Max Linder Movies

Pioneering comedy legend Max Linder wrote, produced, directed and starred in Seven Years Bad Luck. Hilarious misadventures begin when Max' butler,...

In this one, [Max] is on vacation and wooing a young lady, but she and her cousin decide to play a trick on him, by getting him inside a barrel, and...

Max accepts a wager that he cannot remain in a haunted castle for one hour (11 PM to midnight) without crying for help. As soon as he arrives he...

Max proposes to a lady. Inexplicably, she insists she won’t marry him until he learns to juggle. At this news, Max goes home and tries to learn...

Max is invited to join his uncle for a holiday, but he hasn't invited his wife, so he sneaks her in in his suitcase, always hiding her from his...

When Max, a newly married man, suspects that his wife may be cheating on him, he gives his faithful dog Dick orders to keep on eye on her when he's...

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

In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder). They begin 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....

Polichinelle the servant (called Harlequin in the English language version) rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have...

Max is about to make his first call upon a young lady, the daughter of distinguished parents, and he wants to make a good impression. As he dresses...

A love sick Max fly to find his love and recover.

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

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

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

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...

Max suffers from drunkenness, but gets serious after he falls for the daughter of a circus director - who forbids her romance with an outsider.

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

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