Henri Desfontaines Movies

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...

A considered lost film from 1913

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

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

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.

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

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...

A anti-war film about war and children.

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

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...

"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...

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...

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

Directed by André Calmettes and Henri Desfontaines.