Marcel L'Herbier Movies

Clarisse cheats on her husband with a vain insurance agent. Zamore, the cuckold (and a magician) wouldn't let his wife be stolen so easily. Poiret...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madeleine Delavaivre

Flora Nys, a poor flower girl of Paris faces hard times. Her rent overdue, Le Baron, the landlord, oppresses her and puts before her a shady...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Deslys

Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Francen

Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edwige Feuillère

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Mosjoukine

Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernand Gravey

Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Alcover

A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Roland Toutain

Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Roland Toutain

A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Roland Toutain

In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ève Francis

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...

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Cast: Michel Simon

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...

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Cast: Michel Simon

Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

Ludivine, a lttle tomboy, takes on the too polite Delphin. Being caught, and punished, she wants him and his father to be dead. When the latter dies,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Balfour

The film opens with the overthrow of the Czar during the 1917 Russian revolution. The family of General Count Svirsky (Roger Karl) cower in their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

A vamp seduces a banker and breaks with him when she's obtained all that she wanted.

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Cast: Gabriel Signoret

A vamp seduces a banker and breaks with him when she's obtained all that she wanted.

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Cast: Gabriel Signoret

The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.

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Cast: Jaque Catelain

A short by Marcel L'Herbier with music played by Claude Debussy with children's themed visuals.

Genre: Music

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By mutual agreement, a man and a woman are separated to allow the wife to join her lover.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Fernand Gravey

By mutual agreement, a man and a woman are separated to allow the wife to join her lover.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Fernand Gravey

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.

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Cast: Victor Francen

A poem to love & patriotism soon after the end of WWI. A highly original and poetic film using many experimental camera techniques, which proved too...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude-France Aïssé

Evelyne attempts to reconnect with her family after a traumatizing experience with a young writer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcelle Pradot

Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Suzanne Desprès

Crazy scientist Faust tries to take Don Juan's lover away.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gina Manès

An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and severe close-ups offering dense montages...

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Cast: Paul Barthet

An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and severe close-ups offering dense montages...

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Cast: Paul Barthet

Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a French cruising ship,...

Genre: War

Cast: Annabella

The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by...

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Cast: Emmy Lynn

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Mosjoukine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tito Schipa

A commissioned documentary short showing the effort over several years to close off a shallow bay in the northwest Netherlands from the rest of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Véra Korène

The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Véra Korène

An indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe triangle develops among the expatriates.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Richard-Willm

An indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe triangle develops among the expatriates.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Richard-Willm

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.

Genre: History

Cast: Harry Baur

A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners)....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Francen

An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère". She dreams that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère". She dreams that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

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Cast: Emmy Lynn

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Cast: Emmy Lynn

Marcel L'Herbier has always been attracted to the theme of ghosts. Its first short, of 1918, took the title of "Phantasmes" and, in its filmography,...

Genre: Documentary

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Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a French cruising ship,...

Genre: War

Cast: Annabella

The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.When she re-encounters her husband he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Denis

Flora Nys, a poor flower girl of Paris faces hard times. Her rent overdue, Le Baron, the landlord, oppresses her and puts before her a shady...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Deslys

19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence...

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Cast: Gaby Morlay

The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and...

Genre: History

Cast: Victor Francen

Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to...

Genre: History

Cast: Micheline Presle

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to...

Genre: History

Cast: Micheline Presle

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to...

Genre: History

Cast: Micheline Presle

Françoise Marinier, a strong-willed young woman, won't accept a husband being forced on her. She left her family and moved to Paris, where she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arletty

The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viviane Romance

Françoise Marinier, a strong-willed young woman, won't accept a husband being forced on her. She left her family and moved to Paris, where she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arletty

Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francesca Bertini

Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yvonne Printemps

19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence...

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Cast: Gaby Morlay

Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Suzanne Desprès

The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.

Genre:

Cast: Victor Francen

In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ève Francis

A poem to love & patriotism soon after the end of WWI. A highly original and poetic film using many experimental camera techniques, which proved too...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude-France Aïssé

After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernand Gravey

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gina Manès

During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent...

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Cast: Annabella

A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.When she re-encounters her husband he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Francen

The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Francen

Ludivine, a lttle tomboy, takes on the too polite Delphin. Being caught, and punished, she wants him and his father to be dead. When the latter dies,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Balfour

The film opens with the overthrow of the Czar during the 1917 Russian revolution. The family of General Count Svirsky (Roger Karl) cower in their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

Genre: Romance

Cast: Saint-Granier

A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francesca Bertini

Genre: Romance

Cast: Saint-Granier

Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

Crazy scientist Faust tries to take Don Juan's lover away.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaque Catelain

Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Alcover

Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yvonne Printemps

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Cast: Jaque Catelain

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Cast: Jaque Catelain

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.

Genre: History

Cast: Harry Baur

The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Roland Toutain