René Leprince

Directing

René Leprince

Born 1876-02-13 · Sathonay, Ain, France

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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8.0

Lefranc is vain selfish man. The only person he loves is his eldest son Bernard, a ship-of-the-line lieutenant. Richard, the youngest son, is a common fisherman. Bernard gets married to a rich heiress, Hélène d'Argel and Richard gets married on the same day with Louise Kermarech, daughter of a fisherman. Years later, Bernard looses his wife and disappears at sea. His daughter Germaine ignores her cousin Gaud and Yvonnic Lefranc. Richard also dies at sea. Germaine will bring grand-father Lefranc closer to his grand-children.

Facing the Ocean

1920

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8.0

Lefranc is vain selfish man. The only person he loves is his eldest son Bernard, a ship-of-the-line lieutenant. Richard, the youngest son, is a common fisherman. Bernard gets married to a rich heiress, Hélène d'Argel and Richard gets married on the same day with Louise Kermarech, daughter of a fisherman. Years later, Bernard looses his wife and disappears at sea. His daughter Germaine ignores her cousin Gaud and Yvonnic Lefranc. Richard also dies at sea. Germaine will bring grand-father Lefranc closer to his grand-children.

Facing the Ocean

1920

Princesse Masha poster
8.0

A baby is abandoned near the Neva in St. Petersburg 1890. A teacher picks it up and takes the little girl. 20 years pass, Masha (Claudia Victrix) flee Russia because her father conspired against the Tsarist regime and is in the attention of the dangerous General Bourgassoff (Jean Toulout) . She goes to study medicine in Paris....

Princesse Masha

1928

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10.0

Directed by René Leprince.

The Guilty One

1911

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8.0

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Princesse Lulu

1925

Vent debout poster
7.3

Jacques Averil leads an idle life which plunges him into weariness and melancholy. When he learns of the suicide of his father, a banker ruined by dark speculation in Icelandic minerals, he decides to take charge. An old friend of his father offers him the opportunity to join as a sailor.

Vent debout

1923

La jolie Bretonne poster
NR

Anaïk, a lovely Breton girl, is engaged to Yvon, a sailor on the destroyer Amphititre. They plan to marry after his return. During his absence, Anaïk gets to know Bernard Grandval, a painter from Paris, and his daughter Simone. Enchanted by the young Breton's beauty, Bernard makes her his model and gradually falls in love with her.

La jolie Bretonne

1914

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8.0

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Mylord l'Arsouille

1925

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10.0

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La folie du doute

1923

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10.0

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La folie du doute

1923

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10.0

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Être ou ne pas être

1922

La danse héroïque poster
NR

Mude movie from France

La danse héroïque

1914

La danse héroïque poster
NR

Mude movie from France

La danse héroïque

1914

L'Étoile du génie poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Étoile du génie

1914

Jean d'Agrève poster
NR

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Jean d'Agrève

1922

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10.0

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The Martyrdom of a Queen

1919

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9.0

Fernand Pradier (Gabriel Signoret) is an honest merchant and a simple person at heart who tries to make her daughter Germaine (Gabrielle Robinne) happy. She is engaged to a rich banker St-Bris (René Alexandre). However, the fiance once belonged to a criminal organization and, despite his efforts of rehabilitation, one of his ancient accomplices makes their engagement impossible. Eventually imprisoned, she escapes with the help of a beautiful typist (Stacia Napierkowska)...

The King of Prison

1913

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9.0

Fernand Pradier (Gabriel Signoret) is an honest merchant and a simple person at heart who tries to make her daughter Germaine (Gabrielle Robinne) happy. She is engaged to a rich banker St-Bris (René Alexandre). However, the fiance once belonged to a criminal organization and, despite his efforts of rehabilitation, one of his ancient accomplices makes their engagement impossible. Eventually imprisoned, she escapes with the help of a beautiful typist (Stacia Napierkowska)...

The King of Prison

1913

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8.0

Marc Anavan, a rich young man, leads a profligate life and when he understands his fortune is about to evaporate he decides to change his life, to become a vagabond and to do good around him. The task is not easy but his faith in his mission and the love of Silvette will help Marc to overcome all the hardships on his way.

L'Empereur des pauvres

1922

Max Juggles for Love poster
6.5

Max proposes to a lady. Inexplicably, she insists she won’t marry him until he learns to juggle. At this news, Max goes home and tries to learn but is ultimately unsuccessful until he hatches an idea...

Max Juggles for Love

1912

Max and His Dog Dick poster
5.8

When Max, a newly married man, suspects that his wife may be cheating on him, he gives his faithful dog Dick orders to keep on eye on her when he's not at home.

Max and His Dog Dick

1912

Fan Fan the Tulip poster
9.0

An earlier version of the 18th century swashbuckling story later made as a vehicle for Gerard Philipe, this one is in serial format.

Fan Fan the Tulip

1925

L'Enfant des Halles poster
10.0

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L'Enfant des Halles

1924

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5.5

Jean Clédat, a young sculptor, has fallen in love with Gabrielle Normand, a painter. Jean's father, who expected him to perform his art in his native town, is surprised not to see him come back after his studies at the Fine Arts Academy, all the more as Marie-Claire, his kind-hearted fiancée, is waiting for him at home. Suspecting a love affair, Clédat Senior comes to visit Jean out of the blue. Not only are his suspicions confirmed but they are even reinforced when he catches sight of a doll in his son's studio. After telling Gabrielle that he will provide maintenance for the "child", he forces his son son to go back home. The only thing is that he is making a mistake : there IS a four-year-old girl, but she is Gabrielle's little sister, not her daughter...

When Paris Loves

1913