Marcel L'Herbier Movies

Ludivine, a lttle tomboy, takes on the too polite Delphin. Being caught, and punished, she wants him and his father to be dead. When the latter dies,...

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.

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...

An indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe triangle develops among the expatriates.

Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he...

After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to...

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...

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

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...

Françoise Marinier, a strong-willed young woman, won't accept a husband being forced on her. She left her family and moved to Paris, where she...

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.

A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners)....

A poem to love & patriotism soon after the end of WWI. A highly original and poetic film using many experimental camera techniques, which proved too...

Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room...

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 lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounced his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger. He ends up...

19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence...

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,...

By mutual agreement, a man and a woman are separated to allow the wife to join her lover.