Movies: Abel Gance
- 1928
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
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A stranger called Allan goes to the House of Usher. He is the sole friend of Roderick Usher, who lives in the eerie house with his sick wife Madeleine. When she dies, Roderick does not accept her death, and in the dark night, Madeleine returns....
- 1954
Queen Margot (1954)
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Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill t...
- 1923
La Roue (1923)
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Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage....
- 1927
Napoleon (1927)
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A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political s...
- 1919
J'accuse (1919)
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The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war....
- 1939
Paradis perdu (1939)
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In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he be...
- 1935
Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
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French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families....
- 1938
I Accuse (1938)
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After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government ...
- 1960
The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
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Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802....
- 1935
Napoléon Bonaparte (1935)
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A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound....
- 1931
End of the World (1931)
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The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster....
- 1943
Captain Fracasse (1943)
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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: that of Captain Fracasse....
- 1938
The Woman Thief (1938)
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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 ruin the husband she is happy with....
- 1963
Abel Gance, Yesterday and Tomorrow (1963)
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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....
- 1912
A Tragic Love of Mona Lisa (1912)
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- 1924
Au Secours ! (1924)
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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 encounters strange and nightmarish visions, but he is nevertheless on the verge of winning the bet when a...
- 1955
Tower of Lust (1955)
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France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their ...
- 1939
Louise (1939)
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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 in Love had been directed by Josef Von Sternberg; two years later, her French starrer Louise was helmed ...
- 1933
The Ironmaster (1933)
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A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband....
- 1915
The Madness of Dr. Tube (1915)
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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 his assistant, a dog, himself and two young couples....