Léonce-Henri Burel Movies

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

A Princess learns that the captain of a ship she owns has struck a passenger, indirectly causing the passenger's death. The Captain is immediately...

Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room...

Lady Diana Winham is beautiful, wealthy and a widow, so she's courted. She travels Europe in luxury trains, earning her nickname. One of her riches,...

Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.

In Morocco, a French sergeant falls in love with the sister of an Arab colleague, a dangerous situation that could result in death for both of...

A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounced his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger. He ends up...

Colonel Fougas, stricken with catalepsy during the Russian campaign in 1812, was resuscitated after more than a century by French scholars and is not...

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

An ironic look at what it is like to be beautiful for a woman (and handsome for a few men) in the Paris of the late twenties.

In a luxury hotel, a gathering of foreign high society people attend a wedding lunch. By the end of the feast a dramatic turn of events occurs : on...