Though Delluc's career was short-lived, it burst vigorously(7 films in 4 years)that it forever left its imprint on french cinema history, and they rightly honoured him by giving the annual Prix Delluc to the best French film of the year. He was responsible for the creation of influential cinema  journals like Le Journal du Ciné-Club and Cinéa, founding numerous film societies, writing countless articles and coining the term cineaste. Delluc believed that films should be set in the natural without elaborate posturing, and characters should be portrayed in an intimate way where the past and present, illusion and reality can be correlated, all considered to be avant-garde at its time. He died only a few weeks after the shooting of The Flood at the age of 33.

Like his fiery study of a popular milieu in Fièvre, Louis Delluc's early masterpiece of impressionist cinema, La Femme de Nulle Part, is almost impossible to see outside of rare archival projections in Paris. Shot in natural settings, and stripped of all that is not cinema, Delluc's psychological drama featuring symbolist muse Eve Francis is an experiment in 'direct style.' A fascinating study in the relationship between past and present, memory, dream and reality, this revolutionary film would be a source of inspiration for successive filmmakers, from Francois Truffaut to Alain Resnais.

在《狂热》这部影片里，平民社会的描写代替了对心理和社交生活的描写。影片叙述马赛一家小旅店的女主人，在上陆投宿的水手们中间发现了自己从前的情人；一场争吵由此爆发，结果造成凶杀。这部影片在展示人物及剧情上可说是一种新的风格的范例，这种风格并不是一种专门注重华美形式的毫无意义的风格，而是一种既具体而又直接、真实、符合于内容、并由内容来决定的风格。德吕克所以属于法国电影的伟大自然主义传统，就是因为他具有这种风格，而不是由于他所选择的剧情环境。他的这种倾向，从他始终想在画面里把人物同背景和剧情结合起来一点上，也可以看出。在《狂热》这部影片里，德吕克虽然没有采用卢米埃尔的摄影方法，但却发明了一种使远景与近景同样清楚的方法，这种方法有人常认为是奥逊·威尔斯、格里格·托朗或威廉·惠勒所发明，实际却应该归功于德吕克。影片《狂热》赋予各种人物以恰如其分的性格，使海港景色具有丰富的诗意，并且还利用了追叙的笔法。德吕克的这种表现方法有一部分是从英斯学来的，但他把英斯的经验融会改进，使其达到更完美的地步。另一方面，格里菲斯的影片《被摧残的花朵》给予德吕克的影响却没有产生良好的效果，那些泥塑的佛像、银白色的玫瑰花，以及那个化妆得很坏的东方妇女，使这部影片第二部分的优美感大为减色。《狂热》一片摄制费用虽然很少，却是一部成功的作品。可是它的作者以后却未能实践他的诺言。他和穆西纳克曾创办了一个独立而富于斗争性的影评期刊，名叫《电影杂志》，后因资金困难不得不停止出版。他在拍摄了最后一部作品《洪水》以后，就溘然长逝，享年才32岁。他留给后世很多有关影评方面的著作，但在电影作品方面，可以说他还没有完成序言，就告死去，这对电影界来说，实是一莫大的损失。