René Génin
- Popularity : 1.535
- Known For : Acting
- Birthday : 1890-01-25
- Place of Birth : Aix-en-Provence, France
5.4 1947 HD
In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the...
9.5 1947 HD
She dragged out a more than mediocre life in the port of Antwerp; he is a renowned pianist-virtuoso. These two solitary beings, totally different,...
5 1962 HD
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group...
1 1933 HD
1 1935 HD
General Mikailoff once killed a lieutenant he mistakenly believed to be his wife's lover. Subsequently, she meets Henri de Cassel, so different from...
7.6 1939 HD
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the led him to the killing.
7.1 1960 HD
Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to...
7.3 1936 HD
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel,...
7.427 1938 HD
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate,...
4.7 1943 HD
Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns only Maurice, son of an important wholesaler,...
5.4 1950 HD
A wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who kept him alive a bit longer, when he was almost run over...
5.6 1950 HD
While he was about to end his life, Baron de Cantenac wanted to return one last time to the land of his ancestors. He then discovers a treasure that...
6.2 1960 HD
Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be...
5.8 1937 HD
Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera...
1 1933 HD
The rise of a canning maker and then his abandonment of the factory because his ideal of social progress for his workers is undermined by the Board...
1 1934 HD
Two horsemen are inseparable. One is smart and the other clumsy. A young girl is engaged to the clumsy but she falls in love with the smart one.
1 1936 HD
Madame Dupin is the most influential character in her village. She is at odds with her daughter because the latter married a showman.
7 1936 HD
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
7 1937 HD
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth,...
6.9 1937 HD
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their...
1 1937 HD
A rich sugar factory manager wants to marry his daughter to an aristocrat, while the young girl is in love with an engineer, employed in a rival...
1 1937 HD
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence...
1 1937 HD
Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained, in spite of herself, in the nets of the secret...
6.5 1938 HD
The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.
1 1938 HD
A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who use him to smuggle drugs.
1 1938 HD
In the Parisian Russian émigré community, an attractive young woman, Hélène, is torn between her husband, her lover, and...
1 1938 HD
Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their contraband across the border into Spain. He is...
8 1942 HD
Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and therefore abandons her home. Badly supervised, her...
5.5 1938 HD
In South America anything can happen: the consul might give you as a snack to the sharks, you can wind up as a working man (slave) in a banana...
5 1938 HD
A middle-aged Parisian lawyer meets a young girl and falls in love with her. The girl's mother discovers the affair and the couple must flee.
1 1938 HD
In a café, sitting around a table, a journalist is explaining to three fellow-compatriots what he saw on the Maginot Line at the borders...
6.4 1940 HD
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...
6 1942 HD
The children born from a first marriage of a widower and a widower who have remarried do not get along. Frequent quarrels break out in the household...
6 1942 HD
The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub...
1 1939 HD
Reine, a young woman, meets for the first time a cousin of hers, Paul. She falls in love with him but she soon leans that Paul is engaged to Blanche,...
7.2 1942 HD
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.
1 1942 HD
Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt...
1 1941 HD
Some, like Ravier de l'Orne are born... masters, but ,like him, do not live up to their rank. Others, like Gustave Morillon, are... born masters,...
1 1939 HD
Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was...
1 1940 HD
Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and...
6.8 1943 HD
An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.
1 1943 HD
Legend has it that in the village of PugetMaure, a mysterious goat is the guardian of a treasure once abandoned by the Saracens. Norette, the mayor's...
1 1943 HD
It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy...
5 1942 HD
Despite a perfect marriage and a superb career as a singer, Jean Dupray cheats on his wife. She dies while listening to the song he dedicated to her,...
3.2 1943 HD
Ademaï is very happy to spend a vacation month in Corsica, invited by his family; when he arrives, much to his surprise, all the male relatives...
1 1942 HD
The son of a sailor, who seduced and abandoned the mother, doesn't get along with the new man, a clockmaker, the woman weds. He turns to delinquent...
1 1943 HD
An opera singer is stricken with amnesia and, on the evening of a premiere (in his stage costume which is that of a tramp), he goes to wander with...
5 1936 HD
A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse...
1 1944 HD
Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul...
6.895 1963 HD
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the...
6.3 1946 HD
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the...
1 1946 HD
A song editor from Marseille meets the daughter of a showman whom a competitor wants to ruin to get the hand of the young woman.
6.5 1951 HD
In a small village, a farmer discovers his wife has committed suicide, but suspicions of murder arise, dividing the community. Amidst the conflict,...
5.8 1946 HD
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to...
4.8 1945 HD
In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, finds the corpse of Mrs Petersen,...
5.9 1936 HD
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner...
1 1945 HD
Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a musician in the same orchestra, they meet Arlette Sicleton...
5 1946 HD
Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hired by the uncle to scuttle the ship...
6 1947 HD
Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows...
5.8 1943 HD
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the...
5.9 1943 HD
Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes the witness of a murder: for a simple suitcase...
6.6 1947 HD
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock...
1 1949 HD
A soccer enthusiast like his father, Martin Lambert is the (gifted) goalkeeper of the local team. He falls in love with Jeanette and soon marries...
1 1950 HD
A gangster, thief of atomic formulas, has a double in the person of a naive musician. A music hall artist who makes eyes at the musician is deceived...
3 1950 HD
When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be a good deal, he takes it home but discovers a...
6.2 1950 HD
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as...
5 1949 HD
Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the...
1 1949 HD
Edith, a young orphan, is exploited as a waitress and bullied by her adoptive father. But she has a dream: she wants to become a star. One day the...
1 1949 HD
The Dombreval troupe is the last vestige of an outdated form of entertainment: the traveling theatre. Mireille is the director, strong, courageous,...
5.6 1939 HD
Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Roger Drapeau. One evening, Modeste leaves his post...
1 1949 HD
When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruined.
1 1950 HD
The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South...
7 1951 HD
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
6.9 1937 HD
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their...
1 1953 HD
A young customs officer is given an important mission: to investigate drug trafficking on the Belgian border. Incognito, he goes to the place where...
7 1951 HD
Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat...
5.7 1952 HD
A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young woman. As their relationship deepens, he becomes...
1 1951 HD
Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a fabulous fortune from an eccentric uncle. But on the...
1 1951 HD
A young woman, Maya, is treated in a mountain hotel, where her husband joins her every Saturday. She falls in love with an attractive lawyer, who has...
6 1951 HD
Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one boy’s unconditional love for his mother,...
2 1951 HD
Piedalu is an ordinary villager, who comes to the capital to present his financial plan to the Minister of Renovation, and finds it difficult to find...
6.7 1953 HD
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's...
9 1945 HD
A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper. Two inspectors come to investigate the affair....
4.9 1954 HD
The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a...
5.7 1954 HD
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.
7 1944 HD
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability...
6.1 1955 HD
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious...
7.154 1958 HD
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent...
7.2 1939 HD
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's...
4.2 1944 HD
A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside,...
1 1953 HD
A viscount is ruined and wants to commit suicide. A young noceur pursued by his creditors is to inherit 60 million on condition that he marries a...
1 1957 HD
Coveted by many of the men around her, the sensual Nathalie is a magnet for passion. After many adventures and dramas, she will find the happiness...
1 1955 HD
Working for a stock-car team, Robert dreams of becoming a racing driver himself. For a long time this is only a pipe dream until one day fortune...
7.4 1945 HD
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his...
9 1938 HD
A seasoned con-man devises an elaborate plan to relieve a rich socialite of a hefty chunk of her fortune but her falling in love with him complicates...
2 1964 HD
Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he spends much of his time watching his wife's every move,...
1 1962 HD
In 1911, Arnolphe Combalette left his corner of Provence to seek his fortune in the Americas. Fifty years later, a letter from him arrived in the...
1 1951 HD
Monsieur Octave, a good man who has retired from the French national railway company, wants to have his house built. To this end he contacts a loan...
1 1962 HD
In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon...
7 1936 HD
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee...
1 1948 HD
To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is...
1 1965 HD
To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs.
6.2 1939 HD
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
4.5 1939 HD
Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied...
7.3 1938 HD
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them...
6 1939 HD
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would...
6.3 1946 HD
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the...
1 1945 HD
An inventor has just developed an extraordinary machine, a disintegrating ray and thought detector. He experiences it one evening on a group of...
6.4 1943 HD
Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls in love with a young doctor and plans to run away...
1 1936 HD
A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore...
6 1947 HD
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love,...
5.4 1937 HD
A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a...
3.5 1940 HD
A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.
5.7 1949 HD
In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had...
1 1947 HD
When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found...
7 1936 HD
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
5 1934 HD
The reservist Lafleur, having a wife, a mistress and still running after the first petticoat that comes along, his namesake, an active soldier, finds...
1 1938 HD
Driven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission of leading to ruin, under cover of administering it,...
5.7 1945 HD
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
4 1961 HD
As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, and their two children. When...
6 1941 HD
An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
7.6 1960 HD
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who...
6.971 1951 HD
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up...
4 1940 HD
The romantic relationship between a sports journalist and a cyclist during the Tour de France.
5.3 1952 HD
After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of...
3 1952 HD
After his wife's death, a man discovers that his daughter may not be his.
5 1942 HD
Stuck in Angoulême between her uncle, who composes classical music, and her aunt, who is a fan of contemporary music, young Irène finds...
6.6 1952 HD
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
5 1936 HD
The banker Marivol looks like a tailor, Lambinet. Gangsters threaten the first, who hires the second as a double. The latter accepts ignoring...
10 1958 HD
Fafai, a young boy, lives with his grandfather on the island of Glamador in the Camargue. To help the old man who can no longer work, Fafai finds a...
1 1939 HD
Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own reservations, Georges falls in love with the...
1 1945 HD
4 1953 HD
A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon slept in the local inn on his was back from Elbe...