Abel Gance Movies

  • 1937
    The Life and Loves of Beethoven

    The Life and Loves of Beethoven

    The Life and Loves of Beethoven

    6.71937HD

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

    The Life and Loves of Beethoven
  • 1916
    Le périscope

    Le périscope

    Le périscope

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    Le périscope is a 1928 film

    Le périscope
  • 1933
    Mater Dolorosa

    Mater Dolorosa

    Mater Dolorosa

    01933HD

    One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully...

    Mater Dolorosa
  • 1935
    Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

    Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

    Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

    6.61935HD

    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...

    Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
  • 1943
    Captain Fracasse

    Captain Fracasse

    Captain Fracasse

    6.31943HD

    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:...

    Captain Fracasse
  • 1931
    The End of the World

    The End of the World

    The End of the World

    4.91931HD

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

    The End of the World
  • 1941
    Blind Venus

    Blind Venus

    Blind Venus

    6.11941HD

    Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France...

    Blind Venus
  • 1933
    The Ironmaster

    The Ironmaster

    The Ironmaster

    5.51933HD

    A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.

    The Ironmaster
  • 1918
    The Tenth Symphony

    The Tenth Symphony

    The Tenth Symphony

    6.41918HD

    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...

    The Tenth Symphony
  • 1939
    Louise

    Louise

    Louise

    5.31939HD

    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...

    Louise
  • 1910
    Le Portrait de Mireille

    Le Portrait de Mireille

    Le Portrait de Mireille

    51910HD

    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...

    Le Portrait de Mireille
  • 1912
    The Mask of Horror

    The Mask of Horror

    The Mask of Horror

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    A mad sculptor, searching for the perfect realization of "the mask of horror", places himself in front of a mirror after smearing blood over himself...

    The Mask of Horror
  • 1910
    Molière

    Molière

    Molière

    4.41910HD

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

    Molière
  • 1917
    The Right to Life

    The Right to Life

    The Right to Life

    01917HD

    A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his money.Her lover, who has made a fortune away in...

    The Right to Life
  • 1916
    Deadly Gas

    Deadly Gas

    Deadly Gas

    51916HD

    Hopson, a prestigious scientist, studies the effect of snake venom to cure many diseases of mankind. His son enlists in the army when the Great War...

    Deadly Gas
  • 1934
    Camille

    Camille

    Camille

    01934HD

    Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed twice in 1953, first in Argentina, then in France....

    Camille
  • 1910
    Jephté's Daughter

    Jephté's Daughter

    Jephté's Daughter

    01910HD

    Jephté's Daughter
  • 1930
    Around the End of the World

    Around the End of the World

    Around the End of the World

    4.81930HD

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

    Around the End of the World
  • 1958
    Magirama

    Magirama

    Magirama

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    A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded...

    Magirama
  • 1935
    The Queen and the Cardinal

    The Queen and the Cardinal

    The Queen and the Cardinal

    61935HD

    A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of...

    The Queen and the Cardinal