
Directing
Léonce Perret
Born — Died
1880-03-14 — 1935-08-12
Place of birth
Niort,France
Known for
Directing
Credits
87 titles
Léonce Joseph Perret (14 March 1880 – 12 August 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage actor and director. Often described as avant-garde for his unorthodox directing methods, Léonce Perret introduced innovative camera, lighting and film scoring techniques to French cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Léonce Perret, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
7.0While visiting a small village, popular young artist Robert Williams meets innocent country girl Helen Sanderson and, enchanted by her beauty, induces the girl to pose for him. An attraction develops between them, but just as the portrait is completed, Robert is called back to the city. Helen fails to hear from him again and Robert's neglect draws her to the city, where she is sent to a reformatory on a false charge. Once released, she begs Judge Princeton for help and, feeling sorry for the unfortunate girl, he introduces her to playwright George Wendbourg, who adopts Helen and makes her a great actress. Seeing Helen on stage reawakens Robert's love for her and he begs her for forgiveness. After initially snubbing him, Helen relents and the two finally are reunited.
Tarnished Reputations
1920
8.0To fulfill her Father's wish, Grand Duchess Aurora (Huguette Duflos) is forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph (Henry Houry). He prepares to leave for the Congo but is murdered by his own brother (Georges Vaultier). Aurora goes to Paris with her father and, there, is told on the phone of her husband's death. After returning to the Kingdom, she meets a tutor (Jaque Catelain) who falls in love with her..
The Secret Spring
1923
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Le homard
1913
6.2Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.
The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador
1912
Unbeknownst to Léonce, Suzanne allows Gaumont to use their villa garden for a day of filming. Léonce suspects infidelity when he returns home early to find an actor's forgotten pair of suspenders. Suzanne and Léonce try to sell this comedic situation back to Gaumont.
Les bretelles
1913
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Main de Fer contre la bande aux gants blancs
1912
Film credits
1910s · 46 titles
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Le homard
1913
6.2Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.
The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador
1912
Unbeknownst to Léonce, Suzanne allows Gaumont to use their villa garden for a day of filming. Léonce suspects infidelity when he returns home early to find an actor's forgotten pair of suspenders. Suzanne and Léonce try to sell this comedic situation back to Gaumont.
Les bretelles
1913
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Main de Fer contre la bande aux gants blancs
1912
7.0Léonce 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 blows smoke in his face; They quarrel. Leonce regrets it, but he is locked out of the boudoir. Only when a mouse gets into her bed, terrifying Suzanne, is there any hope of reconciliation.
Un nuage
1913
Leonce Perret brings home a present for wife Suzanne Grandais. It turns out to be point guards for hat pins. Hat pins with such guards have been outlawed. She is disappointed and refuses to use them. When Leonce seem to get a pin prick in her eye, she is upset. When she discovers he is faking, she decides on her own revenge.
The Pins
1913
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Esther
1910
6.2A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.
Léonce Loves Morels
1913
6.6The 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 with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
The Child of Paris
1913
The Madonna gives a golden lily to the poor musician. He tries to sell it and this arouses the suspicion of the goldsmith.
Le Lys d'or
1910
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Fire at the Mine
1911
8.0The bright junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil, son of an admiral, is stationed in one of our great military ports, and is neighbors with the young Suzie Darvel, who has opted for a career as an opera singer. Having a great knowledge of music himself, the navy officer, who finds the girl’s voice quite interesting, writes her a melody, making it a gift to her. That same day, he receives orders to set sail, putting an end to the beautiful love story which had just begun. Three years later, junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil returns to Paris. While attending a performance of Carmen, he recognizes the interpreter of the Bizet character as his lovely neighbor from the past. Jacques Mareuil falls in love with the great singer and wants to marry her. His father is however categorically opposed to the decision, and with the aid of one his colleagues at the Naval Department, he obtains an immediate departure to Indochina for Jacques.
La Rançon du Bonheur
1912
8.0A film crew goes to a mansion to shoot a movie. The actor playing the thief is confused and is shot by the owner with a shotgun. In compensation, he is taken care of in the house and falls in love with the daughter of the owners.
The Crutches
1911
To secure victory against the Ammonites, the Israeli judge Jephthah vowed to sacrifice the first person who greeted him upon his return. After crushing the enemy, he was devastated when his only daughter emerged first. Resigned to her fate, she requested two months to weep in the mountains before heroically submitting to her father’s tragic oath.
Jephthah's Daughter
1910
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 his pocket...
Léonce: Cinematographer
1913
No synopsis available yet.
Le haleur
1911
10.0Directed by Léonce Perret.
Léonce in the Countryside
1913
8.0Leonce flirts
Leonce Flirts
1913
No synopsis available yet.
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
1910
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Léonce pot-au-feu
1913
5.8The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.
The Roman Orgy
1911
No synopsis available yet.
The Béarnaise Girl
1911
A talented painter spends his vacation in Arles, where he paints a portrait of a beautiful Arlesian woman with whom he falls in love. The young girl is engaged to a very jealous guard of the Camargue. Upon learning of this long-standing affair, the painter gives up on continuing his romance and is content to create a masterpiece that will brighten his entire life.
Le Portrait de Mireille
1910
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Main de fer et l'évasion du forçat de Croze
1912
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La lumière et l'amour
1912
1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.
La conquête d'Aurélia
1912
Daphne is a nymph, daughter of the river Ladon and Earth. Pursued by Apollo's amorous advances, she flees. Just as the god is about to catch up with her, she calls upon her father, who transforms her into a laurel tree. Apollo will make it his sacred tree.
The Legend of Daphne
1910
No synopsis available yet.
Moses of the Mill
1911
Two suitors bring flowers to their girl in hopes of winning her love.
The Red Chrysanthemum
1912
Suzie takes a cruise and finds a flirt behind her guardian's back.
Le Mariage de Suzie
1912
A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.
The Seven Deadly Sins
1910
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Léonce aux bains de mer
1914
A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.
Le Festin de Balthazar
1910
Comedy starring Yvette Andréyor and the director, Léonce Perret.
Mariage par le cinématographe
1911
Léonce’s wife receives a tiny chihuahua as a gift and immediately dotes on it, to the point of putting it on the table at meals. The hero is disgusted and tries increasingly devious and extreme ways of getting rid of the little pest - David Bordwell
Léonce et Toto
1913
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.
André Chénier
1910
No synopsis available yet.
Graziella la gitane
1912
7.3Léonce Perret's film about a musician's loves and heartaches: An aging violinist is secretly in love with his young student. Will music be enough of a comfort to him as she gets married?
The Autumn of the Heart
1911
A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).
Molière
1910
8.8A 1912 crime film.
Hand of Iron
1912
Romance on the train with a bitter old governess stands in the way.
L'Express matrimonial
1912
7.0No synopsis available yet.
You'll Go Away, Youth
1911
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 goes out to send telegrams to his guests she proceeds to entertain her admirer. Unfortunately papa returns with some of his friends, and the young man balances a table on his back while the tablecloth hides him from the view of all. The guests come in, and tea is put on the table. The poor young man under it is in a very uncomfortable position, and sends all the tea-things flying. The ladies shriek, and the men climb on chairs, for they think it is spirits, and Lucy seizes the opportunity to join him under the table. Papa Insteade lifts up the corner of the tablecloth, and reveals the two enjoying themselves. The pair are so obviously in love that he relents, and gives the necessary consent.
A Spiritualistic Seance
1911
The sad adventures of a young Parisian woman.
Mademoiselle Chiffon
1919
7.0Leonce Perret tries to kill himself. After he fails, he decides to pour out his agony on paper. However, he broke an arm in trying to end his life. So he hires a pretty, sympathetic secretary, and matters take their course.
Léonce poète
1913
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Léonce en ménage
1913
Behind the camera
7.0While visiting a small village, popular young artist Robert Williams meets innocent country girl Helen Sanderson and, enchanted by her beauty, induces the girl to pose for him. An attraction develops between them, but just as the portrait is completed, Robert is called back to the city. Helen fails to hear from him again and Robert's neglect draws her to the city, where she is sent to a reformatory on a false charge. Once released, she begs Judge Princeton for help and, feeling sorry for the unfortunate girl, he introduces her to playwright George Wendbourg, who adopts Helen and makes her a great actress. Seeing Helen on stage reawakens Robert's love for her and he begs her for forgiveness. After initially snubbing him, Helen relents and the two finally are reunited.
Tarnished Reputations
1920
8.0To fulfill her Father's wish, Grand Duchess Aurora (Huguette Duflos) is forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph (Henry Houry). He prepares to leave for the Congo but is murdered by his own brother (Georges Vaultier). Aurora goes to Paris with her father and, there, is told on the phone of her husband's death. After returning to the Kingdom, she meets a tutor (Jaque Catelain) who falls in love with her..
The Secret Spring
1923
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Le homard
1913
6.2Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.
The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador
1912
Unbeknownst to Léonce, Suzanne allows Gaumont to use their villa garden for a day of filming. Léonce suspects infidelity when he returns home early to find an actor's forgotten pair of suspenders. Suzanne and Léonce try to sell this comedic situation back to Gaumont.
Les bretelles
1913
Unbeknownst to Léonce, Suzanne allows Gaumont to use their villa garden for a day of filming. Léonce suspects infidelity when he returns home early to find an actor's forgotten pair of suspenders. Suzanne and Léonce try to sell this comedic situation back to Gaumont.
Les bretelles
1913
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Main de Fer contre la bande aux gants blancs
1912
7.5This charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand filmed his cowboy movies. The plot is very simple. A guardian falls in love with a Parisian. Desperate, he commits suicide when she returns to the capital. But, as always with Perret, we appreciate the framing, the skilful use of the exteriors and the documentary side of life of the time. We see the young Arlesianas in traditional dress go out to collect almonds and return with their baskets to the city. The actor in the role of the guardian overreacts, imitating bombastic despair. But the finale, in which he rides a horse through the waves to find the rest of death, preserves its charm intact. Perret knows how to set the rhythm of a sequence and give it the necessary atmosphere.
The Guardian of Camargue
1910
No synopsis available yet.
L'écuyère
1922
6.0No synopsis available yet.
The Million Dollar Dollies
1918
6.0No synopsis available yet.
The Million Dollar Dollies
1918
5.3Oscar is on the trail of a new conquest. This serials played by Léon Lorin and various feminine actors, here Angèle Lérida, is full of comic elegance, parisianism of the Grands Boulevards and a real taste for fine shots.
Oscar at the Bath
1913
7.0Léonce 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 blows smoke in his face; They quarrel. Leonce regrets it, but he is locked out of the boudoir. Only when a mouse gets into her bed, terrifying Suzanne, is there any hope of reconciliation.
Un nuage
1913
Leonce Perret brings home a present for wife Suzanne Grandais. It turns out to be point guards for hat pins. Hat pins with such guards have been outlawed. She is disappointed and refuses to use them. When Leonce seem to get a pin prick in her eye, she is upset. When she discovers he is faking, she decides on her own revenge.
The Pins
1913
7.0Maddened by jealousy, Jacques tries to kill his fellow worker.
Sur les rails
1912
8.0En route to the U.S., Joe Hoggart persuades several other immigrants to pool their money and purchase a tract of land, which proves to be rich in oil years later. With the assistance of his associate, Bill Shopps, Joe seeks to control the other investors' certificates. He travels to Spain, where he discovers that a partner named Garros has died. Joe kidnaps Garros' daughter, Rolande, and claims that she has also died. After Didier Bouchard, another member of the group, gathers the partners and their heirs together, Joe lures them into a building where, ostensibly, a sale of the land is to take place. Joe imprisons them, but they escape in time to attend the sale. An investor named Milo d'Espail learns that Rolande is still alive and rescues her from Joe. Bouchard marries Thérèse, another of Garros's daughters.
The Money Maniac
1921
8.0En route to the U.S., Joe Hoggart persuades several other immigrants to pool their money and purchase a tract of land, which proves to be rich in oil years later. With the assistance of his associate, Bill Shopps, Joe seeks to control the other investors' certificates. He travels to Spain, where he discovers that a partner named Garros has died. Joe kidnaps Garros' daughter, Rolande, and claims that she has also died. After Didier Bouchard, another member of the group, gathers the partners and their heirs together, Joe lures them into a building where, ostensibly, a sale of the land is to take place. Joe imprisons them, but they escape in time to attend the sale. An investor named Milo d'Espail learns that Rolande is still alive and rescues her from Joe. Bouchard marries Thérèse, another of Garros's daughters.
The Money Maniac
1921
8.0En route to the U.S., Joe Hoggart persuades several other immigrants to pool their money and purchase a tract of land, which proves to be rich in oil years later. With the assistance of his associate, Bill Shopps, Joe seeks to control the other investors' certificates. He travels to Spain, where he discovers that a partner named Garros has died. Joe kidnaps Garros' daughter, Rolande, and claims that she has also died. After Didier Bouchard, another member of the group, gathers the partners and their heirs together, Joe lures them into a building where, ostensibly, a sale of the land is to take place. Joe imprisons them, but they escape in time to attend the sale. An investor named Milo d'Espail learns that Rolande is still alive and rescues her from Joe. Bouchard marries Thérèse, another of Garros's daughters.
The Money Maniac
1921
6.2A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.
Léonce Loves Morels
1913
10.0A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
Madame Sans-Gêne
1925
6.6The 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 with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
The Child of Paris
1913
6.6The 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 with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
The Child of Paris
1913
7.7Pierre,a marquis, is madly in love with his dear wife Jeanne whose picture he is painting; one day while hunting in the woods, the husband accidentally kills his beloved one. He's desperate to finish the portrait so he uses other models but none of them can touch his late wife's beauty. Six months later he meets Madeleine who resembles his dear departed. It's not long before she understands her rival is a picture and she tries more and more to look like Jeanne.
The Oval Portrait
1910
8.0La Possession is a 1929 French film directed by Léonce Perret.
La Possession
1929
The Madonna gives a golden lily to the poor musician. He tries to sell it and this arouses the suspicion of the goldsmith.
Le Lys d'or
1910
5.6The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.
The Heart and the Money
1912
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Fire at the Mine
1911
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Fire at the Mine
1911
10.0A charming little couple is watched by the misfortune that hides under the disturbing and enigmatic features of a femme fatale.
When we were two
1930
9.0Shot on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera with both American and French actors. When Matthew Versigny discovers that the jewels his diamond company has been buying are fake, he travels to Europe to track down the counterfeiter. With him are his sister, Marguerite and her sweetheart, Paul Bernac, who is an agent in the French Secret Service.
The Empire of Diamonds
1920
8.0The bright junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil, son of an admiral, is stationed in one of our great military ports, and is neighbors with the young Suzie Darvel, who has opted for a career as an opera singer. Having a great knowledge of music himself, the navy officer, who finds the girl’s voice quite interesting, writes her a melody, making it a gift to her. That same day, he receives orders to set sail, putting an end to the beautiful love story which had just begun. Three years later, junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil returns to Paris. While attending a performance of Carmen, he recognizes the interpreter of the Bizet character as his lovely neighbor from the past. Jacques Mareuil falls in love with the great singer and wants to marry her. His father is however categorically opposed to the decision, and with the aid of one his colleagues at the Naval Department, he obtains an immediate departure to Indochina for Jacques.
La Rançon du Bonheur
1912
8.0A film crew goes to a mansion to shoot a movie. The actor playing the thief is confused and is shot by the owner with a shotgun. In compensation, he is taken care of in the house and falls in love with the daughter of the owners.
The Crutches
1911
8.0A film crew goes to a mansion to shoot a movie. The actor playing the thief is confused and is shot by the owner with a shotgun. In compensation, he is taken care of in the house and falls in love with the daughter of the owners.
The Crutches
1911
To secure victory against the Ammonites, the Israeli judge Jephthah vowed to sacrifice the first person who greeted him upon his return. After crushing the enemy, he was devastated when his only daughter emerged first. Resigned to her fate, she requested two months to weep in the mountains before heroically submitting to her father’s tragic oath.
Jephthah's Daughter
1910
To secure victory against the Ammonites, the Israeli judge Jephthah vowed to sacrifice the first person who greeted him upon his return. After crushing the enemy, he was devastated when his only daughter emerged first. Resigned to her fate, she requested two months to weep in the mountains before heroically submitting to her father’s tragic oath.
Jephthah's Daughter
1910
9.0During 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 great coquette. He leaves her, he comes back, he forgives. But when he embarks for America, Fanny does not follow him.
Sapho
1934
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 his pocket...
Léonce: Cinematographer
1913
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Les poilus de la revanche
1915
5.0This serials played by Léon Lorin and various feminine actors, here Davrières, is full of comic elegance, parisianism of the Grands Boulevards and a real taste for fine shots. Appreciate the crossing of the Champ de Mars.
The Wooing of the Sales Lady
1914
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 intention of drowning him, but a kindly old fisherman intervenes.
The Curse of Greed
1914
