
Acting
Yves Rénier
Born 1942-09-29 · Bern, Switzerland
Yves Rénier (29 September 1942 – 24 April 2021) was a French actor, director, screenwriter, and voice actor, best known for starring in the long running television series Commissaire Moulin (1976-2006). The cause of his death, in France at age 78, was revealed by his wife to have been due to a heart attack. He reportedly suffered from a cardiac ailment, for which he'd undergone surgery three years prior to his death. He was the son of dramatist Max Régnier. Source: Article "Yves Rénier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Acting credits
6.7The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Frantic
1988
7.1Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
The Count of Monte Cristo
1961
6.1A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.
Guardian Angels
1995
4.0Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac...
The Race
2002
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Philosophale
2001
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Figaro-ci, Figaro-là
1972
6.2The Belgian and French police investigate the activities of Michel Fourniret, a serial killer who was active on both sides of the border.
La Traque
2021
6.2Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AIDS and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.
Thank You, Life
1991
5.3Michel, a psycho-analyst, falls asleep while listening to his patient Olga, a kleptomaniac and a sexual pervert, tell him how she likes her husband beating her. When he wakes up, he finds Olga having been choked to death. He now has to deal with a body, with Olga's rich husband who thinks she stole money from him, and with all his patients' insanity that haunts him.
Mortal Transfer
2001
6.0Baron Yves de Kerfunte learns of his uncle's death. Overjoyed, he is astonished to discover that seven other individuals are vying for the inheritance. Worse still, when they open the will, they learn that only the elderly Louise de Kerfunte is the heiress, and that she intends to squander the money quickly.
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
1969
7.0A story about twelve years old Vincent Leblanc whose brilliant mind often helps his family, but sometimes causes a lot of problems...
The Gifted
1997
9.0In a major pharmaceutical laboratory, 8 terrified employees are taken hostage by a commando using astonishing methods. Every two hours, a different hostage is inoculated with a poison... Angèle Garry, a woman of character, rebel and maverick, and Antoine Pradeau, an outstanding negotiator, are responsible for resolving this affair together... while they just broke up. Who are these men? What do they want? How far will they go? Angèle has 6 hours to answer these questions and avoid a bloodbath...
Otages
2009
4.5The film concerns the famed 19th century French writer, proto feminist George Sand, in discussion with the new early 1970s feminist movement and a critique of the limitations of her progressivism.
George Who?
1973
3.3The unique distinction of this standard comedy drama is that it is the first foreign, feature-length movie filmed in mainland China. Novice director Camille de Casabianca obtained permission from the authorities and set up her story around Valerie (Christine Citti), a woman who follows Yves (Yves Renier), the man she loves, to China. Yves is a journalist assigned to report on Western tourists behind the Bamboo Curtain, and it is an unintentionally comical group of tourists at that.
Pékin Central
1986
6.5In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Peppermint Soda
1977
4.225-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police force. But as his mother says: "That's France for you! A country where everyone has a chance."
Beur sur la ville
2011
4.9Middle-aged best friends Eddie and Patsy live in an endless haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. The duo leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated — be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing. Waking up from a night of drunken debauchery, the two dip right into a feast of champagne and caviar, much to the irritation of Eddie's elegant mother and her resentful daughter. As Eddie stretches an appalling pair of leopard-print leotards (complete with matching shoes, purse, and hat) over her massive rear end, she and Patsy learn of a handsome young rollerblading delivery boy who quickly becomes the object of their lust.
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Chacun pour moi
1985
3.8Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over their mother's custody.
I Love You Coiffure
2020
8.0A young man who lives with his aunt falls for a free-spirited German model in this uninspired drama. Although he runs off with her for the summer, he returns to his aunt to live off her money after the model and an old flame rekindle their romance. The story unfolds in a series of flashbacks.
The Big Softie
1967
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Sentiments partagés
2002
6.5Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides to be revenged on women and his inmates teach him how to seduce and exploit them.As soon as he is released from prison he places a personal ad in a newspaper. This is how the newly self-appointed "cynical Don Juan" will meet three creatures: Florence, Gisèle and Henriette. Who will eat who?
Be Careful Ladies
1963
NRClaire is a single mom raising Marius, 12, and Zoë, 8. Her scant income is barely enough to keep her children from being taken away by Social Services. When Marius is hit by a car -- albeit with no serious consequences -- things change unpredictably.
Stroke of Luck
2014
6.0The life of the inhabitants of a village in the Drôme region during the debacle of May-June 1940. Liberated, Cyprien Boromès returns to his village to learn that his daughter Rosine has had a child out of wedlock with the mayor's son, Bruno Besson.
The Most Beautiful Month
1968
Behind the camera
6.2The Belgian and French police investigate the activities of Michel Fourniret, a serial killer who was active on both sides of the border.
La Traque
2021
7.7On Monday, September 10, 2012, Jacqueline Sauvage shot her husband the back three times. She then learned that their son had just committed suicide. And so the most publicized trial in recent years commenced.
Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me
2018
6.4Serial killer Guy Georges' hunt by a female captain who created a DNA database that revolutionized the police methods.
Flic tout simplement
2015
7.0A woman replaces a co-worker as a medical doctor at La Sante prison in Paris.
Médecin-chef à la Santé
2012
6.7In September 1986, two children were brutally killed in the suburbs of Metz. This is the beginning of "The Patrick Dils Affair", one of the most emblematic judicial errors in the annals of French justice.
I Just Wanted to Go Home
2017
6.7In September 1986, two children were brutally killed in the suburbs of Metz. This is the beginning of "The Patrick Dils Affair", one of the most emblematic judicial errors in the annals of French justice.
I Just Wanted to Go Home
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kidnapping
2005