Lucien Bataille Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

Directed by Henri Fescourt.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

Just as the streets to hell, to hear it from the travelers, are paved with good intentions, the illustrious police officer Zigoto's brain is full of...

An early Gaumont short

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

The film begins with the Count giving an actress a necklace. However, after her performance, the valuable necklace is missing and so the actress goes...

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

A French comedy short with Zigoto.

A man, tired of being hit by his wife, finds an ad for a spiked vest to protect him - but will it protect others from him?

A mine owner discovers a vein of gold but unfortunately dies. His wife doesn't want to sell the mine and so the forman decides to lock her up in a...