Movie Database

Movies by Director - Abel Gance (50 [Missing: 29])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
La digueNA1911 Drama,Short Not Available
Il y a des pieds au plafondNA1912 \N Not Available
The Mask of HorrorNA1912 Horror,Short Not Available
Le nègre blancNA1912 \N Not Available
La pierre philosopheNA1912 \N Not Available
La fleur des ruinesNA1915 \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.1915Abel GanceComedy,Sci-Fi,Short5.5 (415 votes)620220822
The Heroism of PaddyNA1915 \N Not Available
Strass et CompagnieNA1915 \N Not Available
Un drame au château d'AcreNA1915 Drama,Short Not Available
L'énigme de dix heuresNA1915 \N Not Available
Ce que les flots racontentNA1916 \N Not Available
Le droit à la vieNA1917 \N Not Available
FiorituresNA1916 \N Not Available
Le fou de la falaiseNA1916 \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.1916Abel Gance\N6.1 (29 votes)7120211228
Le périscopeNA1916 \N Not Available
BarberousseNA1917 \N Not Available
Torture of Silence, The [Mater dolorosa]Sad story of an unfaithful wife and her subsequent sufferings as a mother.1917Abel GanceDrama6.4 (130 votes)8020211228
The Zone of DeathNA1917 \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 lea1918Abel GanceDrama5.9 (188 votes)8020220414
Ecce HomoNA1918 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.1919Abel GanceDrama,Horror,War7.7 (1.7K votes)16620211228
J' AccuseNA1919 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 winni1924Abel GanceComedy,Horror,Mystery6.9 (414 votes)1820211228
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.1923Abel GanceDrama7.5 (2.2K votes)41720211228
NapoleonA film about the French general's youth and early military career.1927Abel GanceBiography,Drama,History8.2 (7.7K votes)33020211228
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 internation1931Abel GanceDrama,Sci-Fi6.1 (294 votes)5420211228
Mater dolorosaNA1933 \N Not Available
La dame aux caméliasNA1934 Drama,Romance Not Available
End of the WorldNA1931 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...1935Abel GanceBiography,Drama7.9 (151 votes)14020240515
PolicheNA1934 Drama Not Available
The Queen and the CardinalNA1935 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 attempt1935Abel GanceDrama,History,Romance6.0 (257 votes)9320211228
Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvreNA1936 \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.1936Abel GanceBiography,Drama,Music6.9 (286 votes)11620211228
The Woman ThiefNA1938 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, bu1938Abel GanceDrama,Horror,Sci-Fi7.0 (546 votes)9520211228
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 bel1939Abel GanceMusical,Romance6.7 (70 votes)8320211228
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 o1939Abel GanceDrama,Romance,War7.0 (191 votes)8220211228
Blind Venus [Vénus aveugle]The imaginary voyage of a woman gone blind on her former lover's boat.1941Abel GanceDrama,Romance7.1 (128 votes)14020211228
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.1943Abel GanceDrama6.6 (176 votes)10820220723
Quatorze juilletNA1953 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 1955Abel GanceDrama,History6.0 (185 votes)12020211228
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.1960Abel GanceDrama,History,War6.3 (755 votes)12220211228
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.1964Abel GanceAdventure6.5 (222 votes)14520211228
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...1971Abel GanceDrama,History7.4 (102 votes)27520240515
MagiramaNA1956 Drama,War Not Available
Marines et cristauxNA1928 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.1966Abel Gance, Jean ChérasseDrama7.8 (14 votes)20720240727