Movies: Léonce Perret

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. This time, the Black X has noticed the rich jewels of a celebrated singe...

Clothilde, taken out of her convent to marry the Marquis, refuses to recognize her new husband....

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Leroy Trenchard loves Therese Verneuil, and when Leroy enters the army goes to France to fight, Therese follows as a Red Cross nurse. But suspicion arises that Therese is actually Princess Sonia, a German spy....

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

This 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....

Léonce 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?...

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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....

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 young tramp asks for help at a farm house. He is turned away. Later, as supper is being eaten, another, older tramp asks for some food. The farmer gives him some. When the farmer's daughter says he should let him stay overnight, he's given a place ...

French horror short from 1910,...

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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, ...

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret....

In times of World War I, a group of boisterous young ladies occurs to them that they could help the boys of the front writing letters to them and, thus, becoming their godmothers of war. Madeleine writes to the soldier Jacques Bertin, but, out of pru...