Movies

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his...

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

Jonny Wilken is an ageing lion trainer in a circus. He is in love with his younger colleague Jutta Sarris. On her wedding day, Jutta's favorite...

The first part of Abel Gance's 1927 epic 'Napoleon'

Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for...

The second part of Abel Gance's 1927 epic 'Napoleon'

Directed by Alexandre Volkoff

By 1820, Edmund Kean is the most admired Shakespearan actor. But if his art is peerless, his free lifestyle is ill thought of, particularly by the...

A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every...

In the Parisian Russian émigré community, an attractive young woman, Hélène, is torn between her husband, her lover, and...

Adapted from Jules Verne's 1876 novel Michael Strogoff, the film tells the tale of a Russian courier named Michael Strogoff who has to dash across...

Animals start to mysteriously die in a zoo in Hamburg. Is somebody poisoning the animals and with what purpose?

The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to...

The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939...

The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks). After spending most of their careers in the...

An old clown loves a young dancer to whom he gives lessons. He heroically withdraws from the love of a rich young man.

On a carnival evening in Nice, when Jeanne Olier is to be engaged to a certain Natahlie Rouhais, a mysterious woman in black enter the room and...

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...