Henri Desfontaines

Directing

Henri Desfontaines

Born 1876-11-12 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Acting credits

Camille poster
1.0

Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.

Camille

1912

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Héliogabale

1909

No artwork available
9.0

"Sa gosse" features a realist singer played by Elmire Vautier, whose memories of the unwanted child she left in the country are invoked by the lyrics of a realist song brought Voices from the past.

Sa gosse

1919

Don Juan poster
6.0

Pathé's version of José Zorrilla's play, Don Juan Tenorio.

Don Juan

1908

The Eagle poster
7.0

An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.

The Eagle

1931

The Man with White Gloves poster
6.1

M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.

The Man with White Gloves

1908

Queen Elizabeth poster
4.2

Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

Queen Elizabeth

1912

The Girl from Arles poster
6.0

The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.

The Girl from Arles

1908

Adrienne Lecouvreur poster
8.0

A considered lost film from 1913

Adrienne Lecouvreur

1913

The house of La Fleche poster
8.0

After a rich English lady is killed in a Dijon house, the only person there who doesn't have a solid alibi is about to be arrested.Will a detective from Paris be able to help?

The house of La Fleche

1930

Behind the camera

No artwork available
7.0

A crude washerwoman in the military entourage of Napoleon is snubbed by the new aristocrats in his court.

Madame Sans-Gêne

1911

Son altesse poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Son altesse

1922

Belphégor poster
8.0

Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later police trap is foiled when the phantom—“Belphégor” (the name of a legendary demon)—uses knock-out gas. Journalist Jacques Bellegarde of “Le Petit Parisien” (the real-life newspaper which published the original story in serial installments), investigates, and eventually discovers famous detective Chantecoq and his vivacious daughter Colette are also on the case.

Belphégor

1927

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La mégère apprivoisée

1911

No artwork available
9.0

"Sa gosse" features a realist singer played by Elmire Vautier, whose memories of the unwanted child she left in the country are invoked by the lyrics of a realist song brought Voices from the past.

Sa gosse

1919

No artwork available
8.0

Chichinette (Blanche Montel) is in love with a playboy named Philippe (Jean Devalde). She follows him to Paris, believing his promise of marriage, only to come to her senses.

Chichinette et Cie

1921

Le Capitaine Rascasse poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Capitaine Rascasse

1927

L'espionne aux yeux noirs poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'espionne aux yeux noirs

1926

No artwork available
7.0

Bamboche threw his wife in the water. She's not dead and re-married with Dartès under an alias. Dartès himself goes under the name of one of Bamboche's friend's. The bigamist wife then falls in love with another man : Dr Verdier, who loves Mariette, a sweet girl who turns out to be the child Dartès abandoned long ago.

The Girl of the Dust Bin

1922

The Pit and the Pendulum poster
7.0

French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.

The Pit and the Pendulum

1909

Queen Elizabeth poster
4.2

Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

Queen Elizabeth

1912

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'espionne

1923

Adrienne Lecouvreur poster
8.0

A considered lost film from 1913

Adrienne Lecouvreur

1913

La momie poster
7.0

A young English lord, who has been excavating in Egypt, finds a mummy of a beautiful Egyptian princess, more than 5,000 years old. So well has the Egyptian embalmer done his work that the face is perfect in all its beauty, and the susceptible young man falls deeply in love with this belle of old Egypt, takes the mummy home to his estate in England and there it occupies his whole mind, to the exclusion of all else. Even the proposed visit of a beautiful American girl does not arouse his interest.

La momie

1911

Le film du poilu poster
7.0

Kids playact war in the backyard and the adults decide to show them a documentary about World War 1.

Le film du poilu

1928

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Forest Which Listens

1916

Queen Margaret poster
NR

In 1572, young queen Marguerite de Valois is driven by her mother Catherine de Médicis to marry Henri de Navarre, a Protestant leader, so as to appease the tensions between Catholics and Huguenots. But the marriage of convenience proves a double failure because not only are the newlyweds ill-matched sexually but a horrible killing spree (the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre) ensues as well.

Queen Margaret

1914

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Château historique

1924

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Last Dream

1916

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Doctor of the Poor

1914

Children of France During the War poster
6.0

A anti-war film about war and children.

Children of France During the War

1918

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chouchou

1916

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Poker d'as

1928

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les trois lys

1921