Léonce Perret

The story of an almost inhumanly sweet little girl who is kidnapped by scoundrels. (nytimes)

Short film about lovers on a train.

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

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man. Raymond, the young woman's fiancé, is devastated. After a few expository scenes, this extremely simple plot becomes fragmented into two mirror-like flashbacks, shown in split-screen: she dreams of her past happiness with her beloved, embracing her during a boat excursion on a pond, he has a nightmare where she is seen embracing the other man. (imdb)

A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).

Romance on the train with a bitter old governess stands in the way.

A little girl gets sick and a specialist has to be called....

A movie from Léonce Perret about a musician and his loves and heartaches.

Two suitors bring flowers to their girl in hopes of winning her love.

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

Doris Parker, the daughter of an American Marine Officer, becomes Harry Townsend's pen pal. Harry is a young American soldier with no family who has gone to fight in France. As they exchange letters, Doris falls for Harry, despite advances made by Jack Tims, a captain of the Royal Navy training with the American Marines. On the front in France, Harry's face is wounded. Overwhelmed by the news, Doris asks Jack Tims to take Harry onboard a ship he is taking to France.

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

Parody of slum tours the posh Parisian circles. A troupe of actors serving the entertainment needs with genuine Apaches'.

A moneylender kidnaps the young son of an 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. (imdb)

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...

A drama about twins who grow up separately, one with their wealthy father and the other with their poor mother; the two sisters are manipulated by a criminal.

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

Joë Hamman loves Renée Carl. but she loves another, who has rejected her. She threatens to kill herself and Hamman rides to save her.

Pierre,a marquis deeply in love with his wife Jeanne ,accidentally kills her while hunting;he wants to finish the portrait he was painting.

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.

Having been ordered to the front, a soldier entrusts his personal papers to his sister's fiancee. Soon, he too is called up. She comes upon a love letter that she mistakenly thinks is from her fiancee to another.

During a movie production, a property owner ends up shooting a actor climbing his wall, thinking he was a burglar.

Léonce Perret is a hauler, a man who literally pulls a canal barge along. He marries Yvette Andréyor, and they are happy. And amidst the beauty of a field near a canal, she dies before the marriage can be consummated, and Perret must now pull her funeral barge to her grave.

Two coal miners love the same girl. She marries one, leaving the other disconsolate. When a fire breaks out in the mine, the married man is trapped, but rescued by his friend, who dies in the effort.

A miller expels his daughter because he does not approve of her boyfriend but they are reconciled after he sees their baby.

An employer loves his stenographer, but she finds that her heart belongs to the young cashier. The elder man tires in many ways to force the girl to accept his love, but she withstands them all until finally Age bows to the superiority of Youth in affairs of love, and he finds his consolation in making the young couple happy.

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

The artist, Andrew Darel, is anxiously awaiting the result of the Hermosa competition; his room is invaded by fellow-artists and others, who crown him with laurels and inform him that he is the lucky winner of the purse of money. Amid a scene of gaiety he takes his departure for Italy, and one day, when admiring the beautiful view from Sorrento, he hears a voice singing among the orange trees. A closer view reveals to him a beautiful girl clad in the picturesque garments.

Based on the dutch paintings of lacemakers of the same time - the film depicts a poor woman’s strive for money to be able to marry her beloved; doing so by entering a local lacing competition.

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

The 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.

Suzie takes a cruise and finds a flirt behind her guardian's back.

Grand Duchess Aurora if forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph. Rudolph prepares to leave for the Congo but he is murdered by his brother. Aurora goes to Paris be with her father and enters the gay revelries there until she hears of her husband's death. She returns to the Kingdom, where she meets a tutor who falls in love with her. Together they discover her brother-in-law's treachery, and she helps her lover escape from his vengeance.

A mysterious evildoer terrifies the French Riviera. That mysterious character, which is hidden under the personality of James Pearce, a diamond-maker, calls himself The Black X.