Henry Roussel Movies

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,...

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

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 plot focuses on Gaillac (Albert Prejean), an electrician employed by the Paris Opera. In love with gorgeous ballerina Suzanne (Gaby Morlay),...

Arlette was born in 1918. Her mother made her lover and godchild named Pierre believe that he was the father of this child. Having become a beautiful...

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

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

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...

No plot available. The director Maurice Tourneur perceived this film to be indicative of the advances French cinema could have taken had it not been...

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.

The story of the children of Captain Grant.

Tells the tragic story of a young trapeze artist (Polaire) abandoned and found by a clown when she was a baby.

The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.

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....

Hortense Fauvel, the wife of a village postmaster, takes Aimée, a young shepherdess, under her wing. Aimée soon becomes engaged to...

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

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

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

Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.