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7.3

♡ 10

100%

Jean Renoir Director

Sylvia Bataille as Edith

Odette Talazac as The Concierge's Wife

Henri Guisol as The Son Meunier

Marcel Lupovici as (uncredited)

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?

Toni

1935

7.2

♡ 5

100%

Jean Renoir Director

Édouard Delmont as Fernand

Paul Bozzi as Guitar Player

Celia Montalván as Josefa

Vincent Florio as Un enfant de choeur

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.

The River

1951

7.4

♡ 15

92%

78%

based on novel or book

Jean Renoir Director

Nimai Barik as Kanu

Jane Harris as Muffie

Esmond Knight as The Father

Adrienne Corri as Valerie

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.

The Golden Coach

1952

7.0

♡ 10

100%

Jean Renoir Director

Anna Magnani as Camilla

Renato Chiantoni as Capitaine Fracasse

Elena Altieri as Duchesse de Castro

Duncan Lamont as Ferdinand, Le Viceroy

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

Elena and Her Men

1956

6.2

♡ 4

71%

Jean Renoir Director

Ingrid Bergman as Elena Sokorowska

Jean-Claude Brialy as Extra

Mel Ferrer as Le comte Henri de Chevincourt

Magali Noël as Lolotte

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.

La Marseillaise

1938

7.0

♡ 3

78%

Jean Renoir Director

Robert Rollis as

Édouard Delmont as Anatole Roux dit 'Cabri'

Jaque Catelain as Le capitaine Langlade

Louis Jouvet as Roederer, le procureur du département

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.

French Cancan

1955

7.3

♡ 9

100%

Jean Renoir Director

Valentino Garavani as Extra

Michel Piccoli as Le Capitaine Valorgueil

Giani Esposito as Prince Alexandre

Jacques Marin as Un spectateur

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.

The Lower Depths

1936

7.5

♡ 4

Jean Renoir Director

Maurice Baquet as Alochka - le fou accordéoniste

Vladimir Sokoloff as Kostylev

Junie Astor as Natacha

Jean Gabin as Pepel Wasska

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.

The Little Match Girl

1928

7.1

♡ 1

69%

Jean Renoir Director

Eric Barclay as

Manuel Raaby as

Jean Storm as Axel Ott / soldat en bois

Catherine Hessling as Karen

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.

The Elusive Corporal

1962

7.0

♡ 2

89%

Jean Renoir Director

Jean Carmet as Guillaume

Jean-Pierre Cassel as Le caporal / The Corporal

Guy Bedos as Le prisonnier qui bégaye

Adolf Hitler as Self

The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.

Picnic on the Grass

1959

6.5

♡ 13

Comedy

Romance

Jean Renoir Director

Catherine Rouvel as Nénette

Jean Claudio as Rousseau

Jacqueline Morane as Titine

Thierry Roland as TV announcer

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.

Life Is Ours

1936

5.9

♡ 3

Drama

History

Jean Renoir Director

Jean Renoir as Le patron du bistrot

Jean Dasté as L'instituteur / Teacher

Roger Blin as Un métallo

Vladimir Sokoloff as Un vieillard dans le cortège final

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

Boudu Saved from Drowning

1932

7.2

♡ 7

100%

Jean Renoir Director

Geneviève Cadix as

Sévérine Lerczinska as Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne

Michel Simon as Priape Boudu

Jean Gehret as Vigour

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.

Experiment in Evil

1959

6.5

♡ 5

100%

Jean Renoir Director

Jacqueline Morane as Alberte

Bernard Fresson as Extra

Jean-Louis Barrault as Le docteur Cordelier / Opale

Catherine Rouvel as (scenes deleted)

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.

The Woman on the Beach

1947

post traumatic stress disorder

6.4

♡ 2

48%

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

Romance

Jean Renoir Director

Harry Harvey as Dr. Smith

Martha Hyer as Mrs. Barton

John Elliott as Old Workman

Joan Bennett as Peggy

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

The Diary of a Chambermaid

1946

6.5

♡ 5

Drama

Romance

Jean Renoir Director

Reginald Owen as Captain Lanlaire

Paulette Goddard as Célestine

Hurd Hatfield as Georges Lanlaire

Francis Lederer as Joseph

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?

The Bitch

1931

7.5

♡ 12

100%

87%

based on novel or book

Jean Renoir Director

Henri Guisol as Amédée - le garçon de café

Georges Flamant as André Jauguin dit Dédé

Sylvain Itkine as L'avocat de Dédé

Michel Simon as Maurice Legrand

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.

La grande illusion

1937