Movies: Philippe Hériat

  • 1927
    Napoleon

    Napoleon (1927)

    Napoleon

    7.81927HD

    A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political s...

    Napoleon
  • 1924
    L'Inhumaine

    L'Inhumaine (1924)

    L'Inhumaine

    6.81924HD

    A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young Swedish scientist, Einar Norsen. At her lavish parties she enjoys their amorous attentions but she remains...

    L'Inhumaine
  • 1929
    Napoleon at St. Helena

    Napoleon at St. Helena (1929)

    Napoleon at St. Helena

    4.81929HD

    Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 18...

    Napoleon at St. Helena
  • 1925
    The Late Mathias Pascal

    The Late Mathias Pascal (1925)

    The Late Mathias Pascal

    71925HD

    Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on ...

    The Late Mathias Pascal
  • 1920
    The Man of the Sea

    The Man of the Sea (1920)

    The Man of the Sea

    6.31920HD

    Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns....

    The Man of the Sea
  • 1924
    Miracle of the Wolves

    Miracle of the Wolves (1924)

    Miracle of the Wolves

    5.41924HD

    King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fo...

    Miracle of the Wolves
  • 1926
    Nothing But Time

    Nothing But Time (1926)

    Nothing But Time

    7.31926HD

    The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor....

    Nothing But Time
  • 1921
    El Dorado

    El Dorado (1921)

    El Dorado

    6.61921HD

    In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's father Estiria, a prominent citizen, refuses them both help and recognition, fearful of jeopardising...

    El Dorado
  • 1935
    Divine

    Divine (1935)

    Divine

    6.51935HD

    A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman....

    Divine
  • 1935
    Napoléon Bonaparte

    Napoléon Bonaparte (1935)

    Napoléon Bonaparte

    81935HD

    A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound....

    Napoléon Bonaparte
  • 1934
    Rothchild

    Rothchild (1934)

    Rothchild

    61934HD

    An ex-businessman, ruined and reduced to living under bridges, uses the name of one of his companions in misfortune, Rothchild, to organize a vast scam....

    Rothchild
  • 1955
    Fruits of Summer

    Fruits of Summer (1955)

    Fruits of Summer

    71955HD

    Sabine Gravières, married to Edouard, the High Commissioner for Criminal Youth, has a problem: Juliette, her daughter, is not only pregnant but she also refuses to marry Claude, the young man who got her pregnant. It is fair to say that the model set...

    Fruits of Summer
  • 1924
    The Gallery of Monsters

    The Gallery of Monsters (1924)

    The Gallery of Monsters

    7.51924HD

    The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's beauty arouses the director's lust. Furious at being rejected, he opens a lion's cage during Ralda's...

    The Gallery of Monsters
  • 1933
    Le sexe faible

    Le sexe faible (1933)

    Le sexe faible

    01933HD

    The story of Madame Leroy-Gomez, a wealthy divorcee living in Paris. Together with her servant Antoine she schemes to marry off her unmarried children and fix any issues that arise for those already married....

    Le sexe faible
  • 1927
    Sea Fever

    Sea Fever (1927)

    Sea Fever

    6.21927HD

    The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea....

    Sea Fever
  • 1967
    Rosie!

    Rosie! (1967)

    Rosie!

    01967HD

    An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane....

    Rosie!
  • 1935
    Lucrezia Borgia

    Lucrezia Borgia (1935)

    Lucrezia Borgia

    5.31935HD

    French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families....

    Lucrezia Borgia
  • 1929
    Saint Joan the Maid

    Saint Joan the Maid (1929)

    Saint Joan the Maid

    6.31929HD

    This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in favor of Carl Dreyer's triumphant 'La Passion de J...

    Saint Joan the Maid
  • 1920
    Le Carnaval des vérités

    Le Carnaval des vérités (1920)

    Le Carnaval des vérités

    01920HD

    Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of theirs, Clarisse. Their plot fails; the Comtesse kills herself at a ball, and her lover re-covers her face wit...

    Le Carnaval des vérités
  • 1921
    Prometheus, Banker

    Prometheus, Banker (1921)

    Prometheus, Banker

    5.71921HD

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

    Prometheus, Banker