List of French films before 1910
A list of the earliest films produced in the Cinema of France between 1892 and 1909 ordered by year of release. For an A-Z list of French films see :Category:French films
1890s
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
1892 | - | - | - | - |
Le Clown et ses chiens | Émile Reynaud | Animation | One of the first animated films in the world | |
Pauvre Pierrot | Émile Reynaud | Animation | One of the first animated films in the world | |
Un bon bock | Émile Reynaud | Animation | The first film to be screened using Reynaud's optical theatre | |
1895 | - | - | - | - |
L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat | Lumière brothers | Pioneer film | ||
L'Arroseur Arrosé | Louis Lumière | First film comedy | ||
Autour d'une cabine | Émile Reynaud | Animation | ||
Barque sortant du port | Louis Lumière | Documentary | ||
Les Forgerons | Louis Lumière | Documentary | ||
La Mer | Louis Lumière | Documentary | ||
Neuville-sur-Saône: Débarquement du congrès des photographes à Lyon | Louis Lumière | P.J.C. Janssen | Documentary | |
Partie de cartes | Louis Lumière | Antoine Féraud | Documentary | |
La Pêche aux poissons rouges | Louis Lumière | Documentary | ||
Place des Cordeliers à Lyon | Louis Lumière | Documentary | ||
Repas de bébé | Louis Lumière | Documentary | ||
Le Saut à la couverture | Louis Lumière | Documentary | ||
La Voltige | Louis Lumière | Documentary | ||
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory | Louis Lumière | |||
1896 | - | - | - | - |
Arrivée d'un train gare de Vincennes | Georges Méliès | |||
L'Arroseur | Georges Méliès | |||
Baignade en mer | Georges Méliès | |||
Bataille de boules de neige | Louis Lumière | Documentary | ||
Bateau-mouche sur la Seine | Georges Méliès | |||
Batteuse à vapeur | Georges Méliès | |||
Bébé et fillettes | Georges Méliès | |||
Le Bivouac | Georges Méliès | |||
Les Blanchisseuses | Georges Méliès | |||
Bois de Boulogne | Georges Méliès | |||
Boulevard des Italiens | Georges Méliès | |||
La Fée aux Choux | Alice Guy Blaché | Pioneer film | ||
Le Manoir du diable | Georges Méliès | Jeanne d'Alcy Georges Méliès | Horror | The first horror film ever made |
1897 | - | - | - | - |
Danse Serpentine | Lumiere Brothers | Papinta | ||
1898 | - | - | - | - |
Un homme de têtes | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | ||
1899 | - | - | - | - |
Illusioniste fin de siècle | Georges Méliès | |||
Jeanne d'Arc | Georges Méliès | Jeanne d'Alcy Georges Méliès |
1900s
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notes |
1900 | - | - | - | - |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Clément Maurice | Benoit Constant Coquelin | Drama | |
Le Repas fantastique | Georges Méliès | |||
Duel d'Hamlet Le | Clément Maurice | Sarah Bernhardt | ||
L'homme orchestre | Georges Méliès | |||
Madame Sans-Gêne | Clément Maurice | |||
The Two Blind Men | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | ||
1901 | - | - | - | - |
Barbe-bleue | Georges Méliès | Jeanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès | Crime / Drama | |
1902 | - | - | - | - |
The Man With The Rubber Head | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | Comedy / Fantasy | |
Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants | Georges Méliès | |||
A Trip to the Moon | Georges Méliès | Fantasy / Sci-fi | ||
1903 | - | - | - | - |
L'Auberge du Bon Repos | Georges Méliès | English:The Inn Where no Man Rests | ||
The Infernal Boiling Pot | Georges Méliès | Short, Fantasy, Horror | ||
1904 | - | - | - | - |
The Impossible Voyage | Georges Méliès | Fantasy | Pioneer in special effects | |
1905 | - | - | - | - |
Vie et Passion du Christ | Lucien Nonguet Ferdinand Zecca | Hand painted color | ||
1907 | - | - | - | - |
20,000 Lieues Sous les Mers | Georges Méliès | |||
Satan in Prison | Georges Méliès | |||
L'Enfant prodigue | Michel Carré | First European feature film |