Stacia Napierkowska

The film follows the exploits of a nefarious band of master criminals led by the seductive femme fatale Irma Vep.

The artist awakens. His maid brings him a letter from the Gaumont Studio. After a quick glance to it, he hastens to get dressed and runs to the studio followed by his wife, his maid and his son, Bout-de-Zan who want a part in the movie. When he finally finds a director, a cameraman and a script, the roles were assigned to everyone and everyone is partially satisfied... (imdb)

Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis. (imdb)

It is Max's wedding night, married to the beautiful Stacia Napierkowska. He and his bride are sleeping..... and a flea keeps disturbing him. (archive.org)

Max, awakening on his wedding morning, discovers that it is close on the hour when he should be at the church. He dresses hastily, and in struggling with a refractory collar, allows his boots to be burnt by the fire. There is no time to change them, and he hastens off to the bride's house. On the way his soles part company with their uppers, and poor Max enters into negotiations with a passing labourer for the purchase of his footgear. (archive.org)

Max looks like a human being and acts like a human being and lives in an ordinary looking home and world surrounded by other ordinary human beings -- but, oh, does he gets into amusing messes! In this one, he gets attached to some flypaper in a middle-class home. His mortification is real and so is his comedy. (imdb)

The Model is a Italian short film directed by Ugo Falena.

A Italian short film by Ugo Falena & Ercole Luigi Morselli.

Max Linder finds himself obsessed with bull fighting. This seems to echo the nature of the actual man, who is reported to have mastered most of the skills that his character attempts within a rapid amount of time; when you see Max challenging a bull or several towards the end of the film, you can be quite confident that it is the real Linder triumphing out on the arena. (imdb)

Psyche, the daughter of a king, and a mortal, is so beautiful that even the God of Fame is fascinated by her charm. He hurries to tell Venus, Goddess of Beauty, that her loveliness is surpassed by a mortal. The jealousy of Venus is aroused and she orders her son, Cupid, the God of Love, to avenge the indignity. One glance at Psyche and Cupid revolts. He beseeches his mother to relent, but Venus is deaf to his pleading and swears to destroy her rival's powers.

The fictional rags-to-riches story of a dancer, her benefactor a kind-hearted old piano tutor. Like Max Ophüls, Capellani set many flms in the theatre – backstage, on stage, in the auditorium and the public.

Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy street dancer, arouses the desire of men, especially of Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of Notre Dame. The latter asks Quasimodo, the deaf and deformed bell-ringer of the cathedral, to kidnap the girl. Quasimodo, who has been adopted by Frollo and obeys his every word, captures the gypsy but she is saved thanks to Phoebus, a handsome captain, and his archers. Arrested by Phoebus, the hunchback is condemned to be flogged at the pillory.

Maxime Vermont tries to get a financial help from his father-in-law, to no avail. Deeply indebted, Maxime attempts to kill his father-in-law so that he could make quick money.

Lieutenant René de Chantenay, lured into smoking opium by a pretty sinner, struggles in vain against this fatal passion. He has accepted a rendezvous for that very evening, and neglects to obey an order from the Préfet Maritime to put to sea aboard the submarine Triton for torpedo drills. The next day, barely out of the fumes of his drunkenness, the lieutenant read in the papers that the Triton had sunk to a depth of 100 meters.