Ferdinand Zecca Movies

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

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...

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...

Three little chimney-sweepers fall down at the door of a farmhouse exhausted with fatigue and cold when the snow is falling. The most courageous of...

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot...

A well-dressed, middle-aged man is enjoying a drink at a table with a pretty young woman. He flirts with her, and she seems not to mind his...

This picture describes the well-known biblical story of Samson and Delilah. The picture commences with Samson's visit to Gaza, a city of the...

Jesus appears, the doctors and sages who were engaged in a discussion listen to him amazed by his words of wisdom.

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

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

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

A tramp who unwittingly starts a fire is chased by a mob of peasants.

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....

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.

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...

An adaptation of the biblical story.

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

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...