Screenplay: Abel Gance

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 Abel Gance

Cast Romuald Joubé · Séverin-Mars · Maryse Dauvray · Maxime Desjardins

Plot 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 becomes...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Séverin-Mars · Ivy Close · Gabriel de Gravon · Pierre Magnier

Plot Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (whom Sisif rescued from a train crash when a baby and raised as his daughter), with...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Victor Francen · Line Noro · Marie Lou · Jean-Max

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Max Linder · Jean Toulout · Gina Palerme · Gaston Modot

Plot 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 encounters...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Emmy Lynn · Firmin Gémier · Armand Tallier · Anthony Gildès

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Harry Baur · Annie Ducaux · Jany Holt · André Nox

Plot 1801, in Vienna, two young women, his pupils, are in love with him. Thérèse de Brunswick's love remains unrequited even though she and Beethoven are engaged for years; Juliette Guicciardi,...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Jack Palance · Orson Welles · Rossano Brazzi

Plot Thirty-three years after his epic "Napoleon," director Abel Gance returned to the life of the Little Corporal with this look at the decisive 1805 conflict between French forces and the...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Séverin-Mars · Jean Toulout · Emmy Lynn · André Lefaur

Plot 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 meets Damor's...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Victor Francen · Colette Darfeuil · Abel Gance · Jeanne Brindeau

Plot As a comet speeds along on a collision course with Planet Earth, the world prays for a miracle. Scientist Victor Francen races against time to avoid the cataclysm, while Francen's...

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast André Bacqué · Abel Gance · Mary Brunel · Madeleine Sézanne

Plot On a script by young Abel Gance who even plays the role of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Moliére, this is the first important film by Léonce Perret at Gaumont....

Direction Abel Gance

Cast José Ferrer · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Sylva Koscina · Daliah Lavi

Direction Fernand Rivers · Abel Gance

Cast Yvonne Printemps · Pierre Fresnay · Jane Marken · Lugné-Poe

Plot Marguerite Gautier is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hopes...

Direction Lupu Pick

Cast Werner Krauss · Hanna Ralph · Albert Basserman · Philippe Hériat

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Gabriel Gabrio · Roger Karl · Maurice Escande

Plot At the end of the 15th Century, Rome is ruled ruthlessly by power mad and sex hungry Cesare Borgia, the eldest son of Pope Alexander VI. Following the advice of...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Fernand Gravey · Elvire Popesco · André Alerme · Monique Rolland

Plot 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 designing clothes, and he and...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Grace Moore · Georges Thill · André Pernet · Suzanne Desprès

Plot Louise, a young seamstress, has fallen in love with Julien, her neighbor, a composer who lives a Bohemian life with his friends, artists like him. Her over-possessive working class parents...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Marie Bell · Marcelle Praince · Pauline Carton · Marthe Mellot

Plot A young aristocrat,the Marquis De Champcey,is completely broke.So he's got to work,which is decay for those who have blue blood in their veins.Undaunted ,he becomes a steward for Nouveaux riches..In...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Andrée Brabant · Julien Clément · Anthony Gildès · Léon Mathot