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La Bete Humaine (1938)
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Julien Carette
Based on the classic Emile Zola novel, Jean Renoir's "La Bete Humaine" was one of the legendary director's greatest popular successes - and earned sta... Read more
Une Partie de Campagne ( A Day in the Country ) (1936)
7.8/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux
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... Read more
French Cancan (1954)
7.5/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, Maria Felix
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir's exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays... Read more
La Marseillaise (1938)
7.2/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Erich Von Stroheim
An incredible spectacle that lavishly documents the French Revolution from the summer of 1789 to the final collapse of Louis XVI's monarchy. This vivi... Read more
Swamp Water (1941)
7.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John...
French auteur Jean Renoir made his US debut with this thriller about a man wrongly sentenced to hang who escapes from prison to clear his name. After... Read more
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1931)
7.5/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia
A light comedy as well as a satire on bourgeois lifestyle in France. Michel Simon is Boudu, a scruffy tramp who is saved from his suicide attempt by a... Read more
La Grande Illusion (1937)
8.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Erich Von Stroheim, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
One of the very first prison escape movies, 'Grand Illusion' is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars... Read more
The River (1951)
7.6/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight
In 1949 and 1950, Renoir travelled to Bengal for his first colour film - the story of a large British family living on the banks of the Ganges. Winnin... Read more
Elena and Her Men (1956)
6.4/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer
A lively Technicolor romantic comedy from Jean Renoir starring Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful but impoverished Polish princess in turn-of-the-century P... Read more
The Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) (1939)
8.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Mila Parely
AKA 'La Regle du Jeu'. One of the greatest films of all time, a satirical anatomy of polite bourgeois society, with a mixture of farce and black comed... Read more
The Golden Coach (1952)
7.3/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli
Jean Renoir explores the complex relationship between theatre and life in this highly stylised account of the travels of a commedia dell'arte troupe i... Read more