Ferdinand Zecca Movies

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.

Tribute to Segundo de Chomón. Semi-documentary featuring short films and appearances by actors who explain his works, such as Inma de Santis,...

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

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 man tries to climb ito bed to get a night's sleep. Every time he does, the bed suddenly is someplace else and he falls on the floor.

Ferdinand Zecca's remake of his own film "Plongeur fantastique" (The Fantastic Plunger, 1901) with the same premise, showing a diver with reverse...

Albert Capellani's retelling of the biblical passage, previously taken to the screen by Ferdinand Zecca in 1902.

A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim....or is it his own conscience?

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

An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the...

A very powerful king gave a great [festivity] in honour of the birth of a princess. He invited all the great dignitaries of his kingdom, as well as...

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

A mischievous boy steals the calf's head from a drunk man, who has been sent by his wife to buy it. The boy then places the ruminant's head on the...

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.

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...

A trick film using the reverse effect.

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.