Henry Roussel Movies

In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A...

The dramatic story of a military attaché, in a European embassy who will sign a fake check, in order to recover important secret documents...

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.

Poor Arlette is married off by her well meaning mother to a supposed count who turns out to be a fake and a crook.Arlette seeks out the real count,...

A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.

Tells the tragic story of a young trapeze artist (Polaire) abandoned and found by a clown when she was a baby.

Well-to-do Simone replaces her music-hall friend Yahne when her wealthy uncle visits from America.

Ginette, a Parisian seamstress, lives poorly but happily with her musician lover. When Count la Ferronnière offers to teach her the manners...

Ginette is always squabbling with her mother and she cannot take it any more. One day, she asks Jim Ashbury to intervene and this is how the son of a...

A man does not know what fear is. His good friend dares him to spend one night in a scary place. A house of wax will get the job done.

This French film confection directed by Henry Roussell concerns two young Parisian beauties in love with same fellow (Fernand Fabre). When one of the...

Not content to be an austere judge, M. de Méricourt is also a domestic tyrant. He terrorizes his son René to such an extent that the...

A young singer at the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.

"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.

Believing that her husband is cheating on her, Jacqueline decides to take revenge and goes to find Ernest, a chilled sigh. But in her bachelor...

This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in...

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis...

The story of the children of Captain Grant.

No plot available. The director Maurice Tourneur perceived this film to be indicative of the advances French cinema could have taken had it not been...