Acting
If youâre already familiar with Louis Feuillade, his little-known opus VendĂ©miaire may come as a surprise. Unlike the bulk of his work which was characterised as âFantastic Realismâ, VendĂ©miaire is wonderfully down-to-earth realism â or down-to-French-earth realism to be specific. The film itself is divided into four chapters, the titles of which suggest that this is a movie about the cultivation and consumption of wine. But as the narrative unfolds, it becomes clear that the cultivation and consumption of wine is an allegory for French culture and French land as a whole, and the real purpose of the film is to persuade the directorâs fellow citizens to defend that spirit and those lands at all costs. Itâs September 1918 and the war is coming to an end, but here on the Castelviel estate in the south of France the news has not yet arrived and everyone is busy with the grape harvest....
Directed by Louis Feuillade.
silent film with Lina Cavalieri
When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengeance, punishes the crooks and protects the innocents. (Originally a twelve-part epic serial.)
Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death. The intrepid journalist Philippe Guérande and his partner embark on a long crusade to put an end to the crimes of the Great Vampire and Irma Vep, his dangerous accomplice. (A ten episode movie serial.)
Mme de CalviĂšres (Sylvia Lux) and her brother Roger (Ădouard MathĂ©), due to an unpaid debt, fall into a difficult situation.
A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.
Jacques d'Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that, unbeknownst to him, contains a coded message revealing the whereabouts of both secret treasures and sensitive government intelligence. This makes him the target of foreign spies, including a Marquise of mysterious Latin origin, a Hindu hypnotist and an evil German doctor, who will stop at nothing to obtain the book.
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A moneylender kidnaps the young son of a rich widow as part of a plot to cheat her of her fortune. The boy is sent away on a fishing boat with the intention of drowning him, but a kindly old fisherman intervenes.
Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.
The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
The Crushed Idol is a 1920 French silent drama film directed by Maurice Mariaud and starring Lina Cavalieri.
A police sergeantâs late night horn playing dismays neighbors in his apartment house, leading to marital discord, hysteria and a bizarre form of psycho-therapy involving a body double.
With the help of LĂ©vesque and Musidora, Feuillade creates a light-hearted meta-fiction, self-parodying his own work.
After falling in love with a young man (Edouard Mathé), Lilie/Lily abandoned her family and eloped, only to comes back with an illegitimate child.
