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Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion (1937) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich Von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette

Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion is an often witty, sometimes poignant, frequently moving examination of the futility of war. During World War I, twoFrench airmen are shot down while taking surveillance photographs in German territory: Capt. de ...

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La Bête Humaine

La Bête Humaine (1938) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Julien Carette, Fernand Ledoux, Jean Renoir, Blanchette Brunoy

Based on a novel by Emile Zola, La Bete Humaine weaves a mesmerizing tale of a tragic triangle. Train engineer Jean Gabin lusts after Simone Simon, the wife of his co-worker Fernand Ledoux. When Ledoux is in danger of losing his job, Simon offers herself to her husband's boss. In jealous pique, Ledoux kills the man. Gabin is witness to this, so ...

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The Southerner

The Southerner (1945) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Zachary Scott, Betty Field, Beulah Bondi, Bunny Sunshine, Percy Kilbride, J. Carrol Naish, Jay Gilpin

The Southerner was Jean Renoir's favorite of his American films. Shot on location, the film stars Zachary Scott as a sharecropper who yearns for a place of his own. On a tiny, scraggly patch of land, Scott tries to make a go of things, along with his wife Betty Field, his grandmother Beulah Bondi, and his children Jean Vanderwilt (aka Bunny ...

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Boudu Saved from Drowning

Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcella Hainia, Jean Gehret, Severine Lerczynska

Boudu (played by Michel Simon, who also produced the film) is a shaggy, foul-smelling tramp who is rescued from drowning by bourgeois Frenchman Charles Granval. Deciding to "reform" Boudu, Granval invites the hobo into his home. Boudu returns the favor by turning the household upside down and by conducting an affair with Granval's wife Marcella ...

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The Golden Coach

The Golden Coach (1952) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Anna Magnani, Duncan Lamont, Odoardo Spadaro, Riccardo Rioli, Paul Campbell

Set in 18th-century South America, The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse D'Or) stars Anna Magnani as an earthy Commedia Del Arte performer. Magnani is lusted after by diplomat Duncan Lamont, who leaves both his job and his mistress to pursue the sexy actress. Also vying for Magnani's favors are a bullfighter and a nobleman. Magnani tries to avert ...

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Le Crime de Monsieur Lange

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Jules Berry, René Lefèvre, Sylvia Bataille

Jean Renoir was the director of The Crime of Monsieur Lange, but this French film might just as well have been made in Hollywood by Frank Capra. The titular Lange (Rene Lefevre) is an author of wild west novels. When the owner of the company that publishes Lange's works absconds with the company funds, Lange rallies the employees together to ...

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La Marseillaise (1937) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Léon Larive, Louis Jouvet, Aimé Clariond, Andrex

Jean Renoir's epic account of the French Revolution juxtaposes the opulent life of King Louis XVI with the poverty of the commoners who rose up to overthrow the monarchy in 1789. The film's title comes from the rallying song which grew out of the peasants' march on the Bastille, the song that ultimately became the French national anthem. Filmed ...

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Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe

Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (1959) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Paul Meurisse, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Pierre Granval, Fernand Sardou

Jean Renoir never made any secret that Picnic on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe) was inspired by the impressionist paintings of his father Auguste Renoir, and also of Edouard Monet. The near-surrealistic plotline concerns priggish US presidential candidate Paul Meurisse, who carries on a sterile, clinical courtship with Ingrid Nordine. ...

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Elena and Her Men

Elena and Her Men (1956) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer, Jean Richard, Pierre Bertin, Elina Labourdette, Magali Noël

In the 1950s, French films were considered the ne plus ultra in naughtiness by certain impressionable filmgoers. It was to these movie fans that the American distributor of Jean Renoir's Elena et les Hommes (Elena and the Men) catered when it provocatively retitled the picture Paris Does Strange Things As further grist to the mill for American ...

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The River

The River (1951) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Thomas E. Breen, Patricia Walters, Suprova Mukerjee

The River must be seen in its original Technicolor; it is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine anyone fully enjoying this wonderful film while watching a black-and-white TV print. Adapted by director Jean Renoir and Rumer Godden from Godden's own novel, the film is set on the banks of West Bengal. The central character is teenaged British girl ...

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The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game (1939) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Marcel Dalio, Roland Toutain, Paulette Dubost

Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu/Rules of the Game was not warmly received on its original release in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openly hostile, responding to the film with shouts of derision, and distributors cut the movie from 113 minutes to a mere 80. It was ...

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A Day in the Country

A Day in the Country (1946) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Georges Darnoux, Paul Temps

Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country is a short and semisweet romantic vignette based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. A group of family members spend a day away from the city in the French countryside. While the men go off to fish, the mother (Jeanne Marken) has a harmless flirtation with a rural "rake," while the daughter (Sylvia Bataille) has a ...

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Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer, Judith Anderson

Based on the novel by Octave Mirbeau, Diary of a Chambermaid is a noble experiment: a "Continental" sex drama with a virtually all-Anglo cast. Paulette Goddard plays the title character, a saucy servant named Celestine whose forthrightness has a curious effect on a wealthy Parisian household. Determined to elevate her lot in life, Celestine uses ...

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This Land Is Mine

This Land Is Mine (1943) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith

Written by Dudley Nichols and directed by French expatriate director Jean Renoir, This Land is Mine is one of those "inspirational" wartime dramas that just don't hold up too well when seen today. The scene is an unnamed European country, recently overrun by the Nazis (this takes place during a "silent" opening sequence that's the best thing in ...

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Le Caporal Epinglé

Le Caporal Epinglé (1962) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Jean Carmet, Jacques Jouanneau

The eponymous French corporal, played by Jean-Pierre Cassel, is ensconced in a German POW camp. Cassel plots with his friends Claude Brasseur and Claude Rich to escape, but all three are recaptured. When the corporal plans another getaway, he finds that one of his chums isn't interested anymore. After a brief liaison with the daughter of a German ...

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Renoir Shorts

directed by Jean Renoir

This 50-minute video consists of two silent short subjects directed by French maitre Jean Renoir. The first is La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes, aka The Little Match Girl, a 1927 collaboration between Renoir and Jean Tedesco. An ultra-fanciful adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story, this film is uncharacteristically avant-garde for ...

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Toni

Toni (1934) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Charles Blavette, Celia Montalvan, Jenny Hélia, Edouard Delmont, Andrex, Max Dalban

After completing his successful Madame Bovary (34), director Jean Renoir could have had the pick of France's top "name" actors for his 1935 film Toni, but chose instead to use nonprofessionals. The plot was based on a true story, brought to Renoir's attention by the sheriff of the village where it occurred. The story is the basic "good man ...

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French Cancan

French Cancan (1954) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Jean Gabin, Maria Felix, Françoise Arnoul, Gaston Modot, Gianni Esposito

Beautifully photographed, this comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge. The film is also title Only the French Can. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Les Bas-Fonds (1936) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Jean Gabin, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Prim, Jany Holt, Junie Astor, Vladimir Sokoloff

Voted 1936's best picture by a circle of prestigious French critics, Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths (Les Bas-Fonds) is based on the "gutter" play by Russian author Maxim Gorky. Louis Jouvet plays The Baron, forced by circumstance to give up his life of luxury and to set up residence in the slums of Paris. As Jouvet observes the passing parade, he ...

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