looting, abducting - no crime is too daring, or too despicable... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Paris is in the grip of an unseen, nameless, terror, against which the police are powerless to act. A criminal organisation known as the Vampires create fear and mayhem, killing, looting, abducting - no crime is too daring, or too despicable... [More...]