Movies

This documentary documents the construction of the Afsluitdijk, the massive hydraulic engineering project that sealed off the Zuiderzee from the...

The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by...

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation...

A poem to love and patriotism soon after the end of World War I. A highly original and poetic film using many experimental camera techniques, which...

The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband...

The film opens with the overthrow of the Czar during the 1917 Russian revolution. The family of General Count Svirsky (Roger Karl) cower in their...

A vamp seduces a banker and breaks with him when she's obtained all that she wanted.

The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again...

"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.

A documentary about the making of L'argent, the epic silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. The film shows the details of many of the more...

An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère". She dreams that...

The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.

Marcel L'Herbier has always been attracted to the theme of ghosts. Its first short, of 1918, took the title of "Phantasmes" and, in its filmography,...

The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.When she re-encounters her husband he is...

A short by Marcel L'Herbier with music played by Claude Debussy with children's themed visuals.