Ferdinand Zecca Movies

A 8-chapter ("tableaux") short film that tells the story of a gambler who ends his life on the guillotine.

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

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 honest worker is made redundant, but he will solve his problems by marrying the employer's daughter.

Silent film

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

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...

A man is chased by ten women!

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

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...

Some naughty scenes from a balcony.

A boy armed with itching powder makes a nuisance of himself, spraying everyone in sight.

A man with some sense of intestinal urgency needs to find the right door at a railroad station. He chooses... the wrong door.

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,...

The wife gets up, runs to the clock and seeing the time, hurriedly awakens her husband. They will miss the train. In their hurry they cannot find...

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.

Jean Clédat, a young sculptor, has fallen in love with Gabrielle Normand, a painter. Jean's father, who expected him to perform his art in his...

An angel appears to Jesus, who comforts him while he is in the garden of olives and is praying for the strength to do the will of the Father.