Movies by Director - Abel Gance (50 [Missing: 29]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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La digueNA | 1911 | | Drama,Short | | | Not Available |
Il y a des pieds au plafondNA | 1912 | | \N | | | Not Available |
The Mask of HorrorNA | 1912 | | Horror,Short | | | Not Available |
Le nègre blancNA | 1912 | | \N | | | Not Available |
La pierre philosopheNA | 1912 | | \N | | | Not Available |
La fleur des ruinesNA | 1915 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Madness of Dr. Tube, The [La folie du Docteur Tube]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. | 1915 | Abel Gance | Comedy,Sci-Fi,Short | 5.5 (415 votes) | 6 | 20220822 |
The Heroism of PaddyNA | 1915 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Strass et CompagnieNA | 1915 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Un drame au château d'AcreNA | 1915 | | Drama,Short | | | Not Available |
L'énigme de dix heuresNA | 1915 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Ce que les flots racontentNA | 1916 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Le droit à la vieNA | 1917 | | \N | | | Not Available |
FiorituresNA | 1916 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Le fou de la falaiseNA | 1916 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Gaz mortels, LesA 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. | 1916 | Abel Gance | \N | 6.1 (29 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Le périscopeNA | 1916 | | \N | | | Not Available |
BarberousseNA | 1917 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Torture of Silence, The [Mater dolorosa]Sad story of an unfaithful wife and her subsequent sufferings as a mother. | 1917 | Abel Gance | Drama | 6.4 (130 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
The Zone of DeathNA | 1917 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Tenth Symphony, The [La dixième symphonie]Composer Enrid Damor knows nothing of the past life of his new wife Eve Dinant : she lived as a debauchee with an adventurer, Fred Ryce. Fred Ryce meets Damor's daughter, Claire, and tries to marries her. He blackmails Eve. Enric lea | 1918 | Abel Gance | Drama | 5.9 (188 votes) | 80 | 20220414 |
Ecce HomoNA | 1918 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
J' AccuseThe 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. | 1919 | Abel Gance | Drama,Horror,War | 7.7 (1.7K votes) | 166 | 20211228 |
J' AccuseNA | 1919 | | | | | Not Available |
Help! [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 encounters strange and nightmarish visions, but he is nevertheless on the verge of winni | 1924 | Abel Gance | Comedy,Horror,Mystery | 6.9 (414 votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
Wheel, The [La roue]A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage. | 1923 | Abel Gance | Drama | 7.5 (2.2K votes) | 417 | 20211228 |
NapoleonA film about the French general's youth and early military career. | 1927 | Abel Gance | Biography,Drama,History | 8.2 (7.7K votes) | 330 | 20211228 |
End of the World [La fin du monde]The two Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are in love with the same woman, Genevieve. Jean is an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, who does not want Genevieve to share in his life of suffering. Martial is an internation | 1931 | Abel Gance | Drama,Sci-Fi | 6.1 (294 votes) | 54 | 20211228 |
Mater dolorosaNA | 1933 | | \N | | | Not Available |
La dame aux caméliasNA | 1934 | | Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
End of the WorldNA | 1931 | | Sci-Fi | | | Not Available |
Napoléon BonaparteA reedited version of Abel Gance's silent masterpiece 'Napoléon vu par Abel Gance', with sound effects added, dialogue post-dubbed, and with new scenes filmed with additional new cast members. The film recounts the life and exploi... | 1935 | Abel Gance | Biography,Drama | 7.9 (151 votes) | 140 | 20240515 |
PolicheNA | 1934 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
The Queen and the CardinalNA | 1935 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Lucrezia Borgia [Lucrece Borgia]At the end of the 15th Century, Rome is ruled ruthlessly by power mad and sex hungry Cesare Borgia, the eldest son of Pope Alexander VI. Following the advice of his chief adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to attempt | 1935 | Abel Gance | Drama,History,Romance | 6.0 (257 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvreNA | 1936 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Life and Loves of Beethoven, The [Un Grand Amour de Beethoven]Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantical hero, an accursed artist. | 1936 | Abel Gance | Biography,Drama,Music | 6.9 (286 votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
The Woman ThiefNA | 1938 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
J' AccuseAfter 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, bu | 1938 | Abel Gance | Drama,Horror,Sci-Fi | 7.0 (546 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
LouiseLouise, a young seamstress, has fallen in love with Julien, her neighbor, a composer who lives a Bohemian life with his friends, artists like him. Her over-possessive working class parents unfortunately object to her marrying her bel | 1939 | Abel Gance | Musical,Romance | 6.7 (70 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Four Flights to Love [Paradis perdu]Before World War 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 war breaks o | 1939 | Abel Gance | Drama,Romance,War | 7.0 (191 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Blind Venus [Vénus aveugle]The imaginary voyage of a woman gone blind on her former lover's boat. | 1941 | Abel Gance | Drama,Romance | 7.1 (128 votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
Captain Fracasse [Le capitaine Fracasse]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. | 1943 | Abel Gance | Drama | 6.6 (176 votes) | 108 | 20220723 |
Quatorze juilletNA | 1953 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |
Tower of Lust [La tour de Nesle]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 | 1955 | Abel Gance | Drama,History | 6.0 (185 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Battle of Austerlitz, The [Austerlitz]Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians. | 1960 | Abel Gance | Drama,History,War | 6.3 (755 votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
Cyrano et d'ArtagnanDuelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France. | 1964 | Abel Gance | Adventure | 6.5 (222 votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
Bonaparte and the Revolution [Bonaparte et la révolution] Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965 and 1971, and with sound synchronization from both the 1932 reissue and this ve... | 1971 | Abel Gance | Drama,History | 7.4 (102 votes) | 275 | 20240515 |
MagiramaNA | 1956 | | Drama,War | | | Not Available |
Marines et cristauxNA | 1928 | | Short | | | Not Available |
Marie TudorBased on the play by Victor Hugo, portraying the rise, fall and execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I of England. | 1966 | Abel Gance, Jean Chérasse | Drama | 7.8 (14 votes) | 207 | 20240727 |