Pathe Freres Movies

M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.

To reassure his fans, Max Linder has been filming with his family at his place of convalescence...

Short film by Pathé frères released in 1905

An inept marching band heads off to the competition, and then celebrates their surprising victory.

In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air.

Shy Rigadin decides to visit some friends of the family, but they are called away and when out the servants play high society, dressing up and partyin...

A man believes to have scared his perpetually agitated mother-in-law to death and goes out to buy her a nice wreath.

A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

The setting is a postoffice. A well-to-do lady has brought her maid to lick the stamps. A man, the maid's love interest, is taken by the sight and, as...

Dries, a farmer and a widower, lives with his mother-in-law Grietje and his son Peter. He falls in love with Minna, a widow, and marries her despite t...

The romantic drama based on the play of the same name, depicting the life of a 17th-century French courtesan.

Commonly confused with Max ne se mariera pas

Three goddesses, Venus, Juno and Minerva each of whom claims to be the most beautiful, call a shepherd "Paris" and ask him to decide the question and...

Fernand Pradier (Gabriel Signoret) is an honest merchant and a simple person at heart who tries to make her daughter Germaine (Gabrielle Robinne) happ...

In 1572, young queen Marguerite de Valois is driven by her mother Catherine de Médicis to marry Henri de Navarre, a Protestant leader, so as to appeas...

Elegant, monocled Lucien Cazalis sees women working on the streets of Paris, and will not have it! Unlike most male chauvinist pigs, he doesn't merely...

Artist Armand Hauterive sketches Romany girl Nadette Darson. When she returns to her caravan, they start to beat her, until Hauterive pays them money...

A couple’s fight over dinner leads to spiralling domestic abuse that spreads all over town. (MoMA)

Max has just been married, but is about to be divorced, because at his marriage party he disgraced himself. Of course, the matter is a secret, but Max...

Simone has been brought up by her widowed father and Hermance, the old governess. She loves her father and worships her dead mother. But nobody has ev...