Henri Desfontaines Movies

An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.

Chichinette (Blanche Montel) is in love with a playboy named Philippe (Jean Devalde). She follows him to Paris, believing his promise of marriage,...

Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...

Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later...

A young English lord, who has been excavating in Egypt, finds a mummy of a beautiful Egyptian princess, more than 5,000 years old. So well has the...

Pathé's version of José Zorrilla's play, Don Juan Tenorio.

A considered lost film from 1913

In 1572, young queen Marguerite de Valois is driven by her mother Catherine de Médicis to marry Henri de Navarre, a Protestant leader, so as...

M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.

Kids playact war in the backyard and the adults decide to show them a documentary about World War 1.

"Sa gosse" features a realist singer played by Elmire Vautier, whose memories of the unwanted child she left in the country are invoked by the lyrics...

A anti-war film about war and children.