Screenplay: Louis Feuillade

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast Musidora · Edouard Mathé · Marcel Lévesque · Jean Aymé

Plot Two journalists attempt to uncover the truth behind the criminal organisation, known as The Vampires, who are terrorizing Paris.

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast René Cresté · Musidora · René Poyen · Edouard Mathé

Plot A twelve part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast René Navarre · Edmund Breon · Georges Melchior · Renée Carl

Plot Louis Feuillade's 5 1/2-hour epic follows FantÃ'mas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black, as he is pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Channing Pollock · Francine Bergé · Edith Scob · Théo Sarapo

Plot Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast...

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast René Navarre · Edmund Breon · Georges Melchior · Renée Carl

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast René Navarre · Edmund Breon · Georges Melchior · Renée Carl

Plot Fantômas makes it as the emperor of Crime. First is the robbery at the Royal Palace Hotel. Then he abducts Lord Beltham. As Fantômas' fame increases actor Valgrand creates the...

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast René Navarre · Edmund Breon · Georges Melchior · Renée Carl

Plot After a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. With Juve presumed dead, Fandor must investigate alone. Will Fantomas...

Direction Louis Feuillade · Léonce Perret

Cast Suzanne Grandais · Renée Carl · Raymond Lyon · Paul Manson

Plot The heroine of Le coeur et l'argent is forced to marry for position instead of love, and suffers an atypically bleak fate (great résumé, thanks to I-don't-remember-who)

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast René Navarre · Edmund Breon · Georges Melchior · Renée Carl

Plot As inspector Juve seems to be unable to put Fantômas behind bars the Press comes up with the idea Juve must be Fantômas himself! Juve is soon jailed as an...

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast René Poyen · Jeanne Saint-Bonnet · Renée Carl · Juliette Malherbe

Plot A circus is in town so Bout-de-Zan (Rene Poyen) decides to sneak off and see the elephant while everyone else is sleeping. Once there he decides the best thing to...

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast René Navarre · Suzanne Grandais · Ernest Bourbon · Paul Manson

Plot In this much-copied innovation, a man’s near-cataclysmic obsession with his wife’s infidelity begins when he views a movie and becomes convinced that the actress walking arm in arm with another...

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast Delphin · Renée Carl · Suzanne Grandais · Marthe Vinot

Plot A manuscript is mysteriously delivered to a playhouse where it is eventually turned into a major hit with critics calling it a masterpiece. The only problem is that no one...

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast André Bacqué · Abel Gance · Mary Brunel · Madeleine Sézanne

Plot On a script by young Abel Gance who even plays the role of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Moliére, this is the first important film by Léonce Perret at Gaumont....

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast Luitz Morat · Georges Melchior · Albert Reusy · Jeanne Briey

Direction Romeo Bosetti

Plot Two youths unharness a man's donkey, letting the cart tip up, and the pumpkins inside roll down the street. The owner and his donkey then pursue the pumpkins through a...

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast Renée Carl · Nadette Darson · Alice Tissot · Maurice Vinot

Plot Although Feuillade had already shown himself quite capable of working outside the proscenium arch, he emphasizes it here, not just with exterior, but interior masking: notice, if you will, high...

Direction Romeo Bosetti · Louis Feuillade

Cast Renée Carl

Plot A beautiful young woman walking home from visiting the shops. Causes more than enough problems for every man she passes, who stop to admire her beauty.

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast Marcel Lévesque · Musidora · René Poyen · Stacia Napierkowska

Plot The artist awakens. His maid brings him a letter from the Gaumont Studio. After a quick glance to it, he hastens to get dressed and runs to the studio followed...

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast Renée Carl · Marthe Vinot · Paul Manson · Jean Toulout

Plot The rich Mme. Berre keeps two lionesses and a lion in the conservatory of her house. When she fires a servant for mistreating the animals, he decides to have his...

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast René Poyen · Edmund Breon · Jeanne Saint-Bonnet

Plot One night, Bout-de-Zan finds a wanderer and shares his bed to him. The next morning there is a general panic among the servants…