Léonce Perret Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

In Montreux, Marie silently loves Georges, who instead loves her sister Jeanne. At his request, Marie helps unite them, then deliberately contracts...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...