Abel Gance Movies

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...

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

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

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

To secure victory against the Ammonites, the Israeli judge Jephthah vowed to sacrifice the first person who greeted him upon his return. After...

French silent film by Abel Gance. Considered lost.

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

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

Le périscope is a 1928 film

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...

Blaise Cendrars' AUTOUR DE LA ROUE (1923), a behind-the-scenes short documenting the production.

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

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

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.

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...

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...

Eccentric Dr Tube develops a powder that he believes will distort reality for those who take it. To test it, he experiments on his boy assistant, his...

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...

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