René Génin
Birthday: 1890-01-25
Place of Birth: Aix-en-Provence, France
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Lost Village
In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, ...
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The Beautiful Trip
She dragged out a more than mediocre life in the port of Antwerp; he is a renowned pianist-virtuoso....
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The Burning Court
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an anci...
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Le vertige
General Mikailoff once killed a lieutenant he mistakenly believed to be his wife's lover. Subsequent...
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Daybreak
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led h...
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The Big Risk
Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning t...
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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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Port of Shadows
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for ...
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The Lucky Star
Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns onl...
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Tu m'as sauvé la vie
A wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who kept hi...
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The Treasure of Cantenac
While he was about to end his life, Baron de Cantenac wanted to return one last time to the land of ...
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Croesus
Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is...
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Francis the First
Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is t...
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La fusée
The rise of a canning maker and then his abandonment of the factory because his ideal of social prog...
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L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon
Two horsemen are inseparable. One is smart and the other clumsy. A young girl is engaged to the clum...
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Haut comme trois pommes
Madame Dupin is the most influential character in her village. She is at odds with her daughter beca...
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The Twins of Brighton
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great ...
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Life Dances On
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him ...
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Le Choc en retour
A rich sugar factory manager wants to marry his daughter to an aristocrat, while the young girl is i...
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Nights of Fire
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murder...
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La Danseuse rouge
Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained, in ...
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Orage
The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison....
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Bouquets from Nicholas
A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who ...
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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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Ramuntcho
Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their...
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Retour au bonheur
Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and th...
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Ernest the Rebel
In South America anything can happen: the consul might give you as a snack to the sharks, you can wi...
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A Foolish Maiden
A middle-aged Parisian lawyer meets a young girl and falls in love with her. The girl's mother disco...
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Sommes-nous défendus?
In a café, sitting around a table, a journalist is explaining to three fellow-compatriots what he sa...
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Comedy of Happiness
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any s...
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The Law of Spring
The children born from a first marriage of a widower and a widower who have remarried do not get alo...
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The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the e...
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Mon oncle et mon curé
Reine, a young woman, meets for the first time a cousin of hers, Paul. She falls in love with him bu...
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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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Patricia
Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But i...
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Le valet maître
Some, like Ravier de l'Orne are born... masters, but ,like him, do not live up to their rank. Others...
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Last Desire
Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, ...
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The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fe...
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It Happened at the Inn
An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits....
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La Chèvre d'or
Legend has it that in the village of PugetMaure, a mysterious goat is the guardian of a treasure onc...
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À la Belle Frégate
It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searchi...
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Fièvres
Despite a perfect marriage and a superb career as a singer, Jean Dupray cheats on his wife. She dies...
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Adémaï bandit d'honneur
Ademaï is very happy to spend a vacation month in Corsica, invited by his family; when he arrives, m...
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Le moussaillon
The son of a sailor, who seduced and abandoned the mother, doesn't get along with the new man, a clo...
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My Love is Near You
An opera singer is stricken with amnesia and, on the evening of a premiere (in his stage costume whi...
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27, rue de la Paix
A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimon...
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The Ménard Collection
Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she ...
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Judex
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmake...
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The Last Penny
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks t...
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Au pays des cigales
A song editor from Marseille meets the daughter of a showman whom a competitor wants to ruin to get ...
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The Hunting Ground
In a small village, a farmer discovers his wife has committed suicide, but suspicions of murder aris...
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Behind These Walls
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by...
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Majestic Hotel Cellars
In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, find...
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Jenny
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny...
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The King of Dodgers
Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a musician ...
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The Sea Rose
Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hi...
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Le Bateau à soupe
Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog ...
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The Heart of a Nation
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of t...
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The London Man
Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes th...
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and inci...
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Les Dieux du dimanche
A soccer enthusiast like his father, Martin Lambert is the (gifted) goalkeeper of the local team. He...
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L’atomique Monsieur Placido
A gangster, thief of atomic formulas, has a double in the person of a naive musician. A music hall a...
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Tête blonde
When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be...
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God Needs Men
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their...
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The Lovers of Verona
Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magi...
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L'inconnu d'un soir
Edith, a young orphan, is exploited as a waitress and bullied by her adoptive father. But she has a ...
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The Dream Vagabonds
The Dombreval troupe is the last vestige of an outdated form of entertainment: the traveling theatre...
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Raphaël le tatoué
Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Ro...
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The Passenger
When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruine...
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Love and Companionship
The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible ...
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Under the Paris Sky
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. ...
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Bizarre, Bizarre
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pret...
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Le chemin de la drogue
A young customs officer is given an important mission: to investigate drug trafficking on the Belgia...
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The Lovers of Bras-Mort
Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love w...
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Forbidden Fruit
A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young wom...
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Le clochard milliardaire
Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a fabu...
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The Red Needle
A young woman, Maya, is treated in a mountain hotel, where her husband joins her every Saturday. She...
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Savage Triangle
Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one b...
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Piédalu à Paris
Piedalu is an ordinary villager, who comes to the capital to present his financial plan to the Minis...
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The Wild Oat
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother ...
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L'Enquête du 58
A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper. ...
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Cadet Rousselle
The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortu...
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The Sheep Has Five Legs
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fern...
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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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Black Dossier
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential no...
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The Law Is the Law
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the...
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The Phantom Wagon
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a...
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L'aventure est au coin de la rue
A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is ...
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Quand te tues-tu ?
A viscount is ruined and wants to commit suicide. A young noceur pursued by his creditors is to inhe...
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Sexpot
Coveted by many of the men around her, the sensual Nathalie is a magnet for passion. After many adve...
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Casse-cou, mademoiselle!
Working for a stock-car team, Robert dreams of becoming a racing driver himself. For a long time thi...
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A Cage of Nightingales
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music ...
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L'Accroche-cœur
A seasoned con-man devises an elaborate plan to relieve a rich socialite of a hefty chunk of her for...
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Jaloux comme un tigre
Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he spends m...
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My Uncle from Texas
In 1911, Arnolphe Combalette left his corner of Provence to seek his fortune in the Americas. Fifty ...
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Monsieur Octave
Monsieur Octave, a good man who has retired from the French national railway company, wants to have ...
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La salamandre d'or
In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Cha...
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man ...
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Cab Number 13
To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's ...
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How Not to Rob a Department Store
To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty i...
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Fric-Frac
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store....
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Girls in Distress
Somewhat reminiscent of 'Mädchen in Uniform' (1931), the story is set in a private girl's school, po...
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Boys' School
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, af...
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Nightclub Hostess
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night sh...
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The Last Penny
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks t...
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The Eleventh Hour Guest
An inventor has just developed an extraordinary machine, a disintegrating ray and thought detector. ...
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Pierre and Jean
Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls in ...
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Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an ada...
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The House Under the Sea
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien...
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Confessions of a Newlywed
A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their hone...
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Sur le plancher des vaches
A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity....
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The Farm of Seven Sins
In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French m...
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The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person dec...
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The Twins of Brighton
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great ...
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The Lafleur Cavalryman
The reservist Lafleur, having a wife, a mistress and still running after the first petticoat that co...
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Satan's Paradise
Driven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission of l...
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Paméla
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the ...
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Cocagne
As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, a...
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Fromont Young and Risler Elder
An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists....
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Eyes Without a Face
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daug...
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Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One ...
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Pour le maillot jaune
The romantic relationship between a sports journalist and a cyclist during the Tour de France....
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The Moment of Truth
After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for yea...
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Le Secret d'une mère
After his wife's death, a man discovers that his daughter may not be his....
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Mademoiselle Swing
Stuck in Angoulême between her uncle, who composes classical music, and her aunt, who is a fan of co...
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Full House
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and...
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Les Gaîtés de la finance
The banker Marivol looks like a tailor, Lambinet. Gangsters threaten the first, who hires the second...
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Glamador
Fafai, a young boy, lives with his grandfather on the island of Glamador in the Camargue. To help th...
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Second Childhood
Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own ...
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Napoleon Road
A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon...
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The Man from Nowhere
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely...
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