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...]
Le Faux magistrat (1914)
Louis Feuillade
With their leader, the criminal mastermind Fantômas, securely incarcerated in a Belgium prison, two crooks named Paulet and Ribonard decide to target the Marquis de Tergall... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
With their leader, the criminal mastermind Fantômas, securely incarcerated in a Belgium prison, two crooks named Paulet and Ribonard decide to target the Marquis de Tergall... [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...]
Haceldama ou Le prix du sang (1919)
Julien Duvivier
Jean Didier, a young man in his mid-twenties, has one objective in life: to find and kill the man whom he believed drove his father Pierre to ruin and suicide... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Jean Didier, a young man in his mid-twenties, has one objective in life: to find and kill the man whom he believed drove his father Pierre to ruin and suicide... [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...]
Mater dolorosa (1917)
Abel Gance
Émile Berliac is a specialist doctor in children's diseases. Dedicated to his work, he neglects his young wife Manon, who, unbeknown to him, has been pursuing an extramarital affair with his brother, the writer François Rolland... [More...]
Abel Gance
Émile Berliac is a specialist doctor in children's diseases. Dedicated to his work, he neglects his young wife Manon, who, unbeknown to him, has been pursuing an extramarital affair with his brother, the writer François Rolland... [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...]
Mères françaises (1917)
René Hervil
July 1914. Madame Jeanne d'Urbex lives with her husband, a retired army officer, and son Robert at their château in the village of Mercurey in eastern France... [More...]
René Hervil
July 1914. Madame Jeanne d'Urbex lives with her husband, a retired army officer, and son Robert at their château in the village of Mercurey in eastern France... [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...]
Simplette (1919)
René Hervil
Marie Pasque leads a hard life in the country, the daughter of a rough and greedy farmer. Her only true friend is her godmother Madame Rouvière, who hopes that one day she will marry her nephew Robert... [More...]
René Hervil
Marie Pasque leads a hard life in the country, the daughter of a rough and greedy farmer. Her only true friend is her godmother Madame Rouvière, who hopes that one day she will marry her nephew Robert... [More...]