Louis Feuillade

The head of the family, in search of money, dons the clothes left by the village priest. He commits a terrible deed, and later, the priest learns of...

This darling compilation of Feuillade's 'Le Printemps' series embodies the joyous feeling of dancing out of winter into the spring.

A little girl, having lost her mother, finds herself on the street, where apaches (French gopniks) take her under their wing, forcing the orphan to...

A 3 Part Collection of More Than 75 Early Films by Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade and Léonce Perret. The invention of cinema—and its growth...

Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death. The intrepid...

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est that Feuillade did in which people were shown as they really are and not as they ought to have been. This...

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

If you’re already familiar with Louis Feuillade, his little-known opus Vendémiaire may come as a surprise. Unlike the bulk of his work...

Jacques d'Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée...

When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and...

When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and...

Short comedy for the Gaumont film company

Foezel, a dim-witted police officer, is persuaded to loan his trousers to an actor who is playing a cop in a movie.

The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.

Le portrait de Mireille is a 1909 short film

The artist awakens. His maid brings him a letter from the Gaumont Studio. After a quick glance to it, he hastens to get dressed and runs to the...

Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he does indeed steal an elephant from a circus, parading it...

When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.

A manuscript delivered to a playhouse is eventually turned into a major hit with critics and audience alike. The only problem is that no one knows...

Two small girls whose father is in prison are collected by their grandfather after losing their mother in a shipwreck.

A melodrama.

The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother.

Overview of ideas about the police on the occasion of an attack on the bourgeois by Apaches gangsters.

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A...

Bébé's father is attacked by the "apaches", a group of hooligans. Bébé and his sister decide to avenge him by gaining the...

This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane...

Early slapstick short from Louis Feuillade involving runaways, except that, instead of it being a runaway horse (see Griffith's THE CURTAIN POLE for...

A film from Louis Feuillade.

Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as...

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.

A mother (Renee Carl) goes to see a palm reader who informs her that a loved one is about to die. The woman doesn't know if it's her son or her...

LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the...

A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears. Of course, the child is miserable even though he has...

Three men go out on the ocean in a row boat. There, they see dancing fairies. Then manage to catch one and take her aboard the boat--taking her back...

A soldier during World War 1 wants to be reunited with his family for Christmas.

A midsummer Phantasy. The man having been attacked by footpads, puts on a suit of medieval armor which has been magnetized at a dynamo by two boys....

Once Mme. Ducordon discovers the joys of a new fashionable dance, she starts performing it wherever she happens to be.

A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).

A man has diarrhea.... a French comedy.

Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death. The intrepid...

A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.

Directed by Louis Feuillade.

Directed by Louis Feuillade.

Directed by Louis Feuillade.

A beginning of a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade from 1911-1913

A continuation of the film series "Judex" the masked fighter for justice.

Directed by Louis Feuillade.

An ancient Greek legend comes to life, courtesy of the Gaumont studios.

The Madonna gives a golden lily to the poor musician. He tries to sell it and this arouses the suspicion of the goldsmith.

The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.

A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.

A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.

Kids reject the bad taste of medicine. Bout de Zan steals a cigar and tastes it, but it doesn't work.

Without a job and no money to spend, Blanche Mery (Gina Manès) has to accept a job offered by Gunter (Édouard Mathé), a strange...

Without a job and no money to spend, Blanche Mery (Gina Manès) has to accept a job offered by Gunter (Édouard Mathé), a strange...

One night, Bout-de-Zan finds a wanderer and shares his bed to him. The next morning there is a general panic among the servants...

Bout-de-Zan receives New Year gifts and uses them use it in a rather different way.

After returning from the circus, Bout-de-Zan starts doing acrobatic tricks.

Bout-de-Zan receives New Year gifts and uses them use it in a rather different way.

Bout-de-Zan and his family are around the dinner table, awaiting the visit of his millionaire uncle. But the uncle is not what he was...

Following his parents, Bout-de-Zan participates in a masked ball wearing an elegant gown.

Mme de Calvières (Sylvia Lux) and her brother Roger (Édouard Mathé), due to an unpaid debt, fall into a difficult situation.

During the WWI, Jeannette (Musidora) finds refuge in the South France, among other women. She starts the correspondence with a soldier of the front...

Mme de Calvières (Sylvia Lux) and her brother Roger (Édouard Mathé), due to an unpaid debt, fall into a difficult situation.

The noble Margrave of Hess, condemns captain Christian to exile for presuming to ask the hand of his daughter Genevieve in marriage.

The noble Margrave of Hess, condemns captain Christian to exile for presuming to ask the hand of his daughter Genevieve in marriage.

Six-episode film Directed by Maurice Champreux and Louis Feuillade.

At the front, Bébé meets two Russian soldiers.

At the front, Bébé meets two Russian soldiers.

Pierrot et Pierrette, brother and sister, live in a caravan with their grandfather, the former ringmaster of a circus. To earn a living, they sing in...

Two war orphans, Joseph, apprentice printer, and Lisette, typist, live with their grandmother in Belleville. Lisette loves his next door neighbor,...

Pierrot et Pierrette, brother and sister, live in a caravan with their grandfather, the former ringmaster of a circus. To earn a living, they sing in...

Bébé's mother and her friends conduct a spiritualist session. They feel the presence of evil and get panic attacks, before they find...

Two war orphans, Joseph, apprentice printer, and Lisette, typist, live with their grandmother in Belleville. Lisette loves his next door neighbor,...

On the street, Bébé has his pocket watch stolen. He sets off to find the thief himself.

Gustave (Biscot) realizes he has acquired a telekinetic power.

With the help of Lévesque and Musidora, Feuillade creates a light-hearted meta-fiction, self-parodying his own work.

A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.

After falling in love with a young man (Edouard Mathé), Lilie/Lily abandoned her family and eloped, only to comes back with an illegitimate...

After falling in love with a young man (Edouard Mathé), Lilie/Lily abandoned her family and eloped, only to comes back with an illegitimate...

Directed by Louis Feuillade. Part of the 'Life As It Is' series.

Bébé's nanny reads to him the exploits of Saint Martin, who gave half of his coat to a poor man at the gates of the city of Amiens, so...

Madam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory. Fred, a servant who abuses her beasts, is sent away...

A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless...

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...

French film produced and distributed by Gaumont (catalogue number 1590) originally named "La Terroriste" (as registered in the BnF...

Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the...

A police sergeant’s late night horn playing dismays neighbors in his apartment house, leading to marital discord, hysteria and a bizarre form...

A police sergeant’s late night horn playing dismays neighbors in his apartment house, leading to marital discord, hysteria and a bizarre form...

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and...

A mischievous child feeds his father a laxative, leading to disruptive bouts of intestinal disorder—and an unexpected reward. (MoMA)

The first child star of cinema gives a shivering girl half his cloak and learns that half a coat against the cold does not help much.

One of the longest films ever made

This twelve-part melodrama details the intertwined fates of a Portuguese nobleman, a Carmelite nun, and a mysterious look-alike.

A vaudeville song catches on and becomes so popular that everybody knows it. At first, those who hear it can't help but sing and dance to it. People...

A rich man, living in a splendid palace, in the city of Jerusalem, with his daughter and many servants, surrounded by every possible luxury, but...

A woman enters her sitting room and begins to undress, as she feels a Pulicomorpha crawling under her clothes. Pathé Frères production...

A woman enters her sitting room and begins to undress, as she feels a Pulicomorpha crawling under her clothes. Pathé Frères production...

A film by Louis Feuillade.

A four-year-old saves the day.

A rich man rewards a tramp for defending him from muggers with a large sum of money in the form of a single bank note. Nobody can cash the big bill...

A child terrorizes a fisherman by dressing his dog in a crocodile costume.

A short from Feuillade's Bébé series

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

1910 Louis Feuillade short film

If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.

Showing a weird invention, called hypnotic mirror, in action. Placed before anyone the polished surface reflects the actual thoughts within their...

A continuation of the film series "Judex" the masked fighter for justice.

A retelling of the King Midas story

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A biblical drama.

The scene of the drama is a block of modern flats. Many of the residents are away at a dance, and the janitor and his staff decide upon a...

A short silent film about war

French horror short from 1913.

A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.

A French short film

A clerk is unable to keep his wife and family in comfort, and he asks his manager for an increase. But a girl has offered her services to the...

Jacques d'Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée...

A grenadier had come to see his lover, a servant in the homes of wealthy bourgeois people. Hearing a noise, he is afraid of the masters and allows...

A gust of wind leads a man on a merry chase through the city, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake as he pursues his errant hat.

Our young friend Jimmie forms a sudden attachment for a little waif in the streets whom he finds playing an accordion for alms. The little urchin...

When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed of the city's absent ruler, who must return in...

A manuscript delivered to a playhouse is eventually turned into a major hit with critics and audience alike. The only problem is that no one knows...

A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two scoundrels plot to rob her of the diamond before she...

Part of Feuillade's 'Life As It Is' series

A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless...

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.

Louis Feuillade's final film

Louis Feuillade's final film

Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as...

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A...

On his way to visit his mistress, a man has a serious car accident. His wife cares for him with such devotion that he rediscovers his love for her.

Following a series of unfortunate accidents, the eminently respectable Séraphin, the meticulous and correct manager in an insurance company,...

"Be bold, young man, be bold!" repeats Judge Barbachon to his clerk Belhomme. Putting the precepts of his boss into practice, Belhomme first tries to...

While Monsieur and his friends are making music, a fire breaks out in the apartment. The little girl is saved, but the emotion causes the mother to...

Burlesque: the champion describes his race with such conviction that everyone is carried away with him.

Having faked an automobile accident, an adventuress is taken into the home of a "ganadero" (a landowner of the Camargue), whom she seduces. Her...

Phémie comes to work as a maid in the Chaloupié household. An article and a photograph in the newspaper convince the Chaloupiés...

In order to take part in a "tournoi des dames", Narcisse Leblond persuades his wife that he is going to look after his sick godmother at Beaucaire....

Some amateur players rehearse a crime play in the apartment of one of the company. Bout-de-Zan connects the telephone to the room of the concierge,...

The constant smile of the eternally amiable Jacques Perdrot often complicates his life. Appointed chief of police at Castel-Boudin, he takes up his...

Bout-de-Zan and his little friends dress up.

A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two scoundrels plot to rob her of the diamond before she...

A melodrama.

Short romantic comedy starring Musidora as a capricious woman.

A man and his wife have a nice little racket of coining false money. While they go out to spend it, their daughter comes across a poor old woman and...

Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own father.

This twelve-part melodrama details the intertwined fates of a Portuguese nobleman, a Carmelite nun, and a mysterious look-alike.

Six-episode film Directed by Maurice Champreux and Louis Feuillade.

Judex the vigilante enjoins crooked banker Maurice-Ernest Favraux to distribute his ill-gotten fortune to the city's poor. The thugs decide to kidnap...

"Alice Guy-Blaché liked Feuillade's scripts, and one of them, Le coup de vent, was filmed by Etienne Armaud in 1905. Two years later, Alice...

Lost short film

Lost short film

Lost short film

Lost short film

"Alice Guy-Blaché liked Feuillade's scripts, and one of them, Le coup de vent, was filmed by Etienne Armaud in 1905. Two years later, Alice...

Lost short film

Lost short film

Lost short film

Lost short film

One of the longest films ever made

If you’re already familiar with Louis Feuillade, his little-known opus Vendémiaire may come as a surprise. Unlike the bulk of his work...

Two small girls whose father is in prison are collected by their grandfather after losing their mother in a shipwreck.

A baroness entrusts her daughter to her servants, Germain and Marie. Marie takes her to a dance hall, where the daughter is taken by a man.