Léon Larive Movies

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming...

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious...

Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with...

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel,...

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.

A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.

A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the...

Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new...

A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships...

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second...

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt...

Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband...

Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at first sight with a pretty female customer. He finds...

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love...

A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because...