Pathe Freres Movies

A fairly venturesome piece of filmmaking for the era: Based on the Jules Verne story, the film utilizes a dozen cuts, irised lenses, panning shots...

The story begins with Jean Valjean as a humble worker endeavoring to provide for his invalid mother. They live in a squalid home, made more wretched...

The first cinematographic adaptation of the infamous Count Cagliostro. The alchemist Athlotas foretells that his student, Cagliostro, will meet a...

As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble...

An abridged story of the triumphs and trials of Christopher Columbus, told in eight scenes.

At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder. The attorney left the...

Charles Prince is an inept butler, so he is fired. He goes and gets a job at a restaurant, where he discovers his former employer in a tryst with a...

The Count of Champcenetz is governor of the Palace of the Tuileries. His mistress Grace Elliott, a young widow, begs him not to go the Palace where...

Directed by Camille de Morlhon. Set in ancient Babylon.

Recreation of a scene from Macbeth.

Young lovers separate, she to a career on the stage and he to remain in the small village in which they grew up. Years pass and he is hired to be a...

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

The Thenardiers and their small daughter, Eponine, and young son, Gavroche, are seen at their dingy country tavern. Here little Cosette, the daughter...

A frog hops around a magic fountain.

A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks.

Directed by Albert Capellani.

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...