Albert Capellani Movies

An inept marching band heads off to the competition, and then celebrates their surprising victory.

An adaptation of an episode in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean is welcomed into the Bishop of Digne's home, and steals his...

The story of two sisters and a tragic love affair.

An old man, bell ringer at Notre Dame de Paris, disowns his daughter who has an affair with a young frivolous gentleman.

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

Edith Frome (Stevens) finds it impossible to live with her alcoholic husband Arthur (L ‘Estrange), and finally leaves him. After three years...

A young English lord, who has been excavating in Egypt, finds a mummy of a beautiful Egyptian princess, more than 5,000 years old. So well has the...

This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.

When the father of high-born son refuses to let him marry the beautiful seafood seller, she and her brothers determine on a grisly vengeance.

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...

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is...

This film tells the story of mésalliance. He is old and she's young. She takes a lover. He wants to get revenge.

Silent film.

A man and a woman meet in a park in Paris and fall in love with each other. Four years later, they have a daughter, but the man is bored and decides...

Dries, a farmer and a widower, lives with his mother-in-law Grietje and his son Peter. He falls in love with Minna, a widow, and marries her despite...

Stacia Napierkowska (1886-1945) was one of the most successful of the many dancers who appeared onstage, in Paris and internationally, as Hindu...