Segundo de Chomón Movies

A biopic of former Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius...

A doctor finds himself infected by a deadly disease.

"Le Pied de Mouton" is an adaptation of an old French stage play titled "The Talisman" written by Alphonse Martainville and César...

A film based on Gabriele D'Annunzio's novel The Flame. Pina Menichelli plays a vamp who ruins a painter's life just for the fun of it.

Directed by Febo Mari.

Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The...

Helmed by Giovanni Pastrone, with Segundo de Chomón ably handling the stop-motion animation segment, The War and the Dream of Momi is equal...

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman. This film is a blatant remake of Georges Méliès's "La Chrysalide...

Tribute to Segundo de Chomón. Semi-documentary featuring short films and appearances by actors who explain his works, such as Inma de Santis,...

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

The devil performs his magical powers.

"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent...

The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a...

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

A Segundo de Chomón trick film.

A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.

Two contortionists, dressed as devils, invade a kitchen.