Henri Desfontaines

Filmes

The Eagle
Metternich
An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.
The house of La Fleche
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?
Le film du poilu
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Kids playact war in the backyard and the adults decide to show them a documentary about World War 1.
Poker d'as
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Le capitaine Rascasse
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Belphégor
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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.
L'espionne aux yeux noirs
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Château historique
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L'insigne mystérieux
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L'espionne
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The Girl of the Dust Bin
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Bamboche threw his wife in the water. She's not dead and re-married with Dartès under an alias. Dartès himself goes under the name of one of Bamboche's friend's. The bigamist wife then falls in love with another man : Dr Verdier, who loves Mariette, a sweet girl who turns out to be the child Dartès abandoned long ago.
Son altesse
Director
Chichinette et Cie
Adaptation
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
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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.
Les trois lys
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Sa gosse
"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 of a realist song brought Voices from the past.
Sa gosse
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"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 of a realist song brought Voices from the past.
Les enfants de France et de la guerre
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A anti-war film about war and children.
Chouchou
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The Forest Which Listens
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The Last Dream
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Queen Margaret
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In 1572, young queen Marguerite de Valois is driven by her mother Catherine de Médicis to marry Henri de Navarre, a Protestant leader, so as to appease the tensions between Catholics and Huguenots. But the marriage of convenience proves a double failure because not only are the newlyweds ill-matched sexually but a horrible killing spree (the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre) ensues as well.
The Doctor of the Poor
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
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A considered lost film from 1913
Adrienne Lecouvreur
A considered lost film from 1913
Queen Elizabeth
Epsodes 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
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Epsodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.
Camille
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.
Madame Sans-Gêne
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Directed by André Calmettes and Henri Desfontaines.
Héliogabale
The Man with White Gloves
M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.
The Girl from Arles
Mitifio
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.