Ferdinand Zecca Movies

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

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

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...

Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous...

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 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...

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

Short directed by Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca.

During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks...

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot...

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...

Jesus is forced to carry the cross along the path, but his weakness causes him to sink under the weight of the cross. Simon of Cyrene helps him, the...

Jesus appears, the doctors and sages who were engaged in a discussion listen to him amazed by his words of wisdom.

This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.

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

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

A tramp who unwittingly starts a fire is chased by a mob of peasants.

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes...