The story of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of His Nativity to His Ascension into heaven. Impressive staging and beautiful hand-coloring distinguish the film from its Passion-play counterparts; Its scale and dynamic crowds prelude the Italian epics to come.
Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The Royal Edict; The Princess is Sixteen Years Old; Searching for the Princess; The Prediction Comes True; Thou Shalt Sleep for a Hundred Years; A Hundred Years later the Prince Charming Goes Hunting; Prince Charming Dismisses His Escort; The Castle of Sleep; The Guard's Hall; You Have Been a Long Time Coming, prince; The Wedding of the Sleeping Beauty to Prince Charming.
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 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 becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
Directed by Albert Capellani.
A pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections.
An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.
A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking.
A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.
A well-dressed, middle-aged man is enjoying a drink at a table with a pretty young woman. He flirts with her, and she seems not to mind his attentions. But is it all too good to be true?
Directed by Albert Capellani.
A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.
Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.
The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.
Adapted from Hugo's eponym novel, the story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whomever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows both his physical trials and tribulations.
At school in Brienne. On the bridge of Arcole. The campaign in Egypt. Passage of the St. Bernard Pass. Garden party in Malmaison.
A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.
A man hides his valuables under his mattress before going to sleep, blissfully unaware of the two burglars on his roof.
