Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance
Cast
Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof
Plot
A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Horror • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance
Cast
Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars
Plot
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 becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Horror • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance, Steve Passeur
Cast
Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance
Plot
A traumatized World War I veteran builds a machine to prevent war. When the government subverts his machine and a second world war seems increasingly inevitable, in desperation the inventor summons the ghosts of the war dead to pr...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance, Max Linder
Cast
Max Linder, Jean Toulout, Gina Palerme
Plot
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 encounters strange and nightmarish visions, but he is nevertheless on the verge of wi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Jean Boyer, Camille Flammarion, Abel Gance
Cast
Abel Gance, Colette Darfeuil, Sylvie Gance
Plot
The two Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are in love with the same woman, Genevieve. Jean is an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, who does not want Genevieve to share in his life of suffering. Martial is an internat...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: France, Italy • Language: French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance, Nelly Kaplan, Roger Richebé
Cast
Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Joseph Than, Steve Passeur, Abel Gance
Cast
Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Plot
Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until war break...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance, Léopold Marchand, Alfred Schirokauer
Cast
Edwige Feuillère, Gabriel Gabrio, Maurice Escande
Plot
At the end of the 15th Century, Rome is ruled ruthlessly by power mad and sex hungry Cesare Borgia, the eldest son of Pope Alexander VI. Following the advice of his chief adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to atte...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Gian Bistolfi, Abel Gance, Théophile Gautier
Cast
Fernand Gravey, Assia Noris, Jean Weber
Plot
Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance
Cast
Séverin-Mars, Jean Toulout, Emmy Lynn
Plot
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 meets Damor's daughter, Claire, and tries to marries her. He blackmails Eve. Enric ...
