Movies: Pathe Freres

A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution....

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 subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the aut...

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him....

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war....

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba....

A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them....

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

The story of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of His Nativity to His Ascension into heaven. Impressive staging and beautiful hand-coloring distinguish the film from its Passion-play counterparts; Its scale and dynamic crowds prelude the Italian ep...

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar....

Herr Pierre Van Groot owns two barges. Van Groot, his wife, and his sister-in-law navigate along the north channels between Belgium and France. Herr Pierre transports construction material in his barges but he earns extra francs trafficking in diamon...

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

A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they reach land, a sailor who died during the mutiny is made a martyr, inspiring an uprising in the city. Th...

Pathé film number 380, also known as "What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor" (US) and "Peeping Tom" (UK). It should not be confused with its remake from 1905 also titled What is Seen Through a Keyhole, a film now considered lost. As a janitor is ...

A laundry man parks his horse-drawn cart to make a delivery. While he is inside, his horse sees a bag of oats and starts to eat them. By the time the man comes back outside, the horse has eaten a whole bag of oats, and has so much energy that he begi...

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror....

Attractive travelogue filmed in and around Delhi's Qutb complex....

Max, who fears dogs, is chased by them through the city, over walls, and even up a chimney and onto a roof....

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take life, and one can follow a snake-like line branding on the polished face of the stone the name of th...

A magician shows tricks with money....

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 way up the ladder of success with the help of a political boss, the wife he left behind (Eleanor Wo...