Ferdinand Zecca Movies

Short film set in ancient Egypt.

Jesus enters the temple while the merchants are selling their wares. Jesus overturns the tables of the money lenders by showing them their error.

The Clever Baker, shows a not so clever baker baking.

The French short film recreates key moments from the Russian revolution of 1905 in Odessa.

In Paris, freed by criminal hands, several barrels roll down an endless slope, dragging everything and everyone in their path.

Talby is a celebrated tragedian. Among his most fervent admirers is Gaby Sombreuse. One day, Gaby meets her idol in the flesh and is... very...

Reproduction of the terrible catastrophe which annihilated the town of St. Peter on May 8, 1902.

Short directed by Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca.

Maxime Vermont tries to get a financial help from his father-in-law, to no avail. Inspired by an idea from a pulp serial, Maxime sets out to kill his...

Jesus is brought before him again, Pontius Pilate washes his hands to show that he has no responsibility in the death of this man and hands him over...

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison.

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

A magician performs tricks with a chicken and eggs.

Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is...

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes...

Mude movie from France

Jesus is forced to carry the cross along the path, but his weakness causes him to sink under the weight of the cross. Simon of Cyrene helps him, the...

A man kills a wealthy miser - frugal fellow, I like to think - and buries his corpse under a haystack. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his...

This picture describes the well-known biblical story of Samson and Delila. The picture commences with Samson's visit to Gaza, a city of the...