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The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his und…

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.

In the tenth year of the legendary siege of Troy, the invincible warrior Achilles withdraws from battle after a bitter dispute with King Agamemnon over a captive slave girl, leaving the Greek forces vulne…

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, howeve…

Manfred, backed by Saracen pirates, deposes the Duke of Montfort, takes over the throne and kidnapped the Duke's young son. Capt. Riccardo, the leader of a pirate band on the ship Black Hawk, sets out to …

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

In 1913 early French film pioneer Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset died abruptly at the age of 51. His filmography of about 60 titles includes all film genres but is today mostly lost. He was particularly intere…

Onésime short

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

The lives of two young men-- A virtuous artist who's renounced a background of riches and a debonair swindler proclaimed by many the King of Paris-- intersect when the artist's mother becomes the target o…

A brilliant swordsman-poet with an enormous nose secretly loves the beautiful Roxane but believes himself too ugly to be loved, so he helps his handsome but tongue-tied friend Christian win her heart by w…

Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We must say, in respect for the truth, that he earned what critics calls "the estimated success": Onésime, …

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in . The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Jose…

From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined to conquer Jone. Glaucus purchases Nydia, the blind an…

Well-respected Pompeiian Glaucus performs an act of kindness by purchasing Nydia, a blind slave being mistreated by her owner. Nydia falls in love with her new master, but he only has eyes for Ione. Ione …

A Spanish army officer, Don Jose, stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a mysterious gypsy, Carmen. After he discovers she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, he kills the officer…

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from . Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture ar…

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…