Movies Similar to GAUMONT Le Cinéma Premier 1897-1913 Volume 1

Faust(1926)

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

Mistress of a Foreigner(1930)

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno(2009)

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.

L'étoile du génie(1914)

Shin Yotsuya Kaidan(1914)

Yotsuya Kaidan(1915)

Yotsuya Kaidan (Jitsoroku Oiwa)(1918)

The Little Girl's Wrong(1922)

In order to conquer Margaretella with expensive presents, a young man called Tore steals his mother's jewels but Margaretella seems to prefer Carluccio who challenges Tore to a duel and wounds him. Forgiven by his mother just before she dies, Tore takes revenge by killing Margaretella, but even in prison he can't stop thinking to his victim.

In Search of Mother(1931)

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried that she might be living in misery, he saves his money to help, only to find that she has married into wealth and social position and has no intention of seeing her outcast Yakuza son...

The Beautiful Leukanida(1912)

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

The Golden Wedding(1911)

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.

The Witch of Gric(1920)

A young countess, Nera Keglević, is fighting against believing in witches by using witchcraft. But the problem is that local judge Krajačić is accusing Nera to be witch for revenge.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1923)

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

The Mountain Bandit(1927)

Rakkauden kaikkivalta – Amor omnia(1922)

Örn, an aging countess, reminisces on the tragic fate of the young lovers, Carl-Johan Örn and Margareta by the family grave.

Yotsuya Kaidan(1927)

Forgotten Faces(1928)

A petty thief who robs the very rich at speakeasies, and gets away with it because the rich don't want the bad publicity, is finally caught and sent to Sing Sing. After good behavior, he gets an emergency permission for a return home, so that he may save his daughter from the hands of her disreputable mother. However, he must first promise not to kill his wife while he is out of prison.

Shin Yotsuya Kaidan(1925)

Irohagana Yotsuya Kaidan(1927)

Den Russiske Længdesvømmer Romantschenko Ved Langelinie(1913)

Swimming. The Russian swimmer Romantschenko visits Copenhagen. He jumps into the water and swims around in the harbor, and he is later seen together with journalist Anker Kirkeby.