Lucien Bataille

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in...

Two hearing protection product sales reps have mixed fortunes in the exercise of their trades. They first have to face a female singer who... slams...

During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal...

Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

The Bread Peddler is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by René Le Somptier and starring Suzanne Desprès, Gabriel Signoret and...

Charming Mimi-Trottin is in love with typographer Louis Chausson, nicknamed Godasse. She meets Doudou, actually a Vicomte, estranged with his parents...

An ape, turned near human by Dr. Coriolis and given the name 'Balaoo', is smitten by the beauty of Coriolis' niece, Madeleine. Being inquisitive,...

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female...

The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is soon suspected of being the devil.

Just as the streets to hell, to hear it from the travelers, are paved with good intentions, the illustrious police officer Zigoto's brain is full of...

Just as the streets to hell, to hear it from the travelers, are paved with good intentions, the illustrious police officer Zigoto's brain is full of...

Once Mme. Ducordon discovers the joys of a new fashionable dance, she starts performing it wherever she happens to be.

In the grip of passionate foreplay, Zigoto and his lover are oblivious to an escalating series of interruptions and catastrophes going on around...

When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive.

Over-stimulated by boxing lessons, Gavroche brings a lion home to spar with, triggering an all-out assault on public order.

The film begins with the Count giving an actress a necklace. However, after her performance, the valuable necklace is missing and so the actress goes...

A French comedy short with Zigoto.

A man, tired of being hit by his wife, finds an ad for a spiked vest to protect him - but will it protect others from him?

An early Gaumont short

The short by Jean Durand begins with his frequent character, Zigoto (Lucien Bataille) reading a boring book. So, instead he goes on an outing in his...

For some time now, Sosthène, clerk at the Grand Laundromat of Papillon-sous-Bois, has been in love with Alphonsine, the girl who brings the...

A mine owner discovers a vein of gold but unfortunately dies. His wife doesn't want to sell the mine and so the forman decides to lock her up in a...

A mine owner discovers a vein of gold but unfortunately dies. His wife doesn't want to sell the mine and so the forman decides to lock her up in a...

Lucien Bataille finds himself hired as a secretary to an elderly man. His principal duty is to make sure that the man's niece, Berthe Dagmar, doesn't...

Lucien Bataille is hired as security for the department store, and proceeds to wreck much of it to keep anyone from from stealing anything.

Berthe Dagmar is kidnapped and Lucien Bataille is almost immediately on the case: examining the road with a magnifying glass, putting a straw hat on...

Directed by Henri Fescourt.

A woman enters a nightclub and slowly begins to open herself up.

An eight part ciné-novel (episodic film) set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the Dauphin's childhood in Versailles, his...