Movies: Henri Desfontaines

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...

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. Jour...

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

A considered lost film from 1913...

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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....

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....

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

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

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 fail...

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Directed by André Calmettes and Henri Desfontaines....

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

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, ...

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?...

"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....

A anti-war film about war and children....

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