Serge Renko

Smalltown Boys (2022)

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. ...

Fabien (2021)

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 ...

La Lévitation de la princesse Karnak (2021)

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. ...

Les passages secrets (2015)

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. ...

Farewell, My Queen (2012)

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution. ...

Iris in Bloom (2011)

An 18-year-old beauty develops an attraction to an older photographer. ...

Goodbye First Love (2011)

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. ...

E-love (2011)

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 s ...

Cortex (2008)

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. ...

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007)

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, bu ...

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens (2005)

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 s ...

Red Sunset (2004)

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 advic ...

Triple Agent (2004)

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 ...

Saltimbank (2003)

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, ...

The Lady and the Duke (2001)

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 ...

The Adolescent (2001)

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. ...

L'Étonnement (2001)

The Freelancers (1999)

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. ...

An arrangement (1998)

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... ...

Oncle Vania (1997)

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. ...

Sept en attente (1996)

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 so ...

Le Dieu Mozart (1996)

Rendezvous in Paris (1995)

Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris. ...

Samson le magnifique (1995)

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. ...

Lou Didn’t Say No (1994)

Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis. ...

Li per li (1994)

Five extraterrestrials like no other are enjoying their last moments on planet Earth. Only one will stay to keep the secrets. ...

The Blue Note (1991)

A look at the last few days of in the life of composer Frédéric Chopin's professional life. ...

Les Dessous de la passion (1991)

The Secret Routes of Migratory Birds (2014)