Le fou de la falaise

Le fou de la falaise

Le fou de la falaise is a 1916 silent film

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The Torture of Silence

The Torture of Silence

Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your...

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Au Secours !

Au Secours !

Max accepts a wager that he cannot remain in a haunted castle for one hour (11 PM to midnight) without crying for help. As soon as he arrives he...

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Napoleon at St. Helena

Napoleon at St. Helena

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

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The Queen and the Cardinal

The Queen and the Cardinal

A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of...

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Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia

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

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Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

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...

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The Woman Thief

The Woman Thief

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...

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Louise

Louise

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...

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The Right to Life

The Right to Life

A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his money.Her lover, who has made a fortune away in...

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Molière

Molière

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

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Napoléon Bonaparte

Napoléon Bonaparte

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

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L'infirmière

L'infirmière

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

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Barberousse

Barberousse

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

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Poliche

Poliche

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

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L'énigme de dix heures

L'énigme de dix heures

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...

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The Mask of Horror

The Mask of Horror

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

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I Accuse! [Magirama]

I Accuse! [Magirama]

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

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Blind Venus

Blind Venus

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 during...

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Mater Dolorosa

Mater Dolorosa

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

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