Young love blossoms between a salesgirl and a handsome man on the French Riviera.

Blaireau, a poacher, is imprisoned for an offense he didn't commit. An ambitious lawyer tries to exculpate and glorify him. But, once he's released,...

A British playboy in Paris marries a dancer and convinces her to give up her career to move to a small cottage in the country. One night at a party...

Father Sourire, who came to the Château de Villetaneuse to ask for alms, was forced to put on the uniform of the nephew who had fled from the...

Claude, shy, instructs Michel to declare his love to Simone, the young girl he loves. But Michel seduces her and becomes engaged to her. She...

Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who pretends to be a doctor of law. They become...

After squandering his family's fortune, Richard d'Argental, a young marquis, is forced to sell his manor to a young widow, Sylvie. Things get worse...

Fred, a journalist, faces an international intrigue to protect the mysterious Nelly.

Eve is to marry Jacques, the son of a general. But the general does not want a fatherless girl as a daughter-in-law. To remedy the problem Eve, who...

In the eyes of his wife, whom he is cheating on with an actress, Count Adrien passes himself off as the famous mask racer who has won countless car...

Ginette, a Parisian seamstress, lives poorly but happily with her musician lover. When Count la Ferronnière offers to teach her the manners...

Following a misunderstanding, a young servant is mistaken for the rich heir that the owner of a fashion house intended for his daughter. The servant...

Our hero is the canteen man of the regiment ;with his bossy missus,as infuriating as his military superiors,he reigns ,so to speak ,over the grunts'...

After he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money entertaining tourists in Breton garb, lands up appearing in...

Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency hires him and he comes to the aid of his former...

A poor boy, having consented to play the role of the victim in a fake car accident story, is also invited to marry in the place of his crush who...

A parodic trial, in which one sees a merry luron, tried for trifles, rallying the whole court to him as soon as one learns that he inherits a large...

Reginald Musgrave’s maître d’hôtel has disappeared! Called to the rescue, Sherlock Holmes goes immediately to his friend, to...

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love...

An adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story about a father trying to gain control of his daughter's inheritance does not include Watson.

A Chinese mandarin named Chang is blind and finds his only happiness is the caresses of his wife and the adoration of his son. One day, while out...

Early adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story

A cheating bride is caught on photographic film.

Romance of a Boot and a Dancing Slipper

A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the...

Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Adaptation of the Émile Gaboriau novel.

Directed by Albert Capellani.

A singer marries a rich girl without her parents' consent. But he loses his voice, and has to leave her. He becomes a clown in a circus.

Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room...

The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by...

Cécile Guyon is young Pierrot. He has fallen in love with the laundress, pretty Jane Renouardt. However, she wants more than a lover whose...

A man is accused of the murder of a banker in order to get some money. In the meantime, the banker's wife is somehow convinced that she killed her...

A black man is introduced at a high society party, where he proposes to a débutante. He's refused because of his colour. He goes to an...

Melodrama about love and deceit.

Stacia Napierkowska (1886-1945) was one of the most successful of the many dancers who appeared onstage, in Paris and internationally, as Hindu...