The best Pierre Léon’s movies

Pierre Léon

Pierre Léon

11/11/1959 (64 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Pierre Léon’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Pierre Léon.
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Mrs. Hyde

Mrs. Hyde
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 28/03/2018
  • Character: L'inspecteur (The Inspector)
Mrs. Géquil is an eccentric teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she now be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained?

Bye Bye Blondie

Bye Bye Blondie
5.2/10
A Love Story Of Two Women Who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth.

The Portuguese Woman

The Portuguese Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 28/02/2019
  • Character: Velho Criado
North of Italy, the von Ketten dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are running about the presence of that 'foreign' in the castle. Some say she's a heretic. Until one day, the Bishop of Trento ends up dying and, with the signature of peace, falls the background of von Ketten's life. Will the Portuguese win, where death seems to be moving in?

La France

La France
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/09/2007
  • Character: Alfred
During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.

The Idiot

The Idiot
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/08/2008
  • Character: General Epanchin
Léon returns to Dostoevsky to film an episode from The Idiot, starring Jeanne Balibar as the femme fatale Nastassia Philippovna, who finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky (film historian Bernard Eisenschitz). Another is the opportunistic Ganya (Serge Bozon), whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Enter Rogozhin, who offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And of course, the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, who loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her. Shot in elegant black-and-white with a peerless cast, The Idiot distills the power of Dostoevsky’s great novel into a singular hour of cinema.

Electra, for Instance

Electra, for Instance
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/01/2013
  • Character: Pierre
Balibar, well-known as an actress and singer, left none of her talents unused in her directing debut. In this eclectic homage to Greek tragedy, Balibar and Léon are free of any convention. With a cameo by Barbet Schroeder.

Right Here Right Now

Right Here Right Now
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/06/2016
  • Character: Léon Méchain
Nora is a bright young professional whose new job at a financial firm turns out to be a trial by fire when she learns that her bosses share a tumultuous history with her prickly mathematician father. Meanwhile, an interoffice romance with a competitive colleague leads to even more complications, leaving Nora to navigate a minefield of delicate relationships as she climbs the corporate ladder.

The Bridge of Arts

The Bridge of Arts
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/11/2004
  • Character: Un spectateur du Nô
The film is a love story which tells the impossible tale of two youths who have never before met. The action unrolls in Paris between 1979 and 1980.

The Habit of a Young Man

The Habit of a Young Man
  • Release: 07/06/2019
It could have been a normal day for Virgile, but that's not the way it turned out. After being the victim of a strange attack, the young man is then forced to share a dressing room with Robert Lesmur, the main actor of the play in which he plays an extra. A disturbing character, Robert stimulates feelings in Virgile that will quickly overwhelm him.

Correspondences

Correspondences
6.1/10
Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a testimony of the profound friendship between the two poets, letters of longing and of desire to “fill years of distance with hours of conversation”. Through excerpts and verses, a dialog is established, revealing their divergent opinions but mostly their strong bond, and their efforts to preserve it until their last breaths.

The Adolescent

The Adolescent
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/2001
Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.

Edouard and Charles

Edouard and Charles

All the Fine Promises

All the Fine Promises
6.7/10
Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress who is still alive. Her journey to find this mysterious woman takes her to places and people from her childhood that she thought she'd left behind forever.

The Girl and the River

The Girl and the River
5.6/10
  • Release: 20/05/2014
Nouk and Samuel are in love, young, over-possessive and clumsy. One day Nouk abruptly loses Samuel. He ends up in limbo. Will Nouk’s crazy hope tear him away from the afterlife ?

Octobre

Octobre
7.1/10
  • Release: 25/10/2006
A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment.

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