Movies: Pathe Freres

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 ep...

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....

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....

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....

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the aut...

A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution....

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity....

A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking....

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered....

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....

Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna when he is away. When the miller finds out, he takes revenge....

On doctor's orders Max buys a new bathtub, but Max struggles to fill it, and when he does, he can't bathe in peace!...

Pathé film number 380, also known as "What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor" (US) and "Peeping Tom" (UK). It should not be confused with its remake from 1905 also titled What is Seen Through a Keyhole, a film now considered lost. As a janitor is ...

Max is doing the Tango with Miss Leonora in a Berlin night club. Being impressed by the performance a german Baron asks him to give his family a dancing lesson. In the course of the evening Max gets drunk and is still fighting his hangover when he ar...

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?...

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

Herr Pierre Van Groot owns two barges. Van Groot, his wife, and his sister-in-law navigate along the north channels between Belgium and France. Herr Pierre transports construction material in his barges but he earns extra francs trafficking in diamon...

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle....

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings....