Antonin Artaud

Napoleon

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is st...

The Passion of Joan of Arc

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teen...

L'Argent

Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in P...

Napoléon Bonaparte

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

The Threepenny Opera

The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.

Liliom

Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who...

Wooden Crosses

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his com...

Verdun: Visions of History

A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, s...

Bonaparte et la révolution

Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with n...

Lucrezia Borgia

French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and...

Faubourg Montmartre

This is the story of two sisters: one of them is a semi-whore with her pimp, the other one tries to walk the li...

Mater Dolorosa

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous...

Crimson Dynasty

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lo...

La Femme d'une nuit

A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night...

Verdun, memories of history

A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.

Tarakanova

Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule...

The Torture of Silence

A doctor, specialist in pediatrics, has no time for his wife Marthe. She seeks solace in the arms of his brothe...

News Item

An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and se...

Graziella

During a trip to Naples, a young French man falls in love with a fisherman's granddaughter, Graziella. They are...

Sidonie Panache

In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is do...

Surcouf

Based on Charles Cunat's novel, Surcouf tells a romanticized version of the life story of Robert Surcouf, a Fre...

Le Juif Errant

Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a n...

L'enfant de ma soeur

Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who pretends to...

Disorder Is 20 Years Old

The Child King

An eight part ciné-novel (episodic film) set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the Dauphin's c...

Around the End of the World

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

Seans : hommage á Antonin Artaud

A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the rubble of t...

Imag-en cada verso

A BLACK AND WHITE FILM. A FLASH OF SOME COLOR. IMAGE IS IMAGINATION.

Émile en ce miroir

Coup de feu à l'aube

A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin police are on...

Mathusalem

Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. Th...