Albert Capellani Movies

This film is not exceedingly well acted, but has the additional charm of being taken from the actual history of the man whose personality dominated...

Seventeen-year-old Des Grieux, studying philosophy at Amiens, comes from a noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the...

Polichinelle the servant (called Harlequin in the English language version) rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have...

Camille 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...

Faith’s life is shattered when her lover dies. Her brother Job locks her away in a lighthouse, but she jumps from the tower rather than be...

La Glu tells the story of a woman, separated from her husband, and of evil reputation, who at a summer resort tries to capture the fortune of a...

A story of a desperate wife who worries about her husband, a career wrestler.

This film tells the story of mésalliance. He is old and she's young. She takes a lover. He wants to get revenge.

An inept marching band heads off to the competition, and then celebrates their surprising victory.

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

Silent film

Like Max Ophüls, Capellani set many films in the theatre – backstage, on stage, in the public eye; Here is a rags-to-riches story of a...

Bernard Jeansoulet supports his brother Louis and his mother through his work. Louis finds a job in Paris, where he gets carried away by the...

Mr. May wants his daughter Diana to marry into society. The man he wishes her to wed is a scientist, Dr. Dimitrius, but Diana is in love with an...

Stacia Napierkowska (1886-1945) was one of the most successful of the many dancers who appeared onstage, in Paris and internationally, as Hindu...

The picture starts with Robert Warwick walking into the office of director Albert Capellani (the film's actual director). Capellani offers him the...

Directed by Albert Capellani.