Abel Gance Movies

Hopson, a prestigious scientist, studies the effect of snake venom to cure many diseases of mankind. His son enlists in the army when the Great War...

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...

Le périscope is a 1928 film

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...

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 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...

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

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".

French documentary short film.

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

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

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.