Ferdinand Zecca Movies

A thief named Barabbas and Jesus are brought before Pilate, Pilate says Christ innocent. People say "Crucify him and deliver us Barabbas!"

A man walks down to the water's edge, takes off his clothes and prepares to go for a swim.... only to find himself fully clothed. This happens again...

Charles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to...

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

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...

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 man is chased by ten women!

The French short film recreates key moments from the Russian revolution of 1905 in Odessa.

Rendez-vous of Apaches. Bonneteur and pickpocket. Theft at the scramble. Reticle shooter. Shoplifting. Pepper stripper. The coup of Father...

Jesus enters the temple while the merchants are selling their wares. Jesus overturns the tables of the money lenders by showing them their error.

During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks...

Old gentleman stretches himself on the long seat of a French railway car, after placing numerous bundles in the rack above him, and also in the rack...

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

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

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

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

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...

Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is...

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.