Ferdinand Zecca Movies

A boy armed with itching powder makes a nuisance of himself, spraying everyone in sight.

Reproduction of the terrible catastrophe which annihilated the town of St. Peter on May 8, 1902.

“A melodrama of infidelity and violence set in Venice. An old beggar discovers a noble woman's clandestine affair and exposes the couple to the...

Stencil-coloured version of Segundo de Chomón's Les roses magiques (1906).

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

A retired Nintendo champion comes to terms with his broken Nintendo Entertainment System in Louisville, Kentucky in 2005.

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...

Short film set in ancient Egypt.

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

The opening of this remarkable and mysterious film brings into view a scene in a parlor, with two servants discussing the easiest way to hang four...

Backward facing camera stunt story of a man coming out of the water.

To the modern viewer, it may seem peculiar that there are several movies in which a man sneaks a kiss off a young woman in a darkened railway car,...

Early silent adaptation of the fairy-tale Puss In Boots.

A group of men with a broken down auto get an assist from a man who can’t walk.

Short film by Pathé frères released in 1905

On the theater stage, a magician makes appear and disappear his partners

A 8-chapter ("tableaux") short film that tells the story of a gambler who ends his life on the guillotine.

At an island penal institution, new prisoners are brought in one-by-one, and introduced to the harsh realities of prison life. They are put in...

An angel appears to Jesus, who comforts him while he is in the garden of olives and is praying for the strength to do the will of the Father.

Jesus is brought before him again, Pontius Pilate washes his hands to show that he has no responsibility in the death of this man and hands him over...