Henry Roussel Movies

A visitor to an insane asylum realises that the inmates have taken control.

This historical melodrama (later remade by Henry Roussel himself in 1932 and Richard Pottier in 1952) set during the reign of Napoleon III of France....

This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in...

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis...

A young singer at the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.

In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A...

Concepcion de la Playa Setta, an Andalusian noblewoman, the daughter of the provost marshall of Flanders, is in love with the Duke Philippe de...

Well-to-do Simone replaces her music-hall friend Yahne when her wealthy uncle visits from America.

A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.

Poor Arlette is married off by her well meaning mother to a supposed count who turns out to be a fake and a crook.Arlette seeks out the real count,...

This French film confection directed by Henry Roussell concerns two young Parisian beauties in love with same fellow (Fernand Fabre). When one of the...

Ginette, a Parisian seamstress, lives poorly but happily with her musician lover. When Count la Ferronnière offers to teach her the manners...

The dramatic story of a military attaché, in a European embassy who will sign a fake check, in order to recover important secret documents...

The story of the children of Captain Grant.

Ginette is always squabbling with her mother and she cannot take it any more. One day, she asks Jim Ashbury to intervene and this is how the son of a...

A man does not know what fear is. His good friend dares him to spend one night in a scary place. A house of wax will get the job done.

The life of composer Frédéric Chopin through his youthful love for Maria Wodzińska, a young Polish aristocrat he was unable to...