Henri Desfontaines
Directing
Known For
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 maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.
The Girl from Arles
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. 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
An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.
The Eagle
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 poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Camille
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.
Queen Elizabeth
A anti-war film about war and children.
Children of France During the War
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?
The house of La Fleche
No description available.
HĂ©liogabale
Kids playact war in the backyard and the adults decide to show them a documentary about World War 1.
Le film du poilu
No description available.
Le Capitaine Rascasse
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
French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.
The Pit and the Pendulum
A crude washerwoman in the military entourage of Napoleon is snubbed by the new aristocrats in his court.
Madame Sans-GĂŞne
No description available.
The Doctor of the Poor
No description available.
Son altesse
No description available.
L'espionne aux yeux noirs
M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.
The Man with White Gloves
No description available.
La mégère apprivoisée
A 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
A considered lost film from 1913