Max Linder Movies

Max is a millionaire who is forced to lead a double-life as a waiter, the result of having lost a wager.

Max visits a lady doctor for a chest cold and is alternately anxious and nervous and excited, in a romantic and sexual way, depicted by his clever...

The film is quite sophisticated for it's time with a relatively large number of scene changes as we follow Max's misadventures. It also features a...

A man lives a normal family life during the day, but late evening he becomes a different person, taken to night-clubs and their attractions of songs...

This Max Linder short opens with him and his girl blissfully rowing in a canoe before skipping ahead two years later.

"Max quarrels so with his wife that the lady leaves him. Our hero then attempts to do his own cooking, etc. He buys a fowl, but it proves to be still...

Based on characters from Shakespeare's play: When Juliet's father refuses to let Romeo see her, Romeo resorts to extreme measures.

Max being a gentleman and helping a lady in distress. Max willingly helps the lady recover her forgotten purse before the boat they're traveling on...

A wealthy alcoholic is disowned by his father for his drunken behavior. Now penniless, he takes a job as a taxi driver, despite not knowing how to...

When Max's friends doubt his acting ability, he invites them to a dramatic theatrical performance.

Astigmatic, Max apologizes to lampposts, kisses the wrong lady, and is challenged to a duel.

Max officiates between two brawny boxers, then steps in against the cocky larger man, the acclaimed French stage director Maurice Tourneur. To gain...

Max is doing the Tango with Miss Leonora in a Berlin night club. Being impressed by the performance a german Baron asks him to give his family a...

Max is in love with a charming girl, who also is already affianced to another. Does Max despair? Never. The debonair gentleman sets his wits to work...

Max meets the Countess Duvienne in a very distressing moment, for she has just learned that her jockey will be unable to ride her horse, the favorite...

The film begins with Max being invited to dinner with his fiancée and future in-laws. To be polite, he stops on the way at a bakery to bring...

Max is late for his own wedding, and, worse yet, has no shoes.

Maurice returns out of habit in the apartment from which he has just moved and turns the lives of the new tenants upside down.

Renowned French comedian and filmmaker Max Linder visits Charlie Chaplin in 1917.