René Donnio
Actor · 1889 – 1934 · Loudéac, Côtes d'Armor, France
Movies20
Movie6.3DramaRomanceDenise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crushes all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
Au Bonheur des Dames
1930 · 36 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.
Movie4.8DramaAdventureParis, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
Cagliostro
1929 · 9 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much-appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and imagines that he is related to a king who goes incognito.
MovieDramaWarDuring the Russo-Japanese War, an English officer on the ship of the Japanese falls in love with the wife of the commander.
La bataille
1934
Movie7.0Set in Rumania, the film focuses on a female secret agent who intends to use an airplane to fly behind enemy lines. While she awaits her flight to destiny, the girl spends several days with a French flying squadron. Her sexy presence causes the pilots to begin fighting among themselves, resulting in disaster for all concerned.
Movie6.4ComedyBased on the popular stage play by Georges Courteline. The film is set in 1885. It focuses on a group of troops, a mix of regulars and reservists, and their different responses to the daily military routines. A crisis emerges when a General pays a visit while two deserters are still absent.
Movie5.7MusicRomanceAn innocent girl is mistaken for one of the loose women at a Christmas Eve party and is pursued by a young man who doesn't know where she lives.
Un soir de réveillon
1933 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaA widower sends his son Dédé to boarding school, falls in love with a young woman and gradually neglects the child, not out of disaffection but because of routine. The little boy is helpless: he feels he has been completely forsaken - Fortunately, things improve: Dédé ends up finding a new mummy.
Son autre amour
1934 · 1 votes
Movie5.7AdventureDramaInflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.
Movie7.0ComedyFilm adaptation of Georges Feydeau's 1908 stage farce.
Movie5.9DramaJacques Prémont-Solène is a degenerate gambler and his losses at baccarat have bankrupted his lover, Laure Maresco. When he steals four hundred thousand francs and loses that at the gambling tables, he flees to the United States, and Nathalie takes the blame. Twenty years later, she has a flourishing career as a nightclub singer, but their son is just as inept a gambler as his father had been.
- Movie10.0ComedyDrama
Movie6.0MysteryThe story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is soon suspected of being the devil.
Movie7.0ComedyO-Kay Agency, run by Monsieur Dubois, will supply anything you like. Even what you do not particularly crave : for instance, Max, the agency's gifted employee made Sam, a millionaire, buy a bath just by putting an attractive young lady in it ! But what Dubois does not know is that, besides being able to close sales brilliantly, Max also dreams of becoming a professional singer.
- Movie10.0Comedy
Le nègre blanc
1925 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaFirst adaptation of Joseph Kessel World War I novel, in which an aviator falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the wife of one of his flying comrades.
- Movie10.0Drama
Four classmates decide to perform a love song that their friend, Pierre, composed for Marie. Novac, another admirer of Marie, is murdered. Pierre suspects one of the four of being the killer, but incriminates himself, believing that Marie was in love with the killer.
Les quatre vagabonds
1931 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyBarranco
1932 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaCoquecigrole
1931 · 1 votes