Abel Gance Movies

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Abel Gance

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Abel Gance

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for...

Genre: War

Cast: Fernand Gravey

French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edwige Feuillère

Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role:...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fernand Gravey

A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Milton

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Séverin-Mars

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Séverin-Mars

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale...

Genre: War

Cast: Romuald Joubé

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Mondy

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Mondy

France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are...

Genre: History

Cast: Silvana Pampanini

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Victor Francen

A journalist attempt to stop a mysterious criminal : "Barbe rousse".

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Cast: Léon Mathot

A journalist attempt to stop a mysterious criminal : "Barbe rousse".

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Cast: Léon Mathot

Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: José Ferrer

Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: José Ferrer

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928

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Le périscope is a 1928 film

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Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Le périscope is a 1928 film

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Cast: Albert Dieudonné

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

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Cast: Louise Colliney

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

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Cast: Louise Colliney

Le fou de la falaise is a 1916 silent film

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Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Le fou de la falaise is a 1916 silent film

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Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Guards are posted to protect various important figures who are threatened with a phone call, that by 10 p.m. the following night they will be...

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Cast: Doriani

Guards are posted to protect various important figures who are threatened with a phone call, that by 10 p.m. the following night they will be...

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Cast: Doriani

Un drame au château d'Acre is a 1915 silent short

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yvonne Briey

Un drame au château d'Acre is a 1915 silent short

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yvonne Briey

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

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Cast: Yvonne Briey

La digue is a 1911 silent film

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Cast: Robert Lévy

La digue is a 1911 silent film

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Cast: Robert Lévy

Le portrait de Mireille is a 1909 short film

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Cast: Fabienne Fabrèges

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Linder

A scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emmy Lynn

A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).

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Cast: André Bacqué

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antonin Artaud

Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viviane Romance

Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viviane Romance

Composer Enrid Damor knows nothing of the past life of his new wife Eve Dinant : she lived as a debauchee with an adventurer, Fred Ryce. Fred Ryce...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Séverin-Mars

Composer Enrid Damor knows nothing of the past life of his new wife Eve Dinant : she lived as a debauchee with an adventurer, Fred Ryce. Fred Ryce...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Séverin-Mars

A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his money.Her lover, who has made a fortune away in...

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Cast: Paul Vermoyal

Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed twice in 1953, first in Argentina, then in France....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yvonne Printemps

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Séverin-Mars

A scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Moore's 1937 American movie vehicle When You're in...

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Cast: Grace Moore

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are...

Genre: History

Cast: Silvana Pampanini

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Linder

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Linder

Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

Magirama version, which is one of the four segments of the Magirama program, designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel...

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A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Bell

Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Bell

A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his money.Her lover, who has made a fortune away in...

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Cast: Paul Vermoyal

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antonin Artaud

The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a married woman by attempting to compromise and ruin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jules Berry

Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both...

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Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fabienne Fabrèges

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Séverin-Mars

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale...

Genre: War

Cast: Romuald Joubé

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for...

Genre: War

Cast: Fernand Gravey

A mad sculptor, searching for the perfect realization of "the mask of horror", places himself in front of a mirror after smearing blood over himself...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Édouard de Max

Didier Méreuil, affectionately called Poliche, is in love with Rosine, a beautiful girl, so he does everything to please her. She does not...

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Cast: Constant Rémy

A mad sculptor, searching for the perfect realization of "the mask of horror", places himself in front of a mirror after smearing blood over himself...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Édouard de Max

Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both...

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Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Film by Abel Gance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrée Brabant

Hopson, a prestigious scientist, studies the effect of snake venom to cure many diseases of mankind. His son enlists in the army when the Great War...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Doriani

Hopson, a prestigious scientist, studies the effect of snake venom to cure many diseases of mankind. His son enlists in the army when the Great War...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Doriani

Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emmy Lynn

A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Milton

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Victor Francen

Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role:...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fernand Gravey

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Cast: Jacques Grétillat

A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Vattier

French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edwige Feuillère

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale...

Genre: War

Cast: Romuald Joubé

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Werner Krauß

Film by Abel Gance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrée Brabant

One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Vanel

Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed twice in 1953, first in Argentina, then in France....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yvonne Printemps

Genre: History

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Genre: History

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Genre: War

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Genre: War

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Genre: War

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

Genre: History

Cast: Albert Dieudonné