Léonce Perret Movies

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

A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.

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...

Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.

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...

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.

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

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

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

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...

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

A drama about twin sisters Daisy and Violet, who grow up unaware of each other's existence, one with their wealthy father and the other with their...

Vania is a political refugee who travels from Russia to the United States. But even in America, she is pursued by assassins known as "the Ring of...

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