Léonce Perret
Director · 1880 – 1935 · Niort,France
Léonce Joseph Perret (14 March 1880 – 12 August 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage actor and director. Often described as avant-garde for his unorthodox directing methods, Léonce Perret introduced innovative camera, lighting and film scoring techniques to French cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Léonce Perret, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies24
Movie10.0ComedyLe homard
1913 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0
Unbeknownst to Léonce, Suzanne allows Gaumont to use their villa garden for a day of filming. Léonce suspects infidelity when he returns home early to find an actor's forgotten pair of suspenders. Suzanne and Léonce try to sell this comedic situation back to Gaumont.
Les bretelles
1913 · 1 votes
- Movie5.4Comedy
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 his pocket...
Movie8.0ComedyA 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 is taken care of in the house and falls in love with the daughter of the owners.
- Movie7.0DramaRomance
Le haleur
1911 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaEsther
1910 · 3 votes
- MovieDrama
To secure victory against the Ammonites, the Israeli judge Jephthah vowed to sacrifice the first person who greeted him upon his return. After crushing the enemy, he was devastated when his only daughter emerged first. Resigned to her fate, she requested two months to weep in the mountains before heroically submitting to her father’s tragic oath.
Movie7.0ComedyLéonce and Suzanne are having a very sweet supper together. But then Leonce refuses to give her a puff on his cigarette. She snatches it and blows smoke in his face; They quarrel. Leonce regrets it, but he is locked out of the boudoir. Only when a mouse gets into her bed, terrifying Suzanne, is there any hope of reconciliation.
Un nuage
1913 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Leonce Perret brings home a present for wife Suzanne Grandais. It turns out to be point guards for hat pins. Hat pins with such guards have been outlawed. She is disappointed and refuses to use them. When Leonce seem to get a pin prick in her eye, she is upset. When she discovers he is faking, she decides on her own revenge.
- Movie8.0Drama
A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.
Movie6.2A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.
Movie9.0Drama
Movie8.0Leonce flirts
- Movie5.0DramaRomance
A talented painter spends his vacation in Arles, where he paints a portrait of a beautiful Arlesian woman with whom he falls in love. The young girl is engaged to a very jealous guard of the Camargue. Upon learning of this long-standing affair, the painter gives up on continuing his romance and is content to create a masterpiece that will brighten his entire life.
Le Portrait de Mireille
1910 · 1 votes
- Movie5.8History
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.
André Chénier
1910 · 3 votes
Movie10.0ComedyDirected by Léonce Perret.
- Movie8.0History
A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.
Le Festin de Balthazar
1910 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0
1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.
La conquête d'Aurélia
1912 · 1 votes
- Movie7.5DramaFantasy
The Madonna gives a golden lily to the poor musician. He tries to sell it and this arouses the suspicion of the goldsmith.
Le Lys d'or
1910 · 2 votes
Movie8.0Main de Fer contre la bande aux gants blancs
1912 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0HistoryDrama
Movie8.0DramaThe bright junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil, son of an admiral, is stationed in one of our great military ports, and is neighbors with the young Suzie Darvel, who has opted for a career as an opera singer. Having a great knowledge of music himself, the navy officer, who finds the girl’s voice quite interesting, writes her a melody, making it a gift to her. That same day, he receives orders to set sail, putting an end to the beautiful love story which had just begun. Three years later, junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil returns to Paris. While attending a performance of Carmen, he recognizes the interpreter of the Bizet character as his lovely neighbor from the past. Jacques Mareuil falls in love with the great singer and wants to marry her. His father is however categorically opposed to the decision, and with the aid of one his colleagues at the Naval Department, he obtains an immediate departure to Indochina for Jacques.
La Rançon du Bonheur
1912 · 1 votes
Movie7.3DramaLéonce Perret's film about a musician's loves and heartaches: An aging violinist is secretly in love with his young student. Will music be enough of a comfort to him as she gets married?
- Movie5.8RomanceComedy
Two suitors bring flowers to their girl in hopes of winning her love.