Abel Gance Movies

A scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on...

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

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

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

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...

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

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

Blaise Cendrars' AUTOUR DE LA ROUE (1923), a behind-the-scenes short documenting the production.

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

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

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

Le périscope is a 1928 film

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

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

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928