Max Linder Movies

A documentary with many excerpts from the films of French movie pioneer Max Linder, narrated by his daughter.

Max has been invited to meet with his in-laws and must dress formally, but each hat he attempts to wear for the occasion gets destroyed.

The adventures of Max Linder, some based on real events, some fictional, as he travels by ocean liner from France to America.

Max wants to marry his girl but one man stands in the way. Her guardian. And Max got to find a way to get him to consent.

Max and his friend, who came to visit him in Paris both fall in love with his new maid. The girl is very friendly, and while one plays the piano, she...

Max is forced to choose between losing his newly wedded wife and a fortune. He hits upon a brilliant scheme: He will give his wife grounds for a...

Max is a stage struck youth, and because of a deep-seated desire to go on the stage, refuses to consent to a marriage his father has planned for him....

Both father and son want to meet their respective romantic appointments, without the other one knowing. The film is currently considered lost.

Max Linder strays further from his usual haunts of situational comedy, far into straight slapstick as he gets into a dispute over the woman he is...

A series of comic mishaps in house boxes at a music hall.

Max has some shoes but they're a bit tight.

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

A short movie.

A young fellow, who is afflicted with a nervous disorder, gets fits of twitching, which is contagious to all within sight.

A dramatic short.

The story is simple: Max and a pretty young lady, whom he has never met before, arrive at the same time at a luxury hotel on the Riviera, each for a...

Some promotional footage shot for "Max, der Zirkuskönig".

As a struggling artist, Max is not allowed to pay attentions to a girl by her father. Max decides to win by persistency, and it is a case where...

Reminiscences of the early days of cinema and films show in music halls, including extracts. (BFI)

Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake.