René Génin Movies

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.

A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.

Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the...

A jealous husband (Pegotte), his wife, and a friend are returning from a night of heavy drinking. An argument breaks out and escalates into a fight....

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel,...

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...

Mild-mannered novelist of Western fiction, Amédée Lange, and his colleagues take over a publishing house after their exploitative boss...

An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.

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...

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...

When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruined.

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...

Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives near an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner....