Abel Gance Movies

Le portrait de Mireille is a 1909 short film

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

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.

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

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

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

Le périscope is a 1928 film

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

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

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

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

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928

French silent film by Abel Gance. Considered lost.

French documentary short film.