
Directing
Henri Desfontaines
Born 1876-11-12 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Acting credits
1.0Marguerite 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 synopsis available yet.
Héliogabale
1909
"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
6.0Pathé's version of José Zorrilla's play, Don Juan Tenorio.
Don Juan
1908
7.0An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.
The Eagle
1931
6.1M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.
The Man with White Gloves
1908
4.2Episodes 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
6.0The 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
8.0A considered lost film from 1913
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1913
8.0After 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
A crude washerwoman in the military entourage of Napoleon is snubbed by the new aristocrats in his court.
Madame Sans-Gêne
1911
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Son altesse
1922
8.0Belphégor 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 synopsis available yet.
La mégère apprivoisée
1911
"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
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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Le Capitaine Rascasse
1927
8.0No synopsis available yet.
L'espionne aux yeux noirs
1926
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
7.0French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.
The Pit and the Pendulum
1909
4.2Episodes 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 synopsis available yet.
L'espionne
1923
8.0A considered lost film from 1913
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1913
7.0A 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
7.0Kids playact war in the backyard and the adults decide to show them a documentary about World War 1.
Le film du poilu
1928
No synopsis available yet.
The Forest Which Listens
1916
NRIn 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 synopsis available yet.
Château historique
1924
No synopsis available yet.
The Last Dream
1916
No synopsis available yet.
The Doctor of the Poor
1914
6.0A anti-war film about war and children.
Children of France During the War
1918
No synopsis available yet.
Chouchou
1916
No synopsis available yet.
Poker d'as
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Les trois lys
1921