Direction: Léonce Perret

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Léonce Perret. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador

1912 · Movie · 45 min. · France

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast Suzanne Grandais · Émile Keppens · Léonce Perret · Max Dhartigny

Plot A young woman stands to be disinherited from a will should she either go insane or join a convent, in which case all the money would be left to her...

6.6

42 votes

6.6

42 votes

The Heart and Money (S)

1912 · Movie · 18 min. · France

Direction Louis Feuillade · Léonce Perret

Cast Suzanne Grandais · Renée Carl · Raymond Lyon · Paul Manson

Plot The heroine of Le coeur et l'argent is forced to marry for position instead of love, and suffers an atypically bleak fate (great résumé, thanks to I-don't-remember-who)

6.4

30 votes

6.4

30 votes

Molière (S)

1909 · Movie · 20 min. · France

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast André Bacqué · Abel Gance · Mary Brunel · Madeleine Sézanne

Plot On a script by young Abel Gance who even plays the role of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Moliére, this is the first important film by Léonce Perret at Gaumont....

5.6

26 votes

5.6

26 votes

Léonce aime les morilles (S)

1913 · Movie · 13 min. · France

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast Léonce Perret · Suzanne Le Bret · Alice Tissot

Plot With his girlfriend Pirouette, Léonce goes to the forest. Instead of finding what they are looking for (mushrooms), they cause a big disaster around them.

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Beauty Spot

1932 · Movie · 78 min. · France

Direction Pierre Caron · Léonce Perret

Cast Simone Cerdan · Marfa d'Hervilly · Doris Morrey · Christiane Tourneur

Plot The ladykiller friend of a busy diplomatic attaché follows a masked blonde home after an elaborate ball without knowing she is that man's wife.

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Le gardian de Camargue (S)

1910 · Movie · 15 min. · France

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The Unknown Love

1919 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast Dolores Cassinelli · E.K. Lincoln · Warren Cook · Robert Elliott

Plot 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 gone to fight in France....

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Le haleur (S)

1911 · Movie · 11 min. · France

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Le Moïse du moulin (S)

1911 · Movie · 15 min. · France

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The Matrimonial Express (S)

1912 · Movie · 13 min. · France

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast Léonce Perret · Valentine Petit · Émile Keppens · Marie Dorly

Plot Romance on the train with a bitter old governess stands in the way.

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Le portrait ovale (S)

1910 · Movie · 19 min. · France

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast Yvette Andréyor · Raoul d'Auchy · Jeanne Marie-Laurent

Plot Pierre,a marquis deeply in love with his wife Jeanne ,accidentally kills her while hunting;he wants to finish the portrait he was painting.

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Fire at the Mines (S)

1911 · Movie · 14 min. · France

Direction Léonce Perret

Plot A tale of two rivals for the same girl's heart, the loser, a noble fellow who later sacrifices his life in order to save that of his former rival. Both...

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La femme nue

1926 · Movie · 140 min. · France

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast Ivan Petrovich · Louise Lagrange · Nita Naldi · André Nox

Plot Lolette is the painter Rouchard's model and he wants to marry her. But she is not interested in him and falls in love with Pierre Bernier, a penniless painter...

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A Spiritualistic Seance (S)

1911 · Movie · 7 min. · France

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast Léonce Perret · Jeanne Marie-Laurent · Edmund Breon

Plot M. Instead, is a spiritualist and decides to invite some friends to a seance. His daughter, Lucy, however, is much more interested in a certain young man, and when papa...

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La dentellière (S)

1913 · Movie · 20 min. · France

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast Suzanne Grandais · Émile Keppens · Maurice Vinot

Plot Based on the dutch paintings of lacemakers of the same time - the film depicts a poor woman’s strive for money to be able to marry her beloved; doing so...

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Les béquilles (S)

1911 · Movie · 12 min. · France

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The ABC of Love

1919 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

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Les bretelles (S)

1913 · Movie · 15 min. · France

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L'Angélus de la victoire (S)

1916 · Movie · 25 min. · France

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast Émile André · Armand Dutertre · Laurenson · Émile Matrat

Plot A tragic love story, torn apart by the war.

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