Ferdinand Zecca Movies

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...

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

Talby is a celebrated tragedian. Among his most fervent admirers is Gaby Sombreuse. One day, Gaby meets her idol in the flesh and is... very...

To fill their jars with water, a group of women gathered around the well. At one point comes Samaria, a woman known for her bad temper. Jesus appears...

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 diver jumps into a body of water-- and then comes right back out! This film should not be confused with Segundo de Chomón's remake of the...

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

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

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

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...

A trick film using the reverse effect.

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...

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the...

Short directed by Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca.

A delightful and typical farce film, ending with the usual Gallic chase.