Serge Renko

Serge Renko

Movies for Serge Renko...

Smalltown Boys
Title: Smalltown Boys
Character: Mathieu
Released: November 5, 2022
Type: Movie
A young man seems to be dreaming of a reality different from the business he is about to take over and the married life that goes with it; he is drawn to the spicy life of a queer vaudeville troupe performing in his village.
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Fabien
Title: Fabien
Character: Monsieur Verdier
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: Movie
Fabien is a carer in a residence for dependent persons. Among his missions, the young man reads for Mr Verdier, a man who is neither speaking nor walking. One day, while he is reading him poetry, Fabien notices that his auditor's eyes linger on some parts of his body. Under an impulse, he proposes to take him on a walk.
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La Lévitation de la princesse Karnak
Title: La Lévitation de la princesse Karnak
Released: January 29, 2021
Type: Movie
An unknown, shapeless disaster happens. Paris must be evacuated. Two friends, Camille and Paul, set out to find shelter in a remote village in Italy, where Paul's brother lives.
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Les passages secrets
Title: Les passages secrets
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
An undefined territory and time. An unspoken war is fought against men who were trying to run away from it. Mehdi lost his father there. He inherited a debt. He became a smuggler.
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Title: Crossing Lines
Character: Warden Duval
Released: August 22, 2013
Type: TV
Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five international cops, headed by Captain Daniel. The team - comprised of individuals who have little in common - must learn to live and work under the most dangerous and potentially deadly conditions. Housed in an unused storage section underneath the ICC, this mismatched team faces bureaucratic, jurisdictional and cultural obstacles while traversing continents in pursuit of justice.
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Farewell, My Queen
Title: Farewell, My Queen
Character: Le marquis de la Chesnaye
Released: March 21, 2012
Type: Movie
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
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Iris in Bloom
Title: Iris in Bloom
Character: Le père d'Iris
Released: July 27, 2011
Type: Movie
An 18-year-old beauty develops an attraction to an older photographer.
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Goodbye First Love
Title: Goodbye First Love
Character: Camille's Father
Released: July 6, 2011
Type: Movie
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
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E-love
Title: E-love
Character: Olivier
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Paule is pushing 50, as she repeatedly observes in her voice-over commentary. When she – a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year-old daughter – learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. The Internet site “L’âme-sœur” is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis...
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Cortex
Title: Cortex
Character: Jérémy
Released: January 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Trapped in an old folks home where people keep going missing, an ex-cop must overcome his Alzheimers to find out who is killing people in this jigsaw thriller.
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The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Title: The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Character: Adamas
Released: September 2, 2007
Type: Movie
In an enchanted forest, back in the time of the Druids, the shepherd Céladon and the shepherdess Astrée share a pure and chaste love. Fooled by a suitor, Astrée dismisses Céladon, who throws himself into a river out of despair. She thinks he's dead, but he's been secretly rescued by some nymphs. Faithful to the promise he made to Astrée to never appear before her again, Céladon must overcome many obstacles to break the curse. Mad with love and despair, coveted by the nymphs, surrounded by rivals, and obliged to disguise himself as a woman to be near the one he loves, will he manage to make himself known without breaking his oath? A romance filled with doubt, hazards, and delicious temptations.
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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Title: Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.
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Red Sunset
Title: Red Sunset
Character: Docteur Wagner, le chirurgien esthétique
Released: June 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Paris to start a new life. His only possession is a painting which his father left him, along with the advice: "If you ever need to sell the painting, do so in France, where it's worth a fortune." But Michel discovers that his father's tumultuous and secret past comes along with the valuable painting. Meanwhile, Clara, a middle age Spanish-Argentine mother gets a strange present from a now dying childhood friend in Buenos Aires. It's a roll of Super 8 film which brings back very strong, and emotionally charged memories from the 1970s and before.
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Triple Agent
Title: Triple Agent
Character: Fiodor
Released: March 17, 2004
Type: Movie
The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor's Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.
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The Lady and the Duke
Title: The Lady and the Duke
Character: Vergniaud
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.
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The Adolescent
Title: The Adolescent
Character: Frédéric Papillon
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.
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L'Étonnement
Title: L'Étonnement
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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The Freelancers
Title: The Freelancers
Character: Martial
Released: March 24, 1999
Type: Movie
In this off-beat French comedy-drama, a quirky band of classical musicians prepare to play at a nobleman's New Year's Eve gala.
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An arrangement
Title: An arrangement
Released: January 7, 1998
Type: Movie
Alphonse Dutilleux, a Paris Shoemaker, closes shop and makes his way to the Bois de Boulogne, the male pick-up and prostitution scene. His wife and his son are waiting for him for dinner...
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Oncle Vania
Title: Oncle Vania
Character: Mikhaïl Lvovitch Astrov
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Elegantly and carefully, Léon trains his sights both on Chekhov’s famous play written in 1896 and on its earlier, lesser known version entitled "The Wood Demon" (1889), combining the two.
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Sept en attente
Title: Sept en attente
Released: March 6, 1996
Type: Movie
An all night party in a building on the outskirts of Paris provides the setting of this provocative French meditation on life and waiting. As the title states, the film centers on seven main characters at the party. Each of them is privately waiting for something and all of them engage in conversations about the fundamental concerns of life, including love, sex, truth and responsibility. Among the seven are a pregnant woman waiting for her baby, a playboy, a gay man, and a young woman with poor taste in men. To make the film, director Francoise Etchegaray gave the actors a sense of who they were supposed to be and what they should do, placed them in a room, and let them improvise their dialog.
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Le Dieu Mozart
Title: Le Dieu Mozart
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Rendezvous in Paris
Title: Rendezvous in Paris
Character: lui
Released: March 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
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Samson le magnifique
Title: Samson le magnifique
Character: Norbert de Marsac
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Adaptation of a French boulevard play, in which a parvenu businessman marries a young lady from a noble family who need his money.There is no love lost between them.
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Lou Didn't Say No
Title: Lou Didn't Say No
Character: The golden boy
Released: December 21, 1994
Type: Movie
The turbulent relationship between a filmmaker and a volatile actor.
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Li per li
Title: Li per li
Character: Le Capitane
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Five extraterrestrials like no other are enjoying their last moments on planet Earth. Only one will stay to keep the secrets.
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The Blue Note
Title: The Blue Note
Character: Ivan Tourgueniev
Released: June 5, 1991
Type: Movie
A look at the last few days of in the life of composer Frédéric Chopin's professional life.
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Les Dessous de la passion
Title: Les Dessous de la passion
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie