Léon Larive Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He...

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...

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

Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer...

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

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...

After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister....

Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very efficient... Two years after, Garadoux is trying to...

Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to...

In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of Champrès' son.

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...

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