Léonce Perret Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...