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Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a...

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female...

Hortense Fauvel, the wife of a village postmaster, takes Aimée, a young shepherdess, under her wing. Aimée soon becomes engaged to...

Adaptation of the Émile Gaboriau novel.

The story of "Jack" is well-known. It is a beautiful story of a natural child. His mother, Ida de Borancy, worships the dear little nameless and...

A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and...

A Nick Carter serial

Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Eugenie Grandet has discovered where her father, a miserable old miser, keeps his treasure. Eugenie's cousin, Charles, is the bearer of a letter from...

The story of the children of Captain Grant.

Short melodrama. Two former lovers meet twenty years later when the man has to compete with the son of the woman.

In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair's new series of...

An ape, turned near human by Dr. Coriolis and given the name 'Balaoo', is smitten by the beauty of Coriolis' niece, Madeleine. Being inquisitive,...

A Nick Carter serial

The cub journalist comes to the aid of a recently remarried woman, whose late criminal husband turns out to be still alive.

A sensational detective story, founded on the romance of Leon Sazie. The noted criminal who terrorized all Europe is shown in these three Zigomar...

No plot available. The director Maurice Tourneur perceived this film to be indicative of the advances French cinema could have taken had it not been...