Recreation of a scene from Macbeth.
Macbeth
As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble...
La Terre
At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder. The attorney left the...
Le Coupable
Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...
L'Assommoir
“The Queen of Judah has gained her throne by eliminating the Royal Princes, but one is still alive and protected by the high priest. In a dream...
Athalie
Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.
Germinal
A captain is passionate gambler, but loses and when he does not see another resort, he "borrows" from the regiment box. The money he plays up, but...
Onore riconquistato
Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her assistant. Marie's widowed mother becomes engaged to Mr....
Captain Kiddo
In the Mesh of Her Hair
The Mysteries of Paris
L'Instinct
Paul Panzer returns home from a night out with the boys at his bachelor's club. He wanders into the wrong apartment, where, of course, a young woman...
Revolution in a Bachelors' Club
The story of a free-spirited Bohemian. Capellani would remake the film in the U.S. in 1916 with a longer runtime.
La Bohème
Adapted from Hugo's eponym novel, the story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a...
Les Travailleurs de la mer
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...
Anna Karenina
On the trail of counterfeiters Detective Craig is on their trail. Suspicion falls on James Dalton who passes bad money through unsuspecting "fences."...
Detective Craig's Coup
The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
Romeo e Giulietta
Louis XI
The Count of Champcenetz is governor of the Palace of the Tuileries. His mistress Grace Elliott, a young widow, begs him not to go the Palace where...
The Escape from the Tuileries
Lord Edward Litchfield is in love with Beth, a beautiful American girl of modest descent. Lord Edward's father goes to Beth and tells her that if...
All Love Excelling
