Léonce Perret Movies

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

Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.

Léonce 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...

A charming little couple is watched by the misfortune that hides under the disturbing and enigmatic features of a femme fatale.

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...

The Madonna gives a golden lily to the poor musician. He tries to sell it and this arouses the suspicion of the goldsmith.

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...

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

In Montreux, Marie silently loves Georges, who instead loves her sister Jeanne. At his request, Marie helps unite them, then deliberately contracts...

The noble Margrave of Hess, condemns captain Christian to exile for presuming to ask the hand of his daughter Genevieve in marriage.

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...

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...

Directed by Léonce Perret.

This serials played by Léon Lorin and various feminine actors, here Davrières, is full of comic elegance, parisianism of the Grands...

The countess Hélène de Rochegrune awaits the return of her fiancé who went to the front.