Fantômas (1913)

All five of the pioneering early cinema serials by Louis Feuillade, about the enigmatic master criminal Fantomas (René Navarre), a dapper and mysterious figure who holds Paris in a grip of terror and commands an army of street thugs to do his nefarious bidding. Facing him is his nemesis, Inspector Juve (Edmund Breon), who will stop at nothing to bring the criminal genius down. Episodes are: 'Fantomas in the Shadow of the Guillotine'; 'Juve versus Fantomas'; 'The Murderous Corpse'; 'Fantomas versus Fantomas'; and 'The False Judge'.