Movies: Renée Carl

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he fa...

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

A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast....

This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane old coot, he runs amok acting out his war-time heroics--smashing and throwing everything in the room!...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France....

Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own father....

Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he does indeed steal an elephant from a circus, parading it around town and using it to beg for money. Due to their rambunctiousness, Bout de Zan and the elephant...

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man....

Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears. Of course, the child is miserable even though he has everything in the world but after a weekend trip at his poor mother's house, the child realizes that...

A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins....

The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother....

A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity....

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret....

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Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as she walks though the streets of Paris....

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 husband (Rene Navarre) but history buffs will know who it is as it's April 10, 1912 and the husband is abo...

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed....

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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....

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