Jean Renoir — Director (28)
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The Southerner (1945)
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Jean Renoir actor: Zachary Scott / Betty Field …
other title: L'uomo del Sud / De ukuelige …
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
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Elena and Her Men (1956)
Elena et les hommes
Jean Renoir actor: Jean Marais / Ingrid Bergman …
other title: Eliana e gli uomini / Helena e os Homens …
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.
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The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
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Jean Renoir actor: Paulette Goddard / Burgess Meredith …
other title: Il diario di una cameriera / Segredos de Alcova …
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
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Picnic on the Grass (1959)
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Jean Renoir actor: Paul Meurisse / Catherine Rouvel …
other title: Picnic alla francese / Das Frühstück im Grünen …
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself. A shepherd's flute conjures a windstorm that throws Alexis together with the luscious Nénette, a farm lass who wants to have a baby but is unimpressed with men.
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The Little Match Girl (1928)
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Jean Renoir actor: Catherine Hessling / Eric Barclay …
other title: La piccola fiammiferaia / Das kleine Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern …
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.
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The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1974)
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Jean Renoir actor: Jeanne Moreau / Nino Formicola …
other title: Il piccolo teatro di Jean Renoir / Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir …
Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part Two, "The Electric Floor Polisher," is an opera-like story of a woman who is obsessed with polishing her floors. Part Three is a musical interlude featuring Jeanne Moreau singing "When Love Dies." Part Four, "The Virtue of Tolerance," concerns an old man, his young wife, and how they come to terms when she has an affair with a man her own age.
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Experiment in Evil (1960)
Le Testament du docteur Cordelier
Jean Renoir actor: Jean-Louis Barrault / Teddy Bilis …
other title: Il testamento del mostro / Das Testament des Dr. Cordelier …
Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain. His lifelong friend, Maître Joly, becomes concerned when Cordelier draws up a will that bequeaths his entire estate to a stranger, Monsieur Opale; he cannot understand why Cordelier defends him, considering Opale attacks women and children. After a colleague is killed, Joly confronts Cordelier and discovers the truth behind his friend's behavior.
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The Lower Depths (1936)
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Jean Renoir actor: Jean Gabin / Suzy Prim …
other title: Verso la vita / O Submundo …
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
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Whirlpool of Fate (1925)
La Fille de l'eau
Jean Renoir actor: Catherine Hessling / Charlotte Clasis …
other title: La ragazza dell'acqua / Die Tochter des Wassers …
Jean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young girl who manages to turn her tragic family life into one of joy and happiness.
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Swamp Water (1941)
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Jean Renoir actor: Dana Andrews / Walter Huston …
other title: La palude della morte / In den Sümpfen …
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
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Charleston Parade (1927)
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Jean Renoir actor: Catherine Hessling / Johnny Hudgins …
other title: Charleston / Sur un air de Charleston …
Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
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La Marsellesa (1938)
La Marseillaise
Jean Renoir actor: Pierre Renoir / Lise Delamare …
other title: La Marsigliese / La Marseillaise
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.
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Toni (1935)
Toni
Jean Renoir actor: Charles Blavette / Celia Montalván …
In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently — like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.
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Night at the Crossroads (1932)
La Nuit du carrefour
Jean Renoir actor: Pierre Renoir / Winna Winfried …
other title: La notte dell'incrocio / La Nuit du carrefour …
A gang of thieves utilize a cross-road garage as their hideaway; after accidentally murdering a jewel thief, the heat is on.
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
Jean Renoir actor: René Lefèvre / Florelle …
other title: Il delitto del signor Lange / O Crime do Sr. Lange …
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?