Maxime leroux

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

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

A brilliant swordsman-poet with an enormous nose secretly loves the beautiful Roxane but believes himself too ugly to be loved, so he helps his handsome but tongue-tied friend Christian win her heart by w…

The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his und…

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 little vacation by themselves. They are placed in adjoi…

Onésime short

An American s the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in . The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Jose…

Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We must say, in respect for the truth, that he earned what critics calls "the estimated success": Onésime, …

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

Max and his young bride attempt to enjoy an Alpine honeymoon, despite the presence of her mother.

Jumping the Blanket.