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) ... ...
7.6/10
Drama
France
1937
92 Minutes
Director
Jean Gabin Louis Jouvet Jany Holt Suzy Prim Vladimir Sokoloff Junie Astor Robert Le Vigan
landlady landlord sister thief actor baron dark raw brooding russia rooming house poverty abuse murder investigation accidental death affair friendship fall underdog pursuit
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.
7.6/10
Drama
USA
1943
103 Minutes
Director
Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara George Sanders Walter Slezak Kent Smith Una O'Connor Philip Merivale Thurston Hall George Coulouris Nancy Gates Ivan F. Simpson
schoolmaster mother beautiful woman resistance fighter nazi inspiring touching solemn prison europe school nazi occupation collaboration courage false accusations transformation temptation sacrifice 1940s
A mild-mannered school-teacher in a Nazi-occupied town during W.W.II finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.
7.4/10
Musical, Comedy
France|Italy
1955
102 Minutes
Director
Jean Gabin Françoise Arnoul María Félix Anna Amendola Jean-Roger Caussimon Dora Doll Giani Esposito Gaston Gabaroche Franco Pastorino
producer star laundress owner mistress lighthearted cheeky engaging paris café cabaret performance infidelity dance jealousy love triangle underdog discovery rivalry rise
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.
7.1/10
Drama, History
France
1938
130 Minutes
Director
Pierre Renoir Lise Delamare Louis Jouvet Julien Carette Léon Larive William Aguet
king louis xvi marie antoinette soldier revolutionary patriotic unrestrained france paris french revolution royalty social change armed conflict rebellion underdog rise fall 1790s
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 »
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1945
91 Minutes
Director
Zachary Scott Betty Field Beulah Bondi J. Carrol Naish Norman Lloyd Jay Gilpin Estelle Taylor Percy Kilbride Blanche Yurka
farmer wife grandmother emotional spirited moving texas farm farming aspirations poverty family quest love sacrifice underdog 1940s
The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.
7.1/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
90 Minutes
Director
Walter Brennan Dana Andrews Walter Huston Anne Baxter Virginia Gilmore John Carradine Mary Howard Eugene Pallette Ward Bond Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Russell Simpson
fugitive hunter son girlfriend daughter father tense emotional georgia swamp shack small town love triangle family feud false accusations quest discovery forbidden love 1940s
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.
7.1/10
Comedy, Drama
France
1962
108 Minutes
Director
Jean-Pierre Cassel Claude Brasseur Claude Rich O.E. Hasse Jacques Jouanneau Sacha Briquet
corporal prisoner of war german soldier assistant waiter farmer suspenseful uplifting amusing prison camp train paris germany prison break world war ii bombing resilience capture cowardice escape
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 »
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
96 Minutes
Director
Deanna Durbin Edmond O'Brien Barry Fitzgerald Arthur Treacher Harry Davenport Grant Mitchell Frieda Inescort Elisabeth Risdon Jonathan Hale Esther Dale
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1947
71 Minutes
Director
Joan Bennett Robert Ryan Charles Bickford Nan Leslie Walter Sande Irene Ryan Frank Darien Jay Norris Glen Vernon Hugh Chapman Carl Faulkner
coast guard officer fiancée wife husband painter blind man brooding melodramatic suspenseful dreamy beach cliff boat house coast love triangle jealousy paranoia deception infidelity
A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
Comedy, Drama
1946
86 Minutes
Director
Paulette Goddard Burgess Meredith Hurd Hatfield Francis Lederer Judith Anderson Florence Bates Irene Ryan Reginald Owen
A gold-digging chambermaid (Paulette Goddard) eyes her brooding master (Hurd Hatfield) and drives a valet to murder.
Comedy
1932
84 Minutes
Director
Michel Simon Charles Granval Marcelle Hainia Jean Gehret Max Dalban Jean Dasté Sévérine Lerczinska
shopkeeper wife tramp maid charming cheery witty paris family home street class distinctions suicide attempt infidelity transformation fall 1930s
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.
Drama
1935
90 Minutes
Director
Blavette Jenny Helia Celia Montalvan Max Dalban Edouard Delmont Andrex Paul Bozzi Jacques Levert
italian immigrant laborer foreman landlady love interest gritty passionate bleak provence, france quarry village vineyard doomed romance work immigration rape love love rescue
Italian laborer Toni (Charles Blavette), loved by Marie (Jenny Helia), falls tragically for Spanish Josepha (Celia Montalvan) near Marseille.
Comedy, Drama
1939
110 Minutes
Writer
Marcel Dalio Nora Gregor Mila Parely Roland Toutain Jean Renoir Paulette Dubost Gaston Modot Julien Carette Odette Talazac Pierre Magnier Pierre Nay
servant pilot aristocrat game warden poacher maid witty frenetic france country house love triangle infidelity class distinctions high society mistaken identity rivalry forbidden love 1930s
French aristocrats and their servants play hard during a hunting party at a landowner's estate (Marcel Dalio).
War, Drama
1937
117 Minutes
Director
Pierre Fresnay Erich von Stroheim Jean Gabin Marcel Dalio Dita Parlo Julien Carette Gaston Modot Georges Peclet Jean Dasté Sylvain Itkine Jacques Becker
captain soldier captor widow powerful amusing touching p.o.w. camp castle countryside germany class distinctions world war i friendship escape sacrifice 1910s
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.
Comedy, Drama
1939
110 Minutes
Writer
Marcel Dalio Nora Gregor Mila Parely Roland Toutain Jean Renoir Paulette Dubost Gaston Modot Julien Carette Odette Talazac Pierre Magnier Pierre Nay
servant pilot aristocrat game warden poacher maid witty frenetic france country house love triangle infidelity class distinctions high society mistaken identity rivalry forbidden love 1930s
French aristocrats and their servants play hard during a hunting party at a landowner's estate (Marcel Dalio).
Copyright © 2021 www.findthatmovie.com. All Rights Reserved
FindThatMovie.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Watch Trailer