Pierre Léon

Pierre Léon

Born: November 11, 1959
in Moscow, Russia
Pierre Léon was born on November 11, 1959 in Moscow, Russia. He is an actor and director, known for L'idiot (2008), L'adolescent (2001) and Guillaume et les sortilèges (2007).

Movies for Pierre Léon...

Edouard and Charles
Title: Edouard and Charles
Character: Charles
Released: June 12, 2024
Type: Movie
Paris, at the beginning of the 21st century. Edouard is a painter, Charles is a poet. The two artists are friends, but their adverse circumstances begin to weigh on them. Gulcan, a foreigner, suddenly appears. He has an idea.
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The Tiniest Castle of the Nation Found (and for Sale!)
Title: The Tiniest Castle of the Nation Found (and for Sale!)
Released: December 17, 2023
Type: Movie
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A Safe Place
Title: A Safe Place
Released: October 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Alain lives locked up in a large house with his husband, Raphael. They were about to renovate the place and turn it into a bed and breakfast. A new virus, still unknown, poisoning the air, stops them in their dream. Alain is now obsessed with the idea of protecting Raphael, whose health is fragile. But the latter is suffocating, for him it is the house that is unhealthy, as if haunted.
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COOL (News from Belarus)
Title: COOL (News from Belarus)
Character: Benoit Barnum (segment "Nano")
Released: June 8, 2023
Type: Movie
In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.
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My Dear Spies
Title: My Dear Spies
Released: January 4, 2023
Type: Movie
Two brothers, Pierre and Vladimir, wonder if their Russian grandparents, Lily and Constantin, worked for the Soviet secret services in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s. Their research begins in Russia. After meetings and conversations, yellowish photos and vodka glasses, a lost world begins to emerge harassing the present.
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The Kegelstatt Trio
Title: The Kegelstatt Trio
Character: Paul
Released: January 26, 2022
Type: Movie
Paul and Adèle were once lovers and separated but are still good friends, one year after everything seems to take them away from each other. The key of E-flat may be the key of true friendship, but it is Mozart that pushes them apart...
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Une habitude de jeune homme
Title: Une habitude de jeune homme
Character: The newspaper seller
Released: June 7, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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The Portuguese Woman
Title: The Portuguese Woman
Character: Velho Criado
Released: February 28, 2019
Type: Movie
North of Italy, the von Kettens 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 'foreigner' 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?
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Mrs. Hyde
Title: Mrs. Hyde
Character: L'inspecteur (The Inspector)
Released: March 28, 2018
Type: Movie
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?
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Barbara
Title: Barbara
Character: Jacques Tournier (jeune)
Released: September 6, 2017
Type: Movie
When a director sets out to make a film about popular French singer Barbara, both he and the actress who is to play her are overwhelmed by the project.
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Correspondences
Title: Correspondences
Released: August 4, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Right Here Right Now
Title: Right Here Right Now
Character: Léon Méchain
Released: June 22, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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The Girl and the River
Title: The Girl and the River
Character: Admissions employee
Released: November 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Nouk and Samuel love each other, but they are young and possessive and awkward. One day, Nouk abruptly loses Samuel, who finds himself in limbo.
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Biette
Title: Biette
Character: Self
Released: June 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.
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Electra, for Instance
Title: Electra, for Instance
Character: Pierre
Released: January 20, 2013
Type: Movie
An homage to Greek tragedy.
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Bye Bye Blondie
Title: Bye Bye Blondie
Character: Invité Lutetia
Released: March 21, 2012
Type: Movie
A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth.
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House of Pleasures
Title: House of Pleasures
Character: A customer
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: Movie
The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
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The Idiot
Title: The Idiot
Character: General Epanchin
Released: August 7, 2008
Type: Movie
Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.
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Adieu la rue des radiateurs – Nina
Title: Adieu la rue des radiateurs – Nina
Released: June 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Writer Mathieu Riboulet read an excerpt from his work "Le Regard de la source" at home. In this passage emerges a portrait of a woman "neither a close friend nor a relative, but certainly a little like one and a little like the other": Nina. The words read aloud are careful and precious, evoking the woman's recent death and her friendship with the author. Then images from the past emerge, with the smooth, fragile texture of old video tapes, taking us back to yesterday and the past - the Moscow of twenty years ago - to a world that seems more irrevocably lost than ever .
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La France
Title: La France
Character: Alfred
Released: September 21, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Octobre
Title: Octobre
Released: October 25, 2006
Type: Movie
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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Jean-Jacques
Title: Jean-Jacques
Character: Elève
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Alexandre, a thirty-year old tailor, has decided to improve his cultural level. That is the reason why he has decided to attend an evening school. The lessons are given in the classroom of an elementary class by a teacher named Etienne. The subject of the course is : "The solitude of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Will Alexandre become another man after grappling with with Rousseau, Diderot and ... Etienne? - Guy Bellinger
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The Bridge of Arts
Title: The Bridge of Arts
Character: Un spectateur du Nô
Released: November 10, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Nissim dit Max
Title: Nissim dit Max
Released: July 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Two sons, Pierre and Vladimir, question their father, Max Léon, about his biography in a domestic environment. What could be a simple family chat expands to the complex dimensions of history, since his life is that of a certain destiny, first involved in the resistance, then as a major activist in the Communist Party. The two archivists widen the circle to listen to the testimonies of their mother, Svettlana, their sister, Michèle, and other witnesses, comrades in utopia: Jacques Rossi, a former Komintern agent deported to the Gulag, and Marina Vlady, who lived in the USSR in the 1930s and was the wife of the protest singer Vladimir Vyssotsky. History is filtered through conversations that do not exclude silence or questioning. – FIDMarseille
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Le Dieu Saturne
Title: Le Dieu Saturne
Character: Hermès
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Laurent comes to visit his father not far from Bethune. But his father, who lives a hermit's life deep in the woods, has only one thing on his mind : to do away with his six children in order to relieve them of the miseries of life. Welcomed at the Caboche farm where his brother Frederic works (Frederic advises him not to try to see their father), Laurent is delighted to see hardy 81 year old Alfred again. The gods are not far off, and, despite all, the pleasures of existence too.
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All the Fine Promises
Title: All the Fine Promises
Character: Adrien
Released: January 25, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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The Adolescent
Title: The Adolescent
Character: Benoît Barnum
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Le Dieu Mozart
Title: Le Dieu Mozart
Character: Benoît Barnum
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Li per li
Title: Li per li
Character: Farlaf
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Five extraterrestrials like no other are enjoying their last moments on planet Earth. Only one will stay to keep the secrets.
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Les cinéphiles 2 : Eric a disparu
Title: Les cinéphiles 2 : Eric a disparu
Character: Pierre
Released: May 24, 1989
Type: Movie
Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles.
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Les cinéphiles : Le retour de Jean
Title: Les cinéphiles : Le retour de Jean
Character: Pierre
Released: May 3, 1989
Type: Movie
Esther and André are a part of a group of young people. They go to the cinema and speak about it often. They love each other from time to time; the group eventually comes undone. Jean is in fact the only true cinema enthusiast. Coming back from the cinema, he watches TV and thinks that, certainly, the cinema is buried well and truly.