René Navarre
Also Known As: not available
Biography: René Navarre (8 July 1877 – 8 February 1968) was a French actor of the silent era. He appeared in 109 films between 1910 and 1946, and was often credited simply as Navarre. His most famous role was probably the master criminal Fantômas.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France
Adult: No
Birthday: July 08, 1877
Age: 147 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 08, 1968
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The New Dawn
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-08-01
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Judex
Overview: Judex the vigilante enjoins crooked banker Maurice-Ernest Favraux to distribute his ill-gotten fortune to the city's poor. The thugs decide to kidnap the financier's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-05
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Le train d'amour
Overview: A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy patients to take a mistress when he feels attracted to the latter's fiancée. The "sick", meanwhile, feels weaknesses for the wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-23
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The Enchanted Road
Overview: The son of two teachers hits the road and becomes a singing success after being taken in as a protege by a kooky countess.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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La Belle Revanche
Overview: A painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover intervenes to prevent her from being happy and succeeds in driving away the one she loves. The young woman regains a taste for life thanks to her work and her friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-05-12
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His Uncle from Normandy
Overview: A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads him to Normandy. There he discovers, with the discomfort of an old dusty century-old house, the sweetness of life, the love of a beautiful girl and the pleasure of doing nothing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-08
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Les 3 tambours
Overview: 12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Radio Surprises
Overview: The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate about radio. Coco, the fiancé of Jacqueline Bontemps, participates in all the contests and under the name of Mr. Bontemps wins a beautiful Sunday. All arrive in Paris and in the premises of the Parisian Post Office attend popular broadcasts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-08
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Bécassine
Overview: A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-09-03
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La Justicière
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-09-18
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Méphisto
Overview: On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified masked man. He kidnaps the young woman, who is found later on by the count Robert d'Arbel. The detective Jacques Miral, nicknamed « the pointed tower's ferret » is put in charge of the case. Soon, he discovers that an international bandit, Méphisto, seeks to seize the formula of a process against asphyxiating gas, invented by professor Bergmann. The struggle is tough between Miral and the uncatchable Méphisto. Monique Aubray, Keanton's secretary and engaged to the detective, the Nostradamus stallholders and the « mastiff of Bordeaux », and the famous novelist Fortuné Bidon are also involved in the case...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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Le poison
Overview: Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-01-01
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Le Mariage de l'aînée
Overview: Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-01-01
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A General Strike
Overview: Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-01-01
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Le Chef-lieu de canton
Overview: Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-01-01
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Les Braves Gens
Overview: Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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Le Pont sur l'abîme
Overview: Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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Tragic Error
Overview: When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-24
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The Trust, or The Battles for Money
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-11-09
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The Obsession
Overview: 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 about to board the Titanic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-10-16
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The Open Eyes
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-02-14
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André Chénier
Overview: The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1910-02-06
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L'Intruse
Overview: A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.
Genres: Family Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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The Great Breath
Overview: The patriotic melodrama, set during WWI, revolves around a thief played by René Navarre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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Belphégor
Overview: Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later police trap is foiled when the phantom—“Belphégor” (the name of a legendary demon)—uses knock-out gas. Journalist Jacques Bellegarde of “Le Petit Parisien” (the real-life newspaper which published the original story in serial installments), investigates, and eventually discovers famous detective Chantecoq and his vivacious daughter Colette are also on the case.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Jean Chouan
Overview: This 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau against the Republicans in Western France starting in 1793.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-01-22
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The Smuggler
Overview: The story revolves around a smuggler (René Navarre) who rescues a young lady trapped in the canyon. Some rock-climbing shots at the beginning of the film.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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The Dungeon
Overview: A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-01
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Life As It Is
Overview: A beginning of a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade from 1911-1913
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-01
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Fantômas
Overview: A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-05-09
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La cassette de l'émigrée
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-05-01
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The Man Who Has Come a Long Way
Overview: the man who has come a long way
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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Cheri Bibi
Overview: Silent film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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A Race for Millions
Overview: If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-13
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The Cavalry
Overview: A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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Chéri-Bibi
Overview: An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-02
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The Living Dead
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-02-23
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The Toledo Chest
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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L'accident
Overview: On his way to visit his mistress, a man has a serious car accident. His wife cares for him with such devotion that he rediscovers his love for her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-04-19
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The Seneschal's Diamond
Overview: A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two scoundrels plot to rob her of the diamond before she can part with it. They waylay her and carry her off to a house where they demand from her the diamond. With a smile she shows them the receipt for a registered package as she had deemed it safer to send it by this means. Later she takes them off their guard and escapes. An exciting automobile chase now takes place, ending with the car in which the would-be diamond robbers are seated being hurled over the cliff to destruction.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-02-20
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The Way Through the Night
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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The Fate of Mothers
Overview: Part of Feuillade's 'Life As It Is' series
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1912-01-19
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The Balancing Act
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-02-14
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At the Hour of Dawn
Overview: When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed of the city's absent ruler, who must return in time to rescue his beloved and save the city.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-04-04
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Ferragus
Overview: An adaptation of the first part of Balzac's History of the Thirteen, centered on the secret society of the Thirteen and helmed by René Navarre in the titular role of the former convict who became a sublime father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-11-30
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Mam'zelle Spahi
Overview: Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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Le gardien du feu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-11-14
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Jeunes filles d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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Vidocq
Overview: François Vidocq has deserted to go back to his wife and kids, so he becomes a thief. Unfortunately, he finds she had become Manon-la-blonde, mistress of a rich man named Ouvrard, and his children have disappeared. He offers his services to the chief of intelligence service and begins a fight against the Aristo, chief of the gang of the children of the sun. After a few years, he dismantles the gang, and finds both his sons. One has become a blackguard, the other a famous organist who is about to be knighted and will soon get married to his beloved.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-02-23
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Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1910-02-27
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The Secret of Forçat
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-03-14
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Bébé veut payer ses dettes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo
Overview: The voyages of Pierre Savorgnan de Brassa through Africa. This great explorer, the founder of Brazzaville (Congo), was born in Italy but chose France as his motherland.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-01
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La Réponse du destin
Overview: Leopoldo Quintana is a lawyer who, determined to reach power and capable of anything to get what he wants, uses blackmail and shady maneuvers to be appointed congressman for the Balearic Islands, then minister, and finally President of the Council of Ministers of the Spanish Government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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Monsieur Coccinelle
Overview: An average worker who feels downtrodden at work and home, dreams of becoming a dictator. His aunt has her own fantasy that the love-of-her-life, a fairground magician, will return to her once more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-02
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Mon oncle
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Par un jour de carnaval
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
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All in Good Fun
Overview: Bob Monkhouse introduces the golden age of slapstick comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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