Movies

An epic dramatisation that opens in 1801 Vienna, two of Beethoven's young pupils fall in love with him, before focusing on his unrequited and tragic...

Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troupe en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role:...

A father falls in love with his son's mistress whom he has forced to emigrate to force him to break up. More carefree than a schoolboy, he ruins...

After serving in the trenches of the Great War, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in...

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...

The Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are both in love with Genevieve. Jean, an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, does not want...

A young student on vacation falls in love with the daughter of his hostess. The father, who has come to put an end to the beginning idyll, falls in...

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.