Léon Larive
Birthday: 1886-06-28
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Passion of Joan of Arc
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
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Madame Bovary
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country docto...
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La Mascotte
The turkey keeper, Bettina, brings good luck to those who make her work. She becomes the mascot of t...
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Zero for Conduct
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the ...
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The Lower Depths
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Ko...
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Two Timid Souls
Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very ef...
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Bubble Gum
Boule de Gomme is a child actor. On the set of the film he is shooting he gets on the nerves of the ...
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Un client de province
Doctor Planturel who is leaving for a vacation, hires a new servant too hastily. Now, Victor, the al...
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Le soir des rois
Georges de Frileuse is a partier who inherits a castle and a ruby necklace when his aunt dies. On ...
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Fat Man's Worries
A young lady whose husband has been seeing someone else decides to make him jealous by flirting with...
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Theodore and Company
Chénérol, a wealthy merchant, one day discovers that his wife is having an affair and that his nephe...
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The Big Bluff
Roger Latour introduces himself to Wilky Studios as the famous thief Silver Jim, and offers to fulfi...
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Casanova
Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventur...
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La dactylo se marie
A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to r...
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Minuit... place Pigalle
A Paris night club proprietor falls from grace and is reduced, after going away for a while, to work...
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L'Or dans la rue
A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is u...
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Bach the Detective
Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency ...
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Claudine at School
Poorly educated by her father, a wacky researcher, Claudine is a teenager full of life who loves her...
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Nuits de princes
In the Parisian Russian émigré community, an attractive young woman, Hélène, is torn between her hus...
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Rasputin
Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russi...
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The Tale of the Fox
In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, rec...
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Ça... c'est du sport
Trapon, a bank employee, is in love with Mrs. Lavator, who wants to marry off her two daughters befo...
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The Little Thing
Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fe...
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The Train for Venice
Discovering his wife's relationship with a middle-class snob, a husband tries his best to break this...
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Those of the Sky
An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up h...
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The Mayor's Dilemma
At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against th...
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Le Château des 4 obèses
In a castle, one stormy evening, Doctor Carter and a whole merry company find themselves welcomed by...
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Paris Romance
Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son...
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 B...
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Ici l'on pêche
A painter has his daughter brought up by a couple of innkeepers who run an establishment on the edge...
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Cavalcade of Love
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the wall...
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Sacred Woods
Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the L...
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La Grande Marnière
A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious con...
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The Honorable Catherine
Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gi...
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Cristobal's Gold
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La ...
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Fou d'amour
Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at firs...
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Opéra-musette
The itinerant musician Lampluche, having found a musical score on the banks of a river and a full wa...
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Voyage Without Hope
Gohelle, escaped from prison, seeks to flee occupied France for Argentina. The captain of a cargo sh...
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The Traveler Without Luggage
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychi...
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The Hunchback
The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers a...
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The White Blackbird
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that...
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The Bohemian Life
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe ...
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The J3
During the Second World War, in occupied Paris, a group of high school students is more active at se...
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Master Love
Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the vi...
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Homeland
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occ...
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The Revenge of Roger
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he d...
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Destiny
This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad...
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Devil in the Flesh
In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front li...
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La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds wi...
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The Crowned Fish Tavern
Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the b...
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The Killer is Listening
April fools in a studio where a radio host pretends to shoot dead all the performers....till a true ...
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Miquette
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater,...
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Here Is the Beauty
Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ...
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Wear His Heart on His Sleeve
Léon Ménard, the village verger, is a decent young man whose hobby is to play the accordion. One day...
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The Secret of Mayerling
On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetser...
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Return to Life
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war afte...
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Rendezvous in July
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians....
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Jamais deux sans trois
Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambit...
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Just Out
Satire of publishing circles, featuring a ferocious boss, Moscat, a successful but handsome author, ...
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Les deux Monsieur de Madame
Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix th...
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Le Roi des camelots
How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside...
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Without Leaving an Address
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left h...
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A Night at a Honeymoon
Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a loca...
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Paris Vice Squad
Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Be...
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Cherished by her concierge
Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretake...
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Beauties of the Night
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history....
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Trip to America
As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple ...
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La Grande Passion
This is a love story, a story of rivalry and revenge but, above all, a story about sport. The great ...
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Des quintuplés au pensionnat
In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of Champr...
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place....
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Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Television adaptation of the comedy by Eugène Labiche and Edouard Martin, written in 1860. On the Bu...
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Yoshiwara
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, ...
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All That Is Not Worth Love
Tourneur's first film tells the story of a chemist, Jules Renaudin. He welcomes a young pregnant gir...
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The Rules of the Game
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois a...
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I'll Get Back to Kandara
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec...
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Crossroads
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a...
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Children of Paradise
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater...
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Dr. Laennec
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as hi...
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Messieurs Ludovic
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different char...
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François Villon
An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vaus...
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Pasha's Wives
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a d...
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The Bellman
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown ro...
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When You Read This Letter
After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the f...
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The Mark of the Day
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up an...
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Scandals of Clochemerle
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to re...
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Life Is Ours
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat ag...
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La Marseillaise
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseil...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al...
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Frou-Frou
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career....
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever ...
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Monsieur Coccinelle
An average worker who feels downtrodden at work and home, dreams of becoming a dictator. His aunt ha...
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Le masque d'Hollywood
Dixie, a young Broadway dancer, leaves her fiancé Jimmy to go into the movies....
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The Aviator
Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on...
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Crime and Punishment
Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears th...
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