The Essential Watchlist that Capture the Essence of The Zone of Dea...

Dir: Abel Gance

Didier Méreuil, affectionately called Poliche, is in love with Rosine, a beautiful girl, so he does everything to please her. She does not love him, and accepts a seductive airplane pilot who proposes to her. One day, she discovers that the funny man is just a front behind which there is a serious Didier. She will try to make up and live with him - but the gap between them is already too large.

Dir: Abel Gance

Melodrama in which a man, learning his wife has turned to her brother in law for romantic comfort, withdraws affection from his daughter, suspecting that she is not really his own.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Mater dolorosa perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Abel Gance

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantical hero, an accursed artist.

Dir: Abel Gance

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Life and Loves of Beethoven perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Abel Gance

Sad story of an unfaithful wife and her subsequent sufferings as a mother.

Dir: Abel Gance

Dr. Hobson is a humanist scientist who studies snakes. He saves Maud, a young American girl, who is abused by Ted, a violent snake hunter. But when the First World War begins, Hobson is summoned by the French army to invent deadly gases.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of J'accuse! perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Abel Gance

A film about the French general's youth and early military career.

Dir: Abel Gance

Two brothers love Genevieve - Jean, a poor actor, and Martial, an astronomer who spots a deadly comet. As war looms, Martial plans to use the crisis to reform society, facing resistance from powerful elites.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Torture of Silence perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Abel Gance

A ruined aristocrat becomes a steward for Nouveaux riches..

Dir: Abel Gance

A reedited version of Abel Gance's silent masterpiece 'Napoléon vu par Abel Gance', with sound effects added, dialogue post-dubbed, and with new scenes filmed with additional new cast members. The film recounts the life and exploits of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and conqueror of Europe.