Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: France • Language: French, German
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir
Cast
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Plot
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Émile Zola, Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
Cast
Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Plot
In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: French, Italian
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Jean Renoir, Jacques Levert, Carl Einstein
Cast
Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Jenny Hélia
Plot
In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a w...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco
Writer
Hans Christian Andersen, Jean Renoir
Cast
Catherine Hessling, Eric Barclay, Jean Storm
Plot
An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Jean Renoir, André-Paul Antoine
Cast
Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, MarÃa Félix
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: France • Language: French, German
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Jean Renoir, Carl Koch, Noelle Gillmor
Cast
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet
Plot
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: French, Danish
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Georges Simenon, Jean Renoir
Cast
Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried
Plot
Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Gustave Flaubert, Jean Renoir
Cast
Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir
Plot
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault, who is well-endowed in every sense. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-l...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Jean Renoir, Jean Serge
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer
Plot
Polish countess Elena falls in love with a French radical party's candidate - a general - in pre-World War I Paris, but another officer pines for her. Starring Ingrid Bergman, with Mel Ferrer and Jean Marais as the rivals for her ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Horror • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Jean Renoir, Robert Louis Stevenson
Cast
Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Bilis, Michel Vitold
Plot
Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier's lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people's behavior can be adjusted at will...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: France • Language: French, German
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Jacques Perret, Jean Renoir, Guy Lefranc
Cast
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse
Plot
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Jacques Becker, Jacques B. Brunius, Henri Cartier-Bresson
Writer
Jacques Becker, Jacques B. Brunius, Jean Renoir
Cast
Jean Dasté, Jacques B. Brunius, Simone Guisin
Plot
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing who the comrades help the proletarian people against the capitalists. It also features propagandistic speeches of leading members of the party.
