Cast: Edmond Van Daële

Direction Abel Gance

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

Synopsis 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 his marriage to Josephine, and culminates in the Italian campaign...

Direction Jean Epstein

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

Synopsis 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 fight over Marie on two occasions, but Paul retains a...

Direction Jean Epstein

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

Synopsis 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 time however, she misses her old life and goes back...

Direction Louis Delluc

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

Synopsis 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 her before she married Topinelli. The filles de joie come...

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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. Though she becomes blind at the end of her life,...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

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

Synopsis 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 place on the Riviera, where the title character may or...

Direction Louis Delluc

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

Synopsis 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 with Alban. When he rejects her, she collapses. Suddenly, the...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Madeleine Renaud · Suzanne Desprès · Gaby Triquet · Maximilienne

Synopsis 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 an immigrant from Paris.

Direction Julien Duvivier

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

Synopsis 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 is in Paris where he continues his studies. Or so...

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

Synopsis 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 sound synchronization from both the 1932 reissue and this version.

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

Synopsis 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 that man's unmarried younger brother.

Direction Léon Poirier

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

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné · Gina Manès · Damia · Eugénie Buffet

Synopsis 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 film recounts the life and exploits of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor...

Direction Richard Oswald

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

Synopsis 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 in this fashion by Orson Welles in the 1949 film...

Direction Léo Joannon

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

Synopsis 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 Africa, where many emigrants intend to work in the mines...