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?

This Land Is Mine

1943

English

7.5

♡ 19

71%

Jean Renoir Director

Casey Johnson as Boy

Trevor Bardette as Courtroom Guard Who Brings Albert's Notes

Maureen O'Hara as Louise Martin

Kent Smith as Paul Martin

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

The Rules of the Game

1939

French

7.9

♡ 14

97%

Jean Renoir Director

Roland Toutain as André Jurieux

Odette Talazac as Madame Charlotte de la Plante

Marcel Dalio as Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest

Jean Renoir as Octave

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

The Human Beast

1938

French

7.5

♡ 6

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

family secrets

husband wife relationship

le havre, france

railwayman

troubled marriage

Jean Renoir Director

Jean Renoir as Cabuche

Jean Gabin as Jacques Lantier

Fernand Ledoux as Roubaud

Simone Simon as Séverine Roubaud

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.