René Génin Movies

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent...

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

An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.

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

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...

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...

A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young woman. As their relationship deepens, he becomes...

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,...

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.

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...

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...

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...

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...