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A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming...
The Passion of Joan of Arc
One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully...
Mater Dolorosa
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying,...
Wooden Crosses
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his...
Napoleon
Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who pretends to be a doctor of law. They become...
L'enfant de ma soeur
Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
Faubourg Montmartre
A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.
Verdun, memories of history
In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is doing his military service there.
Sidonie Panache
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one...
Lucrezia Borgia
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
The Threepenny Opera
During a trip to Naples, a young French man falls in love with a fisherman's granddaughter, Graziella. They are separated when he must return to...
Graziella
Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your...
The Torture of Silence
Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. The 1927 run of the play saw five...
Mathusalem
Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral and Olaf Fjord....
Tarakanova
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and severe close-ups offering dense montages...
News Item
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is...
Crimson Dynasty
Based on Charles Cunat's novel, Surcouf tells a romanticized version of the life story of Robert Surcouf, a French privateer and slave trader who...
Surcouf
Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both...
Bonaparte et la révolution
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
L'Argent
Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a night of pogrom in the Warsaw ghetto a...
Le Juif Errant
A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the...
La Femme d'une nuit
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the...
Liliom
Émile en ce miroir
A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the rubble of the hateful counter between actor and...
Seans : hommage á Antonin Artaud
A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
Napoléon Bonaparte
A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.
Verdun: Visions of History
A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".
Around the End of the World
Napoléon vu par Abel Gance - Première partie : La jeunesse de Bonaparte
Napoléon vu par Abel Gance - Deuxième partie : Napoléon et la Révolution française
A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin police are on the trail of the mysterious leader....
Coup de feu à l'aube
An eight part ciné-novel (episodic film) set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the Dauphin's childhood in Versailles, his...
The Child King