Léonce Perret Movies

A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.

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

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...

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

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...

During a transvestite ball, a young provincial meets Fanny Legrand. A great love is born between them. Later, the young man learns that Fanny was a...

Denise lives with her grandparents on a farm and secretly meets Robert. When she tells her grandparents that she wants to marry Robert, they refuse...

To fulfill her Father's wish, Grand Duchess Aurora (Huguette Duflos) is forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph (Henry Houry). He...

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

Mademoiselle Blanche Durand, in her sixties who lives on the mezzanine level of her property, is found dead, stabbed, inside her home. To enter, the...

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

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