Abel Gance Movies

Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between...

The life and work of Abel Gance as told by himself. Includes extracts from many of his films and considers his contribution to the cinema.

La digue is a 1911 silent film

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she...

Le périscope is a 1928 film

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

Didier Méreuil, affectionately called Poliche, is in love with Rosine, a beautiful girl, so he does everything to please her. She does not...

Le fou de la falaise is a 1916 silent film

A color test film of the Proterama process created by Abel Gance.

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...

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

This documentary focuses on the making of the 235-minute, silent epic Napoleon, the masterpiece of French director/writer/actor Abel Gance. Napoleon...

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

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

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

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...

One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.

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...

Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your...

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...