HOME
NEW
MOVIES REVIEW
WATCHLIST
René Alié

René Alié

Acting
1902-09-03
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France

Biography

René Alié was a French actor and singer with a rich yet discreet career, marked by more than forty film appearances. He began working in the 1930s, quickly establishing himself as a reliable supporting actor in French cinema. He notably appeared in Marcel Carné’s Hôtel du Nord, portraying a hot‑tempered criminal. His filmography spans over three decades, including roles in popular productions such as Henri Decoin’s Razzia sur la chnouf and Gilles Grangier’s Archimède le clochard. Active across film, theatre, and television, he worked continuously until his final screen appearance in René Gainville’s L’Associé

Known For & Full Filmography42 Titles

#1After the Storm

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Olivier

7.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

René Sabin, engineer, disappointed by failures, leaves his village in the South to go to Paris with friends. In the capital, he befriends dubious people, in particular Alex Krakow who does not disdain shady business. Then comes the war. René is mobilized then returns to the country, and finds with joy his fiancée.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#2Mazarin

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Monsieur de Longueville

7.0 / 10
DramaWar & PoliticsFamily

The series Mazarin (1978) recounts the rise of Jules Mazarin, first an Italian diplomat and later France’s chief minister after Richelieu. The story shows how he earns the trust of Anne of Austria and becomes the political mentor of the young Louis XIV. Over the course of the episodes, Mazarin faces court intrigues, the hostility of powerful nobles, and the turmoil of the Fronde, which threatens royal authority and forces him into several periods of exile. Despite pamphlets and conspiracies, he manages to restore order and prepare the emergence of the future Sun King. The series thus portrays a skilled statesman, often contested but essential in shaping absolute monarchy.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#3Razzia

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Un transporteur

6.7 / 10
CrimeDrama

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#4Hôtel du Nord

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Marcel (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
RomanceDrama

On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#5L'Escalier sans fin

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Marco

9.0 / 10

An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately, Émilienne's young sister who was helping her at work decides to go away with the stableman.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#6Le Monsieur de 5 heures

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Comedy

A wealthy banker who takes his accountant's name after multiple incidents is forced to pass off his girlfriend as his daughter. But the truth is coming out. The banker's wife then favors the marriage of the young girl, which creates a new intimacy in her household.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#7Berlingot and Company

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Dédé

6.8 / 10
DramaComedy

François and Victor sell hard candy at the fun fair. They also bring up Gisèle, a one-year-old child they found by the side of the road. Although the two men are often at each other's throats they are the best friends, getting on well with the other fairground people. But when they defend Lisa, the fortune teller's daughter against Dédé, a thug who pesters her, they provoke his anger. Dédé sets fire to the two friends' stand and they are forced to take the road.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#8The Inheritor

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Les P.D.G.

6.4 / 10
ThrillerDramaAction

After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#9Les deux Monsieur de Madame

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as The president

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#10The Associate

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Un client investisseur, mari de la femme aux bijoux

6.5 / 10
Comedy

An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#11Head Against the Wall

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
Drama

An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#12The Boss of Champignol

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regional race. But the thieves return, and Claudius is forced to do odd jobs to keep his horse.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#13L’Atomique monsieur Placido

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Gangster

8.0 / 10
ComedyCrime

A gangster, thief of atomic formulas, has a double in the person of a naive musician. A music hall artist who makes eyes at the musician is deceived by the gangster who also takes advantage of the resemblance to track down a band of thugs who are chasing him. Virtue is ultimately rewarded.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#14Cherished by her concierge

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Boisgirard

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretaker is Madame Motte, and the lady is in love with the young man. Just for laughs, Eugène's friends circulate on the air the rumor that Eugène has inherited millions of francs. It does not take long before a swarm of 'friends' start mixing with him. After a while, considering that the joke has lasted long enough, the jokers reveal the truth. Eugène immediately loses all his 'friends' but not he girl he loves. Even better, Eugène actually inherits a big sum of money. He who laughs last laughs best!

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#15My Friend Oscar

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Policeman (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Hans Lövgren happens to win a seal on a lottery during a trip to France. Terrified, he brings the seal home to his Paris apartment and tries to function together with the charming but barking guest.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#16Road Blocked

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Gaétano

8.0 / 10

Jacques Audoin falls in love with a pianist, Evelyne Clery, and marries her. In reality, he had wanted to approach her, because he imagined that she had witnessed the murder of the lover of his first wife. Evelyne learns what has happened and, revolted by what she thinks is her husband's plot, commits suicide. Jacques confesses his crime.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#17Jo la Romance

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as The aviator

7.0 / 10
Music

For love, the singer Georges Hyverlin gives up his profession to work with his father-in-law in his car factory. When the passion for song takes him back, he manages to resume his career thanks to the support of his wife Martine.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#18Because, Because of a Woman

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Le père d'Agathe

5.1 / 10
ComedyCrime

A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him later to the police as the murderer of her fiance who was found dead the same morning. With the help of his mistresses and some new ones he makes on the road, the young man goes in search of the man he thinks is the killer, then his blond consort with whom he fell in love at the first sight the evening before.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#19Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Le deuxième sbire

8.0 / 10
ActionAdventure

France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#20Arlette et l'Amour

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as The false Count of Tremblay-Matour

7.5 / 10
Comedy

Madame Millois, an ambitious mother, thinks she has found the perfect match for her daughter Arlette, Count de Tremblay-Matour. Alas, the ideal husband happens to be a crook. On the night of the wedding, the fake nobleman robs his wife and abandons her. While the outraged Madame Millois looks for the real Count de Tremblay, Arlette seeks consolation with Maxime, a childhood friend. At last, the real count is found. Unsurprisingly, he is furious to learn that, legally, he is Arlette's husband. After a while though, he mellows and accepts to "remain" Arlette's husband.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#21Golden Venus

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Drama

La Venus D'Or (Golden Venus) was based on Business, a play by Pierre Sabatier. Mirielle Balin stars as Judith, the mistress of ruthless oil magnate Harfstrong. What Harfstrong doesn't know is that Judith is a spy for his hated business rival. When he does find out, he cannot get rid of her because she knows too much about his own crooked dealings. After several more reels of mutual betrayal and recriminations, the story suddenly shifts to the "good" characters, clean-limned young pilot Andre and his sweetheart Michelle. Set up as a fall guy for the villains, Andre somehow emerges from the experience none the worse for wear.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#22Moulin Rouge

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Thug

6.5 / 10
ComedyMusic

A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#23My Seal and Them

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Un agent de police

8.0 / 10
Comedy

A diplomat and fast liver, François lives the good life until, one day, he is unfortunate enough to win...a seal in a raffle. From this day on his everyday life becomes complicated, to say nothing of his sentimental life. Gabrielle, his all too serious girlfriend, can't stand the heat and calls it quits. But English girls like charming Diana don't mind seals...!

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#24Too Many Lovers

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Policeman at the theater

6.0 / 10
Comedy

The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappointed, she sets out in search of the ideal man.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#25Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.3 / 10
Comedy

To replace Hector Grofenol, the tyrannical boss of the "Tout pour le camping" factory, who has been put out of action, a group of employees call on his cousin Achille, a Provençal shepherd, thinking they can use him. But Achille is quick to take his role as CEO seriously, and becomes very enterprising. Fortunately, young secretary Martine uses her charms to calm this man with a thirst for power.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#26Le soleil a toujours raison

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#27L'aventure est au coin de la rue

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Raymond

6.2 / 10
Comedy

A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside, his hosts, to play a trick on him, organize a fake burglary, but he discovers the hoax. When he returns home, he finds his house broken into. Convinced that the game continues, he does not understand that he is dealing with real gangsters. His recklessness allows him to rout the criminals.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#28Ultimatum

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Serbian Officer

8.0 / 10
WarDrama

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#29Marked Girls

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Poloche

5.8 / 10
Drama

Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not speak of her tumultuous past. But, victim of a rampant blackmail, she cannot continue to hide her prison past and the scandal breaks out.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#30Sky Battalion

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Innkeeper (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
WarDrama

Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#31120, rue de la Gare

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
Crime

On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult investigation with many twists and turns, which takes him from Lyon to Paris, following in the footsteps of the members of a mysterious business firm.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#32Si jeunesse savait...

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Comedy

Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial markets and has disastrous consequences for the bank. Eventually, Charles Vigne will ask Abdul to give him back his real age.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#33The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Comedy

The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin. A mysterious stranger launches a press campaign accusing him of having a harmful influence on young people...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#34Threats

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
DramaWar

"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#35Adrien

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as One of the three gangsters (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
Comedy

Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time. His latest revolutionary creation is the motorized roller skate. His problem is to be able to market them. Jules Petitpas, a jobless adman, is the right man for that.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#36La parole est au témoin

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry store. The next day, reading the newspapers, Mustapha becomes aware of the role he has played in this affair, and would gladly assist the police if a fortuitous incident didn't make him fear the criminals' vengeance. It's a cruel dilemma in which he is both suspected by some and threatened by others. Weak but honest, he manages to get out of this predicament at the risk of his life!

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#37The Damned Lovers

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

4.8 / 10
Crime

A waiter, Paul, likes detective novels as he identifies with the characters, before becoming a sought-after offender himself. He flees with his group and his girlfriend Jackie

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#38Mademoiselle X

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Drama

A famous writer takes in a young amnesiac who, thanks to his care, remembers having tried to kill her unfaithful lover. He will know how to console her and share with her a new happiness.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#39Notre-Dame de la Mouise

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

Father Vincent is trying to build a church in the California neighborhood. Greeted by stones, he must face a sinister band of deviants excited by a shady cabaret performer. The abbot resists, gradually builds his church and regenerates all the wretches with whom he lives and especially the hardest, Bibi.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#40Scandal on the Champs-Élysées

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Le Sud-Américain

6.7 / 10
Crime

In Paris, three models are murdered, being one of them the mistress of the fashion designer Dominique Airelle. It is the young inspector who is in charge of the affair.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#41A Hen on a Wall

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Crime

A little peasant girl claims to have been raped. The detective who arrives in the village discovers that it is a set-up, but at the same time reveals carefully hidden and very surprising truths about each.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#42No More Vacation for the Good Lord

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as The driver

9.0 / 10

Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang busy, Pivolo, their leader, has an idea : they are going to kidnap Aunt Faguet's doggy. Just for the fun of it. A few days pass after the crime is accomplished and one of them suddenly realizes that a reward is being offered by the aunt to anyone who would bring her her pet back. Mademoiselle Hélène, the kind-hearted social worker, does it for them and gives them the reward money, which is instantly exchanged for lollipops, nougat and merry-go-round and cinema tickets. So, why not continue? That's what they do, abducting several dogs, until they realize they are becoming ... too rich! They can't buy themselves luxurious gifts or else their parents are bound to suspect something. Instead, they decide to do good by helping poor people around them. One day, Pierrot, a member of the gang, gets run down by a cyclist and becomes blind.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
René Alié - Movies & TV Shows | XFlix