Henry Roussel Movies

The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.

A man does not know what fear is. His good friend dares him to spend one night in a scary place. A house of wax will get the job done.

Hortense Fauvel, the wife of a village postmaster, takes Aimée, a young shepherdess, under her wing. Aimée soon becomes engaged to...

This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in...

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.

Tells the tragic story of a young trapeze artist (Polaire) abandoned and found by a clown when she was a baby.

Arlette was born in 1918. Her mother made her lover and godchild named Pierre believe that he was the father of this child. Having become a beautiful...

A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.

This French film confection directed by Henry Roussell concerns two young Parisian beauties in love with same fellow (Fernand Fabre). When one of the...

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis...

The plot focuses on Gaillac (Albert Prejean), an electrician employed by the Paris Opera. In love with gorgeous ballerina Suzanne (Gaby Morlay),...

A visitor to an insane asylum realises that the inmates have taken control.

Ginette, a Parisian seamstress, lives poorly but happily with her musician lover. When Count la Ferronnière offers to teach her the manners...

The Twins, regular bad men of the regiment, have been condemned to the military prison, and it goes much against the grain of the kind-hearted...

In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A...

The life of composer Frédéric Chopin through his youthful love for Maria Wodzińska, a young Polish aristocrat he was unable to...

The story takes place in Corsica, where a young business woman (Jacqueline Forzane) tries to construct an electric system for her steel plant. But...

During a stay in Seville, Empress Eugénie was charmed by the song of Violetta, a flower girl of gypsy origin. She invites her to Paris where...

This historical melodrama (later remade by Henry Roussel himself in 1932 and Richard Pottier in 1952) set during the reign of Napoleon III of France....