The best Claude Génia’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Claude Génia’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Claude Génia.
The Count of Monte Cristo
7.1/10
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Dracula and Son
5.4/10
With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl.
Repeated Absences
6.7/10
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
Misdeal
5.5/10
An adaptation of Boileau and Narcejac's "D'entre les Morts".
I Killed Rasputin
5.7/10
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
Le Capitan 1ere époque : Flamberge au vent
6/10
Le père Goriot
6.8/10
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Huit femmes
The Truth About Bebe Donge
6.8/10
François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married life and understands how his wife who adored him suffered from his many affairs and indifference.
Monsieur des Lourdines
5.9/10
Ankle Bone
6.2/10
What unfolds is a tale of survival, as Anne (Marlene Jobert), in and out of the hospital and limping around on her wounded limb, drifts into a life of prostitution and suffers many a hard knock at the hands of men.
The Farm of Seven Sins
6.4/10
Follows a murder trial during the reign of Charles X. Winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno.
La Vie de plaisir
7.3/10
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
