Abel Gance Movies

French silent film by Abel Gance. Considered lost.

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

Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him...

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...

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

A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

Le fou de la falaise is a 1916 silent film

La digue is a 1911 silent film

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

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