Abel Gance Movies

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...

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...

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928

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...

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

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...

Le fou de la falaise is a 1916 silent film

A color test film of the Proterama process created by Abel Gance.

This documentary focuses on the making of the 235-minute, silent epic Napoleon, the masterpiece of French director/writer/actor Abel Gance. Napoleon...

In August 1803, Napoleon’s police uncovered a British-backed Bourbon restoration plot implicating the Prince of Condé. Although his son,...

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.

French silent film by Abel Gance. Considered lost.

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

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

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...

La digue is a 1911 silent film