Abel Gance Movies

Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France...

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she...

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...

French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one...

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

A stranger called Allan goes to the House of Usher. He is the sole friend of Roderick Usher, who lives in the eerie house with his sick wife...

What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Moore's 1937 American movie vehicle When You're in...

La digue is a 1911 silent film

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

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

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

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

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...

France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are...

Le périscope is a 1928 film

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.

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

Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.