Abel Gance Movies

Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between...

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

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...

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...

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

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

Le périscope is a 1928 film

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner...

Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role:...

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

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928

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 mad sculptor, searching for the perfect realization of "the mask of horror", places himself in front of a mirror after smearing blood over himself...

Didier Méreuil, affectionately called Poliche, is in love with Rosine, a beautiful girl, so he does everything to please her. She does not...

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

Directed by Albert Capellani.

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

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.