Ferdinand Zecca Movies

In Paris, freed by criminal hands, several barrels roll down an endless slope, dragging everything and everyone in their path.

A magician performs tricks with a chicken and eggs.

A man kills a wealthy miser - frugal fellow, I like to think - and buries his corpse under a haystack. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his...

Talby is a celebrated tragedian. Among his most fervent admirers is Gaby Sombreuse. One day, Gaby meets her idol in the flesh and is... very...

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 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.

A man is chased by ten women!

Two monks are seen sitting at a table drinking their beer and smoking their pipes. One has evidently told a funny story judging from their actions....

A young woman receives a message, and hurriedly leaves home. But the message was a trick to lure her into a trap, where she is assaulted and killed....

Jean Clédat, a young sculptor, has fallen in love with Gabrielle Normand, a painter. Jean's father, who expected him to perform his art in his...

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes.

An adaptation of the biblical story.

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...

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

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some...

A man flies his plane "Fend l'Air" over Paris.

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