Léonce Perret Movies

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...

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

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

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

While visiting a small village, popular young artist Robert Williams meets innocent country girl Helen Sanderson and, enchanted by her beauty,...

Directed by Léonce Perret.

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...

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

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

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

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

Unbeknownst to Léonce, Suzanne allows Gaumont to use their villa garden for a day of filming. Léonce suspects infidelity when he...

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...

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...

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

Léonce 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...