Lucien Bataille Movies

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

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...

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

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

Thematic anthology of : Le retour a la Maison (1923) by Man Ray; Emak-Bakia (1926) by Man Ray; L'Etoile de Mer (1928) by Man Ray; Les Mysteres Du...

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

An early Gaumont short

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.

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

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...

A French comedy short with Zigoto.

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Directed by Henri Fescourt.

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...