Abel Gance
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1. Les gaz mortels (1916)
71 min
Dr. Hobson is a humanist scientist who studies snakes. He saves Maud, a young American girl, who is abused by Ted, a violent snake hunter. But when the First World War begins, Hobson is summoned by the French army to invent deadly gases.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Léon Mathot, Émile Keppens, Doriani, Henri Maillard
Votes: 48
2. The Torture of Silence (1917)
80 min | Drama
Sad story of an unfaithful wife and her subsequent sufferings as a mother.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Emmy Lynn, Armand Tallier, Anthony Gildès, Firmin Gémier
Votes: 154
3. La dixième symphonie (1918)
80 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Séverin-Mars, Jean Toulout, Emmy Lynn, André Lefaur
Votes: 229
4. J'accuse! (1919)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Horror, War
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.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars, Angèle Guys
Votes: 2,054
5. The Wheel (1923)
Not Rated | 417 min | Drama
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.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof, Séverin-Mars
Votes: 2,563
6. Napoleon (1927)
330 min | Biography, Drama, History
A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële, Alexandre Koubitzky
Votes: 8,800
7. La fin du monde (1931)
105 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Abel Gance, Colette Darfeuil, Sylvie Gance, Jeanne Brindeau
Votes: 353
8. End of the World (1931)
54 min | Sci-Fi
A scientist predicts that a comet is about to hit Earth. The news causes a panic, and the scientist finds himself arrested for treason.
Directors: Abel Gance, K. Ivanoff | Stars: Victor Francen, Clyde Fisher, Abel Gance, Georges Colin
Votes: 90
9. Le maître de forges (1933)
98 min | Drama, Romance
A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.
Directors: Fernand Rivers, Abel Gance | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Léon Belières, Paule Andral, Jacques Dumesnil
Votes: 27
10. La dame aux camélias (1934)
110 min | Drama, Romance
Marguerite Gautier is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hopes of a career and position ... See full summary »
Directors: Fernand Rivers, Abel Gance | Stars: Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay, Jane Marken, Lugné-Poe
Votes: 25
11. Napoléon Bonaparte (1935)
140 min | Biography, Drama
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Damia, Eugénie Buffet
Votes: 151
12. Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades (1935)
115 min | Drama
A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of Austria.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Georges Milton, Samson Fainsilber, Tania Fédor, Valentine Tessier
Votes: 24
13. Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
93 min | Drama, History, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Gabriel Gabrio, Maurice Escande, Roger Karl
Votes: 278
14. Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre (1936)
120 min
A ruined aristocrat becomes a steward for Nouveaux riches..
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Marie Bell, Pierre Fresnay, André Baugé, Marcelle Praince
Votes: 67
15. The Life and Loves of Beethoven (1936)
116 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantical hero, an accursed artist.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Jean-Louis Barrault
Votes: 316
16. I Accuse (1938)
95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A traumatized World War I veteran builds a machine to prevent war. When the government subverts his machine and a second world war seems increasingly inevitable, in desperation the inventor summons the ghosts of the war dead to protest.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance, Marcel Delaître
Votes: 660
17. Le voleur de femmes (1938)
87 min | Drama
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.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Jules Berry, Annie Ducaux, Suzanne Desprès, Jean-Max
Votes: 20
18. Louise (1939)
83 min | Musical, Romance
Louise, 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Grace Moore, Georges Thill, André Pernet, Suzanne Desprès
Votes: 80
19. Four Flights to Love (1939)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance, War
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme, Monique Rolland
Votes: 228
20. Venus of Paris (1941)
140 min | Drama, Romance
The imaginary voyage of a woman gone blind on her former lover's boat.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant, Lucienne Le Marchand, Jean Aquistapace
Votes: 148
21. Le Capitaine Fracasse (1943)
108 min | Drama
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.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Fernand Gravey, Assia Noris, Jean Weber, Roland Toutain
Votes: 212
22. La tour de Nesle (1955)
120 min | Drama, History
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Silvana Pampanini, Paul Guers, Jacques Toja
Votes: 212
23. Magirama (1956)
57 min | Drama, War
A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded the American invention of Cinerama, and... See full summary »
Directors: Abel Gance, Nelly Kaplan | Stars: Robert Vattier, Maurice Baquet
Votes: 17
24. The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
122 min | Drama, History, War
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.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Claudia Cardinale, Leslie Caron
Votes: 981
25. Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964)
145 min | Adventure
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: José Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sylva Koscina, Daliah Lavi
Votes: 243
26. Marie Tudor (1966 TV Movie)
207 min | Drama
Based on the play by Victor Hugo, portraying the rise, fall and execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I of England.
Directors: Abel Gance, Jean Chérasse | Stars: Françoise Christophe, Kathy Fraisse, Colette Bergé, Pierre Massimi
Votes: 13
27. Bonaparte and the Revolution (1971)
275 min | Drama, History
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 version.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Annabella, Antonin Artaud, Pierre Batcheff
Votes: 102
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