Cinematography: Jean-Jacques Renon

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Jean-Jacques Renon. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Iron Rose

1971 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Jean Rollin

Cast Françoise Pascal · Hugues Quester · Nathalie Perrey · Mireille Dargent

Synopsis A boy and a girl who share similar morbid romantic interests in music and poetry picnic at a labyrinthine cemetery and make love in a tomb. Night falls and they find themselves locked in and running in circles as their...

5.7

144 votes

5.7

144 votes

The Shiver of the Vampires

1971 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Jean Rollin

Cast Sandra Julien · Jean-Marie Durand · Jacques Robiolles · Michel Delahaye

Synopsis A young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple.

4.5

91 votes

4.5

91 votes

4.4

176 votes

Curse of the Living Dead

1974 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Jean Rollin

Cast Joëlle Coeur · John Rico · Willy Braque · Paul Bisciglia

Synopsis Two young girls, the survivors of a ship-wreck, are raped and beaten by a band of pirate-like cut throats. Left for dead, the girls re-emerge and, sexually empowered by a supernatural being hidden in nearby ruins, seek their wrathful vengeance...

4.2

49 votes

4.2

49 votes

Schoolgirl Hitchhikers

1973 · Movie · 74 min. · France

Direction Jean Rollin

Cast Joëlle Coeur · Gilda Arancio · Marie Hélène Règne · Willy Braque

Synopsis Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

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Rapt in Love

1981 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Gérard Loubeau · Hans R. Walthard

Cast Berta Singerman · Raquel Evans · Bernard Seray · Eva Lyberten

Synopsis In a secluded villa, a couple and her daughter and a girl are kidnapped by two thugs.

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Les chômeurs en folie

1982 · Movie · 89 min. · France

Direction Georges Cachoux

Cast Eric Civanyan · Tchee · Didier Bourdon · Jean-Marc Longval

Synopsis André and Lucien, two unemployed men with a taste for petty thefts, get embarked on a film project involving Anatole, a young count who lends his castle and his antique camera. But soon problems arise...

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Le Socrate

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Robert Lapoujade

Cast Pierre Luzan · René-Jean Chauffard · Martine Brochard · Stéphane Fay

Synopsis Shows the eccentricties of Le Socrate, a philosopher who has divorced himself from materialistic society and a local policeman assigned to watch him.

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Sadistic Hallucinations

1969 · Movie · 81 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Bastid

Cast Daniel Gélin · Anouk Ferjac · Michel Subor · René-Jean Chauffard

Synopsis In a mysterious French castle dark meetings and apparitions happen, seasoned by nauseating erotic menages. The involvement frantically increases up to the amazing epilogue.

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