Jean Renoir Movies

List of the best Jean Renoir movies: The Lower Depths(1937), This Land Is Mine(1943), French Cancan(1955), La Marseillaise(1938), The Southerner(1945), Swamp Water(1941), The Elusive Corporal(1962), The Amazing Mrs. Holliday(1943), The Woman on the Beach(1947), Diary of a Chambermaid(1946), Boudu Saved From Drowning(1932), Toni(1935) ... ...

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The Lower Depths

A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.

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This Land Is Mine

A mild-mannered school-teacher in a Nazi-occupied town during W.W.II finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

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French Cancan

This comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge.

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La Marseillaise

A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, ... See full summary »

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The Southerner

The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.

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Swamp Water

Attempting to find his lost dog in a vast Georgia swamp, Ben Ragan stumbles upon wanted murderer Tom Keefer who convinces Ben he was framed for the murder by the real killer.

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The Elusive Corporal

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic... See full summary »

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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

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The Woman on the Beach

A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

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Diary of a Chambermaid

A gold-digging chambermaid (Paulette Goddard) eyes her brooding master (Hurd Hatfield) and drives a valet to murder.

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Boudu Saved From Drowning

A bourgeois Frenchman (Charles Granval) saves the life of a dirty tramp (Michel Simon) who proceeds to seduce his wife (Marcelle Hainia) and take over the house.

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Toni

Italian laborer Toni (Charles Blavette), loved by Marie (Jenny Helia), falls tragically for Spanish Josepha (Celia Montalvan) near Marseille.

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The Rules of the Game

French aristocrats and their servants play hard during a hunting party at a landowner's estate (Marcel Dalio).

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Grand Illusion

World War I French fliers (Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin) become captives of a German aristocrat (Erich von Stroheim) who considers one of them his equal.

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The Rules of the Game

French aristocrats and their servants play hard during a hunting party at a landowner's estate (Marcel Dalio).

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