Pathe Freres Movies

This Max Linder short opens with him and his girl blissfully rowing in a canoe before skipping ahead two years later.

Escamillo has a tapeworm.

This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of fireworks, flames an...

Seventeen-year-old Des Grieux, studying philosophy at Amiens, comes from a noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the...

An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed name. While he is becoming a lawyer and making his...

This adaptation of Charles Perrault's classic novel briefly presents the story of a poor family who doesn't find means to sustain their home and end u...

Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake.

A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks.

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her assistant. Marie's widowed mother becomes engaged to Mr. Cross...

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!

An early film depicting the life of Jesus Christ

The romantic drama based on the play of the same name, depicting the life of a 17th-century French courtesan.

Recommended by a friend of the Ambigu Theatre, Max is summoned to Joinville studios. His first role is that of a husband who comes home late.

The story is simple: Max and a pretty young lady, whom he has never met before, arrive at the same time at a luxury hotel on the Riviera, each for a l...

"Le Pied de Mouton" is an adaptation of an old French stage play titled "The Talisman" written by Alphonse Martainville and César Ribié. The atmospher...

In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air.