Edmond van Daële
Actor · 1884 – 1960 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Movies23
- Movie9.0Drama
Michel Corbier, a widower, remarries Madeleine. His children, Lalie and Jo, see her as their second mother and call her "Nène."
Nène
1924 · 1 votes
Movie7.8DramaHistoryA biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Movie6.0DramaAfter the death of her mother, Germaine moves in with her father in a small town near the Rhône river. She falls in love with a young man, Alban, already engaged.
Movie8.7DramaWarA second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
Napoléon Bonaparte
1935 · 3 votes
Movie7.4HistoryAdventureThe final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is decided that he must be captured, tried, and executed as a criminal, a plan aided and abetted by disciple Judas Iscariot.
Golgotha
1935 · 8 votes
Movie7.0A family of strict magistrates holds firm in protecting one of their members,who commits an error which provokes a storm of outrage.
Les Roquevillard
1922 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaHistoryThe film displays Madame Récamier 's conflict with Napoleon. Twice she was pressed to become one of the Empress's ladies. In revenge for her refusal Napoleon declined to save her husband from ruin.
Madame Récamier
1928 · 1 votes
Movie7.0AdventureBrazen embrace of fashionable costume and glamour creates a witty celebration of Orientalism and cinema itself.
Princesse Mandane
1928 · 2 votes
Movie4.8DramaAdventureParis, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
Cagliostro
1929 · 9 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
Sables
1928 · 1 votes
Movie5.5DramaMilitis, a sailor, returns to a bar where he finds Sarah, the girl he once loved and is still attracted to. However, he is now married to an exotic woman who took care of him during an illness.
Fièvre
1921 · 19 votes
Movie5.8DramaLoosely based on Balzac's novel "La peau de chagrin", the story revolves around a man who steals a small, magical figurine named Narayana.
Narayana
1920 · 5 votes
- Movie10.0
La croisade
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaA religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself. His mind becomes distraught as he gropes trying to rationalize his deed and his world falls apart around him. A police inspector patiently and tirelessly stays on Barrault's trail, without putting him under arrest, though convinced he is the murderer, and waiting for the moment when he feels Barrault will break under the strain of his own religious fanaticism.
Movie5.7CrimeMysteryThe story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.
Movie9.0DramaWar
Movie6.6DramaRomanceA renowned doctor and his brother live and work together until the brother falls in love with Marie, a singer, and gives up medicine to be with her. After a time however, she misses her old life and goes back on the stage - an act which leads her lover to commit suicide. Later the doctor and Marie also meet, and she becomes his mistress. He finds out about his brother's suicide and goes through his artifacts looking for a clue as to what might have been the cause. He finds a photograph of Marie and realizes the truth, which decimates their relationship.
Movie6.3DramaCrimeAn engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction. French-language version of the 1933 German DER TUNNEL, q.v.
Le Tunnel
1933 · 6 votes
Movie6.0CrimeMysteryMathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room was locked from the inside, no one can understand how the attacker managed to enter or leave the room. Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille arrives on the scene to protect Mathilde and resolve the mystery of the yellow room.
Movie7.0DocumentaryHistoryAbel 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.
Bonaparte et la révolution
1972 · 1 votes
Movie7.2DramaRomanceThe good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.
Cœur fidèle
1923 · 52 votes
Movie7.0DramaA former professor and devout Catholic living in Jerusalem is unaware that his son supposedly studying in Paris has actually become the leader of an anarchist network under the codename Sirias.
Movie5.6ComedyA bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
Adieu Léonard
1943 · 5 votes