Ferdinand Zecca Movies

To the modern viewer, it may seem peculiar that there are several movies in which a man sneaks a kiss off a young woman in a darkened railway car,...

Old gentleman stretches himself on the long seat of a French railway car, after placing numerous bundles in the rack above him, and also in the rack...

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

A man flies his plane "Fend l'Air" over Paris.

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes.

Short directed by Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca.

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...

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

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...

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some...

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...

Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous...

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.

Some naughty scenes from a balcony.

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

Stencil-coloured version of Segundo de Chomón's Les roses magiques (1906).

Charles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to...

A retired Nintendo champion comes to terms with his broken Nintendo Entertainment System in Louisville, Kentucky in 2005.