The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir’s 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama,War

Actors:Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Jacques Jouanneau, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Mario David

Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain. His lifelong ...

Genre: Horror,Science Fiction,TV Movie

Actors:Jacques Danoville, Jean-Louis Barrault, Michel Vitold, Sylviane Margollé, Teddy Bilis

Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy ...

Genre: Comedy,Romance

Actors:Catherine Rouvel, Fernand Sardou, Jacqueline Morane, Jean-Pierre Granval, Paul Meurisse

Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance

Actors:Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Jean Richard, Juliette Gréco

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama,Music,Romance

Actors:Anna Amendola, Françoise Arnoul, Jean Gabin, Jean-Roger Caussimon, María Félix

A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.

Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance

Actors:Anna Magnani, Duncan Lamont, Nada Fiorelli, Odoardo Spadaro

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 ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Arthur Shields, Esmond Knight, Nora Swinburne, Suprova Mukerjee, Thomas E. Breen

A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Charles Bickford, Joan Bennett, Nan Leslie, Walter Sande

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. ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance

Actors:Francis Lederer, Hurd Hatfield, Judith Anderson, Paulette Goddard

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 ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Betty Field, Beulah Bondi, J. Carrol Naish, Percy Kilbride, Zachary Scott

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice ...

Genre: Drama,War

Actors:George Sanders, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak

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 ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery,Thriller

Actors:Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance

Actors:Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Roland Toutain

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, ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Elisa Ruis, Jaque Catelain, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Pierre Renoir

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard ...

Genre: Drama,Romance,Thriller

Actors:Blanchette Brunoy, Fernand Ledoux, Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class ...

Genre: Drama,History,War

Actors:Dita Parlo, Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Pierre Fresnay

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Gaston Modot, Jean Dasté, Madeleine Sologne, Nadia Sibirskaïa, Vladimir Sokoloff

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 ...

Genre: Comedy,Crime,Drama

Actors:Florelle, Jules Berry, Marcel Lévesque, Odette Talazac, René Lefèvre

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Romance

Actors:Jany Holt, Jean Gabin, Junie Astor, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Prim

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 ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Andrex, Celia Montalván, Charles Blavette, Jenny Hélia, Max Dalban

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 ...

Genre: Comedy

Actors:Charles Granval, Geneviève Cadix, Georges D'Arnoux, Jean Dasté, Jean Gehret, Marcelle Hainia, Max Dalban, Michel Simon, Sévérine Lerczinska

A little boy won’t go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and their friends.

Genre: Comedy

Actors:Fernandel, Jacques Louvigny, Marguerite Pierry, Michel Simon, Nicole Fernandez, Olga Valéry, Sacha Tarride

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, “Lulu”, and make her his mistress. He thinks he ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Georges Flamant, Janie Marèse, Jean Gehret, Lucien Mancini, Magdeleine Bérubet, Max Dalban, Michel Simon, Pierre Desty, Roger Gaillard, Romain Bouquet

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 ...

Genre: Drama,Fantasy

Actors:Amy Wells, Catherine Hessling, Comtesse Tolstoi, Eric Barclay, Guy Ferrant, Jean Storm, Manuel Raaby, Mme. Heuschling

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Catherine Hessling, Jacqueline Forzane, Jean Angelo, Karl Harbacher, Pierre Champagne, Pierre Lestringuez, Raymond Guérin-Catelain, Valeska Gert, Werner Krauss

Jean Renoir’s directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young girl who manages to turn her tragic ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:André Derain, Catherine Hessling, Charlotte Clasis, Georges Térof, Harold Levingston, Henriette Moret, Madame Fockenberghe, Maurice Touzé, Pierre Champagne, Pierre Lestringuez