Henry Krauss
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 26, 1866
Deathday: December 15, 1935
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The Children of Edward IV
1909-10-28
The Children of Edward IV
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1909-10-28
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The Girl from Arles
1908-08-09
The Girl from Arles
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-08-09
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Les Misérables
1934-02-09
Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-09
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Paris
1924-12-13
Paris
Overview: Jean Fleury, a young engineer who has designed a revolutionary engine for the Revoil motor company, is engaged to Aimée Valois, a seamstress, his neighbor across the hall. But the charming young lady is hired one day by a nightclub and lets herself be lured by the easy life in Paris. So much so that, to Jean's great distress, she breaks up with him. But, along with time, Aimée gets tired of her vain and frivolous lifestyle and comes back to Jean.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-12-13
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The Red Head
1925-12-22
The Red Head
Overview: The suffering and rebellion of 12-year-old François Lepic, nicknamed "Carrot Top" by his mother, who hates him. Occupied with the council elections, his father appears unaware that the young boy is increasingly tempted by suicide.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-12-22
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Les Ombres Qui Passent
1924-07-20
Les Ombres Qui Passent
Overview: Directed by Alexandre Volkoff, 1924
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-07-20
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The Reign of Terror
1914-02-27
The Reign of Terror
Overview: The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his undertaking by Dixmer, a master tanner who passes himself off as an ardent revolutionary and his wife Geneviève, who also happens to be the Knight's sister. While on mission with her brother, she is saved from arrest thanks to the intervention of Lieutenant Maurice Lindey. Geneviève, who is married without love to Dixmer, falls for the young man, who requites her love. A tunnel is dug between a house rented by Dixmer and the Tower of the Temple but the various attempts to rescue the queen attempts fail. Marie-Antoinette risks the guillotine/ Moreover, Lindey finds himself involved in the plot...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-02-27
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Germinal
1913-10-03
Germinal
Overview: Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-10-03
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Les Misérables - Part 2: Fantine
1913-01-01
Les Misérables - Part 2: Fantine
Overview: Jean Valjean, guilty of a minor theft of food, is pursued and hounded for years by a relentless lawman, Javert.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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Les Misérables - Part 1: Jean Valjean
1913-01-01
Les Misérables - Part 1: Jean Valjean
Overview: The story begins with Jean Valjean as a humble worker endeavoring to provide for his invalid mother. They live in a squalid home, made more wretched by his inability to provide sufficient food. He goes out in search of work, but is unsuccessful. Finally, in desperation, he steals a loaf of bread regardless of consequences. He hastens home with it, pursued by a crowd, and gives it to his mother. Valjean is arrested for the theft and sentenced to five years at hard labor.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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The Siren
1913-01-01
The Siren
Overview: La Glu tells the story of a woman, separated from her husband, and of evil reputation, who at a summer resort tries to capture the fortune of a wealthy aristocrat whose nephew had been in love with her, and is herself caught in the toils of her interest in a poor and primitive Breton lobster-fisherman. His simple soul discovering the past career and the heartlessness of the Parisian woman, in despair he tries to kill himself by throwing him-self on the rocks. When the Glu, the name given to the woman in question, tries to see the youth, his mother kills her with a mallet on the steps leading to the room of the invalid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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Les Misérables - Part 3: Cosette
1913-01-01
Les Misérables - Part 3: Cosette
Overview: The Thenardiers and their small daughter, Eponine, and young son, Gavroche, are seen at their dingy country tavern. Here little Cosette, the daughter of Fantine, is seen performing drudgery and menial tasks. The Thenardiers are treating their own children kindly, but are cruel to Cosette.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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Les Misérables - Part 4: Cosette and Marius
1913-01-01
Les Misérables - Part 4: Cosette and Marius
Overview: The rebellion of 1832 is on. There is rioting and barricading in the streets. Marius in despair, and in the hope that a bullet will soon end his life, joins the mob and becomes a fighter in the ranks of the insurgents.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1911-01-02
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy street dancer, arouses the desire of men, especially of Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of Notre Dame. The latter asks Quasimodo, the deaf and deformed bell-ringer of the cathedral, to kidnap the girl. Quasimodo, who has been adopted by Frollo and obeys his every word, captures the gypsy but she is saved thanks to Phoebus, a handsome captain, and his archers. Arrested by Phoebus, the hunchback is condemned to be flogged at the pillory. When Esmeralada, moved to pity by his lot, gives him water to drink, Quasimodo falls in love with her. Later, Phoebus is stabbed to death and Esmeralda is wrongly accused of the murder. Sentenced to hang, she is saved by Quasimodo who offers her asylum and... the love of his heart.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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Les Misérables
1913-01-03
Les Misérables
Overview: Directed by Albert Capellani.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-03
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The Veil of Happiness
1910-12-09
The Veil of Happiness
Overview: A Chinese mandarin named Chang is blind and finds his only happiness is the caresses of his wife and the adoration of his son. One day, while out walking with his servant, Chang comes across a sorcerer who recognizes his rank and begs to be allowed to give the great man a potent liquid which will restore his sight. Chang submits to the administration of the sorcerer's cure and in a moment, for the first time in his life, he beholds the beauty of the world; everything about him holds untold ecstasies for his unaccustomed sight. He finds beauty in the very soil on which he walks. Hastening home he admonishes his servant not to say anything, but decides to surprise his family. Stealing into the house he peeks through the door into the study where his son and his tutor are supposed to be at work. There he witnesses his son's burlesque of his own helplessness and the tutor crawling on the floor in mirth. In the garden he discovers his young wife in the embrace of a neighboring mandarin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1910-12-09
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Les Trois masques
1921-01-04
Les Trois masques
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-01-04
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Le fils de Monsieur Ledoux
1919-04-11
Le fils de Monsieur Ledoux
Overview: Gérard, who grew up without parents, has become a doctor and has made an important medical discovery. But he needs substantial funding. One night he finds a brochure about the life of actress Mariette Ducros, now dead, and her child. Her father, Ledoux, lives in Blois. He is a rich collector. Gérard pretends he is Mariette's child. Mr. et Mrs. Ledoux greet him warmly. Out of shame he confesses the truth to Mrs. Ledoux. When she tells her husband, he decides to go to Gérard's office. He talks to Gérard's patients, mothers who claim his medicine saved their children. Mr. Ledoux realizes he found an adopted son in Gérard.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-04-11
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L'Empereur des pauvres
1922-01-01
L'Empereur des pauvres
Overview: Marc Anavan, a rich young man, leads a profligate life and when he understands his fortune is about to evaporate he decides to change his life, to become a vagabond and to do good around him. The task is not easy but his faith in his mission and the love of Silvette will help Marc to overcome all the hardships on his way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Napoleon
1927-01-10
Napoleon
Overview: 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 storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-10
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The Prosecutor Hallers
1930-08-31
The Prosecutor Hallers
Overview: The simultaneously filmed French language version of the 1930 German film The Other. A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-08-31
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The Divine Voyage
1929-06-13
The Divine Voyage
Overview: A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-06-13
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A Vagabond of France
1917-02-23
A Vagabond of France
Overview: The vagabond comes to the little village and to the farm of Pierre, where toil Toinon and Francois. There is a plague upon the sheep, and the vagabond pauses in his wanderings to cure the sheep - and win the love of Toinon. But the road calls him, and he goes, leaving the girl broken hearted. Francois marries her, and the child, Toinet, grows to be a lusty lad who loves the daughter of Pierre. Pierre, knowing the secret of his birth, refuses his consent, but again comes the vagabond, and once more his strange spells work for happiness, but he turns his back upon his new found son and the happiness he has wrought. The call of the open road is too strong.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1917-02-23
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The Corsican Brothers
1917-01-26
The Corsican Brothers
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1917-01-26
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Ninety-Three
1921-06-23
Ninety-Three
Overview: In Britain, during the revolution, the nephew of the Marquis de Lantenac, Gawain (P. Capellani) befriends Cimourdain (H. Krauss), a priest who follows the precepts of the Revolution. During the Terror, the Marquis went into exile in England while his nephew is a soldier in the Revolutionary Army ...
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-06-23
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The Duke's Motto
1925-10-02
The Duke's Motto
Overview: The Prince of Gonzague kills the Duke of Nevers and tries to marry his widow, Aurore de Nevers, so he can get his hand on his fortune. The Chevalier Lagardère takes the child Irène de Nevers with him to Spain only to return disguised as a hunchback years later to unmask the Prince for the villain he is.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-10-02
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The Black Diamond
1922-09-29
The Black Diamond
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-09-29
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Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes
1924-08-01
Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes
Overview: The atheism of a French doctor is tested when he sees for himself the miraculous healing powers of the shrine at Lourdes.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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La closerie des Genets
1925-02-13
La closerie des Genets
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-02-13
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Marie Stuart
1908-01-01
Marie Stuart
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-01-01
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The Siege of Calais
1911-12-22
The Siege of Calais
Overview: Historical film set during the Hundred Year War.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-12-22
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