Cast: Edmond Van Daële

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné · Gina Manès · Edmond Van Daële · Antonin Artaud

Plot A biopic of Napoleon which spans approximately 16 years. It covers Napoleon's childhood, his first strategic victory (a schoolyard snowball fight), his rise through the ranks after the Revolution and...

Direction Jean Epstein

Cast Léon Mathot · Gina Manès · Edmond Van Daële · Claude Benedict

Plot Marie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and...

Direction Jean Epstein

Cast Edmond Van Daële · Suzy Pierson · Nino Constantini · René Ferté

Plot A renowned doctor and his brother live and work together until the brother falls in love with Marie, a singer, and gives up medicine to be with her. After a...

Direction Louis Delluc

Cast Ève Francis · Edmond Van Daële · Gaston Modot · Elena Sagrary

Plot In a popular cabaret in the old port of Marseille, Topinelli, the owner, and his wife Sarah fill the sailors’ glasses. Among them is Militis, Sarah’s old lover who abandoned...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Harry Baur · Jean Gabin · Robert Le Vigan · Charles Granval

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Edmonde Guy · Ernst Van Duren · Jacques Arnna · Mona Goya

Plot Brazen embrace of fashionable costume and glamour creates a witty celebration of Orientalism and cinema itself.

Direction Henri Chomette

Cast Albert Préjean · Gina Manès · Daniel Mendaille · Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Direction Gaston Ravel · Tony Lekain

Cast Marie Bell · Charles Le Bargy · Nelly Cormon · Edmond Van Daële

Plot Juliette Récamier is attached to a man who cannot be her husband because he is actually her father. Her charms and virtues attract a host of princes, officers and poets....

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Roland Toutain · Huguette Duflos · Marcel Vibert · Léon Belières

Plot A novel by Gaston Leroux (of Phantom of the Opera fame) was the source for Parfum de la Dame en Noir (Perfume of the Lady in Black). The story takes...

Direction Louis Delluc

Cast Ève Francis · Edmond Van Daële · Ginette Maddie · Philippe Hériat

Plot In a village on the banks of the Rhone river, Alban, a young farmer, is about to marry Margot. Monsieur Broc, a town hall employee, discovers his daughter is taken...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Madeleine Renaud · Suzanne Desprès · Gaby Triquet · Maximilienne

Plot A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Canada, endures the hardships of isolation and climate, and chooses between three suitors: a trapper, a farmer, and...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Edmond Van Daële · Marguerite Madys · Maurice Schutz · Berthe Jalabert

Plot Marc Verdier, a former professor and devout catholic, lives in Jerusalem near the Mount of Olives, with his crippled wife and Septime, his eccentric brother. On his part,Jean-Louis, Marc's son...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Roland Toutain · Huguette Duflos · Marcel Vibert · Edmond Van Daële

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné · Annabella · Antonin Artaud · Pierre Batcheff

Plot 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 1965 and 1971, and with...

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Jean Gabin · Madeleine Renaud · Robert Le Vigan · Edmond Van Daële

Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Gaby Morlay · Charles Vanel · Madame Ahnar · Delphine Abdala

Plot Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who encourages her aspirations at performing, a married fisherman, and...

Direction Léon Poirier

Cast Laurence Myrga · Edmond Van Daële · Charles Norville · Marcelle Souty

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné · Gina Manès · Damia · Eugénie Buffet

Plot A reedited version of Abel Gance's silent masterpiece 'Napoléon vu par Abel Gance', with sound effects added, dialogue post-dubbed, and with new scenes filmed with additional new cast members. The...

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Hans Stüwe · Renée Héribel · Alfred Abel · Ivan Koval-Samborsky

Plot Graf Cagliostro was the official title of this far-from-accurate biopic. According to the official records, 17th-century Italian mesmerist Cagliostro was a charlatan and a thief -- and, indeed, was interpreted...

Direction Léo Joannon

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Jean Chevrier · Georges Lannes · Foun-Sen

Plot A woman who loves jewels is a gangster's lover. When he takes her precious necklace, she gives him away to the police. Fearing his vengeance, she sails away to South...