Léonce Perret Movies

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

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 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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Directed by Léonce Perret.

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

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...

Leonce flirts

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...

En route to the U.S., Joe Hoggart persuades several other immigrants to pool their money and purchase a tract of land, which proves to be rich in oil...

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

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