Léonce Perret

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1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

The bright junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil, son of an admiral, is stationed in one of our great military ports, and is neighbors with the young...

The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice...

Suzie takes a cruise and finds a flirt behind her guardian's back.

Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.

Romance on the train with a bitter old governess stands in the way.

Le portrait de Mireille is a 1909 short film

A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).

Léonce Perret's film about a musician's loves and heartaches: An aging violinist is secretly in love with his young student. Will music be...

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

Two suitors bring flowers to their girl in hopes of winning her love.

Directed by Léonce Perret.

The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.

An ancient Greek legend comes to life, courtesy of the Gaumont studios.

A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.

Leonce works at the Gaumont studios as star actor and his wife suspects him of being unfaithful. She finds ladies' hair on his coat, fan letters in...

Directed by Léonce Perret.

Léonce’s wife receives a tiny chihuahua as a gift and immediately dotes on it, to the point of putting it on the table at meals. The...

The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.

A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.

A film crew goes to a mansion to shoot a movie. The actor playing the thief is confused and is shot by the owner with a shotgun. In compensation, he...

The sad adventures of a young Parisian woman.

A 1912 crime film.

Comedy starring Yvette Andréyor and the director, Léonce Perret.

M. Instead, is a spiritualist and decides to invite some friends to a seance. His daughter, Lucy, however, is much more interested in a certain young...

During a transvestite ball, a young provincial meets Fanny Legrand. A great love is born between them. Later, the young man learns that Fanny was a...

A 3 Part Collection of More Than 75 Early Films by Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade and Léonce Perret. The invention of cinema—and its growth...

The ladykiller friend of a busy diplomatic attaché follows a masked blonde home after an elaborate ball without knowing she is that man's wife.

The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice...

The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice...

Le portrait de Mireille is a 1909 short film

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is...

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.

Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.

An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both illicit relationships end in little boys...

Romance on the train with a bitter old governess stands in the way.

A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).

A little girl gets sick and a specialist has to be called....

Léonce Perret's film about a musician's loves and heartaches: An aging violinist is secretly in love with his young student. Will music be...

Two suitors bring flowers to their girl in hopes of winning her love.

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

Shot on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera with both American and French actors. When Matthew Versigny discovers that the jewels his...

A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.

Directed by Léonce Perret.

The Madonna gives a golden lily to the poor musician. He tries to sell it and this arouses the suspicion of the goldsmith.

To fulfill her Father's wish, Grand Duchess Aurora (Huguette Duflos) is forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph (Henry Houry). He...

To fulfill her Father's wish, Grand Duchess Aurora (Huguette Duflos) is forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph (Henry Houry). He...

The countess Hélène de Rochegrune awaits the return of her fiancé who went to the front.

Leonce works at the Gaumont studios as star actor and his wife suspects him of being unfaithful. She finds ladies' hair on his coat, fan letters in...

The noble Margrave of Hess, condemns captain Christian to exile for presuming to ask the hand of his daughter Genevieve in marriage.

A moneylender kidnaps the young son of a rich widow as part of a plot to cheat her of her fortune. The boy is sent away on a fishing boat with the...

This serials played by Léon Lorin and various feminine actors, here Davrières, is full of comic elegance, parisianism of the Grands...

Oscar is on the trail of a new conquest. This serials played by Léon Lorin and various feminine actors, here Angèle Lérida, is...

Directed by Léonce Perret.

Romance between the playwright Harry Bryant and the homeless and illiterate Kate.

Doris Parker, the daughter of an American Marine Officer, becomes Harry Townsend's pen pal. Harry is a young American soldier with no family who has...

Crime and Drama silent movie

Crime and Drama silent movie

Shot on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera with both American and French actors. When Matthew Versigny discovers that the jewels his...

Léonce’s wife receives a tiny chihuahua as a gift and immediately dotes on it, to the point of putting it on the table at meals. The...

Parody of slum tours the posh Parisian circles. A troupe of actors serving the entertainment needs with genuine Apaches'.

A tragic love story, torn apart by the war.

Having been ordered to the front, a soldier entrusts his personal papers to his sister's fiancee. Soon, he too is called up. She comes upon a love...

Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.

Mrs. Philip Mason commits suicide after she has an affair with Stephen Lee, a disreputable stockbroker, and sells her husband's securities so that...

Mrs. Philip Mason commits suicide after she has an affair with Stephen Lee, a disreputable stockbroker, and sells her husband's securities so that...

Maddened by jealousy, Jacques tries to kill his fellow worker.

A drama about twin sisters Daisy and Violet, who grow up unaware of each other's existence, one with their wealthy father and the other with their...

Based on the dutch paintings of lacemakers of the same time - the film depicts a poor woman's strive for money to be able to marry her beloved; doing...

La Possession is a 1929 French film directed by Léonce Perret.

Leroy Trenchard loves Therese Verneuil, and when Leroy enters the army goes to France to fight, Therese follows as a Red Cross nurse. But suspicion...

Leroy Trenchard loves Therese Verneuil, and when Leroy enters the army goes to France to fight, Therese follows as a Red Cross nurse. But suspicion...

French horror short from 1910,

René Dargelle is asked by a friend to receive a young woman in his place. She is soon to marry a Hindu prince, a man who is certainly...

This charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand filmed his cowboy movies. The plot is very simple. A...

A film crew goes to a mansion to shoot a movie. The actor playing the thief is confused and is shot by the owner with a shotgun. In compensation, he...

A film crew goes to a mansion to shoot a movie. The actor playing the thief is confused and is shot by the owner with a shotgun. In compensation, he...

Hodges, the florist, is sorely vexed by his vain efforts to cultivate a blue rose, and therefore does not look kindly upon the love of his pretty...

Leonce flirts

Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.

During a transvestite ball, a young provincial meets Fanny Legrand. A great love is born between them. Later, the young man learns that Fanny was a...

A poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic operation that makes her beautiful.

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

A 1912 crime film.

The bright junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil, son of an admiral, is stationed in one of our great military ports, and is neighbors with the young...

A charming little couple is watched by the misfortune that hides under the disturbing and enigmatic features of a femme fatale.

An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both illicit relationships end in little boys...

The ladykiller friend of a busy diplomatic attaché follows a masked blonde home after an elaborate ball without knowing she is that man's wife.

Clothilde, taken out of her convent to marry the Marquis, refuses to recognize her new husband.

Suzie takes a cruise and finds a flirt behind her guardian's back.

Pierre,a marquis, is madly in love with his dear wife Jeanne whose picture he is painting; one day while hunting in the woods, the husband...

Romance between the playwright Harry Bryant and the homeless and illiterate Kate.

A drama about twin sisters Daisy and Violet, who grow up unaware of each other's existence, one with their wealthy father and the other with their...

A story of the First World War, told in semi-documentary style, focusing on the iniquities of the German war machine, and with its dramatic center...

Vania is a political refugee who travels from Russia to the United States. But even in America, she is pursued by assassins known as "the Ring of...

A story of the First World War, told in semi-documentary style, focusing on the iniquities of the German war machine, and with its dramatic center...

Vania is a political refugee who travels from Russia to the United States. But even in America, she is pursued by assassins known as "the Ring of...

Mademoiselle Blanche Durand, in her sixties who lives on the mezzanine level of her property, is found dead, stabbed, inside her home. To enter, the...

Ninon, a veteran stage artist, resides in her villa in Provence, surrounded by admirers as veteran or more than her. A film crew arrives at the...

Ninon, a veteran stage artist, resides in her villa in Provence, surrounded by admirers as veteran or more than her. A film crew arrives at the...

A mysterious evildoer terrifies the French Riviera. That mysterious character, which is hidden under the personality of James Pearce, a...

In times of World War I, a group of boisterous young ladies occurs to them that they could help the boys of the front writing letters to them and,...

Denise lives with her grandparents on a farm and secretly meets Robert. When she tells her grandparents that she wants to marry Robert, they refuse...

Early short film.

Doris Parker, the daughter of an American Marine Officer, becomes Harry Townsend's pen pal. Harry is a young American soldier with no family who has...

Comedy starring Yvette Andréyor and the director, Léonce Perret.

M. Instead, is a spiritualist and decides to invite some friends to a seance. His daughter, Lucy, however, is much more interested in a certain young...

Not to be confused with "Léonce cinématographiste" (1913, 17min)