Acting
Rita Renoir
Born January 19, 1934 · Paris, France
Died May 4, 2016 · aged 82
Rita Renoir was a French strip-tease-dancer and actress.
Known For
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard · 1967Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
★ 6.71967
MovieComedyCrime
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Red Desert · 1964Red Desert
★ 7.31964
MovieDrama
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Cannabis · 1970Cannabis
★ 4.41970
MovieCrimeDrama
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of French drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane's. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse...
The Angel · 1982The Angel
★ 6.81982
MovieAnimationFantasy
The climbing of an immense staircase made up of the most varied stairs. Symbolic scenes occur on different levels where characters seem to be prisoners of their deeds and of their own folly. The steep staircase leads little by little towards the zones of great light where human beings and nonhuman beings meet.
Chappaqua · 1966Chappaqua
★ 6.31966
MovieDrama
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.
Sweet and Sour · 1963Sweet and Sour
★ 5.11963
MovieComedyMusic
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
The Sicilian · 1958The Sicilian
★ 4.71958
MovieComedy
A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impériale" to a major fashion house. Following a misunderstanding, he is mistaken by a gang of gangsters for "Le Sicilien", a hired killer. A quid pro quo of enormous proportions. Fernand has the whole gang arrested and is reunited with his sweet fiancée Josée.
Ecco · 1963Ecco
★ 4.71963
MovieDocumentary
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.


