Jean Renoir — Playwright (20)
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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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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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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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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?
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La golfa (1931)
La Chienne
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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La Bête Humaine (1938)
La Bête humaine
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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The River (1951)
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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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Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Boudu sauvé des eaux
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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Grand Illusion (1937)
La grande illusion
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.
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French Cancan (1955)
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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.