René Navarre

Judex the vigilante enjoins crooked banker Maurice-Ernest Favraux to distribute his ill-gotten fortune to the city's poor. The thugs decide to kidnap...

A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy patients to take a mistress when he feels attracted...

The son of two teachers hits the road and becomes a singing success after being taken in as a protege by a kooky countess.

A painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover intervenes to prevent her from being happy and succeeds in...

A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads him to Normandy. There he discovers, with the...

12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army.

The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate about radio. Coco, the fiancé of Jacqueline...

A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage.

On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified...

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.

A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.

A mother (Renee Carl) goes to see a palm reader who informs her that a loved one is about to die. The woman doesn't know if it's her son or her...

The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.

A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.

The patriotic melodrama, set during WWI, revolves around a thief played by René Navarre.

Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later...

This 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau against the Republicans in Western France...

The story revolves around a smuggler (René Navarre) who rescues a young lady trapped in the canyon. Some rock-climbing shots at the beginning...

A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.

A beginning of a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade from 1911-1913

A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless...

the man who has come a long way

Silent film

If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.

On his way to visit his mistress, a man has a serious car accident. His wife cares for him with such devotion that he rediscovers his love for her.

A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two scoundrels plot to rob her of the diamond before she...

Part of Feuillade's 'Life As It Is' series

When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed of the city's absent ruler, who must return in...

An adaptation of the first part of Balzac's History of the Thirteen, centered on the secret society of the Thirteen and helmed by René Navarre...

Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.

François Vidocq has deserted to go back to his wife and kids, so he becomes a thief. Unfortunately, he finds she had become Manon-la-blonde,...

The voyages of Pierre Savorgnan de Brassa through Africa. This great explorer, the founder of Brazzaville (Congo), was born in Italy but chose France...

Leopoldo Quintana is a lawyer who, determined to reach power and capable of anything to get what he wants, uses blackmail and shady maneuvers to be...

An average worker who feels downtrodden at work and home, dreams of becoming a dictator. His aunt has her own fantasy that the love-of-her-life, a...