Abel Gance Movies

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

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

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

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

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...

Magirama version, which is one of the four segments of the Magirama program, designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel...

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...

La digue is a 1911 silent film

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 film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).

Le périscope is a 1928 film

A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".

Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him...

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...

Un drame au château d'Acre is a 1915 silent short

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

Guards are posted to protect various important figures who are threatened with a phone call, that by 10 p.m. the following night they will be...

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

Le portrait de Mireille is a 1909 short film