Abel Gance Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

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

Le périscope is a 1928 film

Le fou de la falaise is a 1916 silent film

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

French silent film by Abel Gance. Considered lost.

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...

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 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...

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

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...