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...

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

A talented painter spends his vacation in Arles, where he paints a portrait of a beautiful Arlesian woman with whom he falls in love. The young girl...

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...

Louise, a young seamstress, has fallen in love with Julien, her neighbor, a composer who leads a bohemian lifestyle with his friends, who are artists...

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928

A wacky scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect, he tries...

French silent film by Abel Gance. Considered lost.

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

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

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.

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

Le fou de la falaise is a 1916 silent film

A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).

La digue is a 1911 silent film

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...

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