The best Léon Larive’s romance movies

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Today we present the best Léon Larive’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Léon Larive’s movies.

Children of Paradise

Children of Paradise
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/03/1945
  • Character: Le concierge des Funambules (uncredited)
Filmed during the German occupation, this French milestone centers around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her. Voted the “Best French Film in History” by the French Film Academy in 1990.

The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game
7.9/10
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

Yoshiwara

Yoshiwara
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/06/1937
  • Character: Un marin
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 triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.

The Lower Depths

The Lower Depths
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 11/12/1936
  • Character: Félix, le valet de chambre du baron
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.

Frou-Frou

Frou-Frou
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/06/1955
  • Character: Le directeur du théâtre (uncredited)
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Messieurs Ludovic

Messieurs Ludovic
5.6/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 03/05/1946
  • Character: Le gros malade

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