Jean Renoir — Director (21)
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French Cancan (1955) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
French Cancan
director: Jean Renoir actor: Jean Gabin / Françoise Arnoul …
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
1950s 1954 français 歌舞 法国
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Grand Illusion (1937) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
La grande illusion
director: Jean Renoir actor: Jean Gabin / Pierre Fresnay …
other title: La grande illusione / Den Store Illusion …
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
1930s a rever alemanha classes sociais erichvonstroheim
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Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) [Movie] TMDB
Boudu sauvé des eaux
director: Jean Renoir actor: Michel Simon / Marcelle Hainia …
other title: Boudu salvato dalle acque / Boudu sauvé des eaux …
Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie.
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Life Is Ours (1936) [Movie] TMDB
La vie est à nous
director: Jacques Becker / Jacques Brunius … actor: Jean Dasté / Nadia Sibirskaïa …
other title: La vita è nostra / La vie est à nous …
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
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The River (1951) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
The River
director: Jean Renoir actor: Nora Swinburne / Esmond Knight …
other title: Il fiume / Der Strom …
Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.
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La Bête Humaine (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban
La Bête humaine
director: Jean Renoir actor: Jean Gabin / Simone Simon …
other title: L'angelo del male / Menneskedyret …
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.
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La golfa (1931) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
La Chienne
director: Jean Renoir actor: Michel Simon / Janie Marèse …
other title: La cagna / Die Hündin …
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
director: 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?
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Night at the Crossroads (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
La Nuit du carrefour
director: 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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Toni (1935) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Toni
director: 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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La Marsellesa (1938) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
La Marseillaise
director: 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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Charleston Parade (1927) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Sur un air de Charleston
director: 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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Swamp Water (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Swamp Water
director: 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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Whirlpool of Fate (1925) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Fille de l'eau
director: 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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The Lower Depths (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Les Bas-fonds
director: 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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Experiment in Evil (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le Testament du docteur Cordelier
director: 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 Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir
director: 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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The Little Match Girl (1928) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
director: 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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Picnic on the Grass (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
director: 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.