Abel Gance Movies

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

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

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

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...

A talented painter spends his vacation in Arles, where he paints a portrait of a beautiful Arlesian woman with whom he falls in love. The young girl...

Blaise Cendrars' AUTOUR DE LA ROUE (1923), a behind-the-scenes short documenting the production.

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

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

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

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

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:...

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

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...

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

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...

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent...

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...

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