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Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu, Raymond Meunier, Marc Michel
Synopsis: Marc Michel plays an imprisoned man awaiting trial for the attempted murder of his wife. He is transferred to another cell, where his fellow prisoners are planning a jailbreak. He decides to go along with the elaborate plan, and the cellmates attempt to tunnel their way to freedom. Le Trou Read More
Actors: Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer, Lino Ventura, Lea Padovani, Gerard Sety
Synopsis: Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes, screenwriter Max Ophuls and director Jacques Becker offer their spin on the tragic, troubled life of Italian abstract painter Amedeo Modigliani. As played by Gerard Philipe Read More
Actors: Robert Lamoureux, Liselotte Pulver, Daniel Ceccaldi, Georges Chamarat
Synopsis: The French/Italian Adventures of Arsene Lupin is loosely based on stories by Maurice Leblanc. A sprightly opening-credits musical theme clues us in that none of what we're about to see should be taken too seriously. The titular Lupin, played by Robert Lamoreaux is a jewel robber in pre-World War 1 Read More
Actors: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll
Synopsis: This strangely-christened French film noir was released in the U.S. as Grisbi. Jean Gabin stars as a racketeer known by the Runyonesque nickname of Max the Liar. Seeking out the finer things in life, Max intends to pull one last job and retire. After stealing a fortune in gold, our "hero" is faced Read More
Actors: Fernandel, Dieter Borsche, Samia Gamal, Henri Vilbert
Synopsis: Fernandel is the somewhat over-aged Ali Baba in this astonishingly expensive Arabian Nights escapade. In this filmization of the old "Arabian Knights" tale, Ali Baba is a slave who is sent to fetch his master's latest wife (Samia Gamal). The horse-faced family retainer falls in love with the girl Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Anne Vernon, Louis Jourdan, Daniel Gélin, Micheline Dax
Synopsis: Rue de L'Estrapade was filmmaker Jacques Becker's immediate follow-up to his 1952 classic Casque D'Or. That the film does not quite measure up to its predecessor shouldn't be held against it. Anne Vernon and Louis Jourdan play Francoise and Henri, a happily married Parisian couple. Despite his Read More
Actors: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières, Paul Azäis
Synopsis: The Paris demimonde of 1900 is the setting for Casque d'Or. Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani), an honest woodworker, falls in love with Marie (Simone Signoret), the "moll" of minor crook Roland (William Sabatier). Gangster boss Felix Leca (Claude Dauphin) orders Georges and Roland to fight a duel to Read More
Actors: Anne Vernon, Elina Labourdette, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Francois
Synopsis: French filmmaker Jacques Becker's Edouard et Caroline has been described as a film without a story. This isn't quite true, though the most memorable aspect of the film is the byplay between the two title characters. Edouard (Daniel Gelin) is a young, headstrong musician. Caroline (Anne Vernon) is Read More
Actors: Daniel Gélin, Bernard Lajarrige, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Courcel, Brigitte Auber
Synopsis: Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de Juillet has been credited as the first postwar European film to accurately depict the Continental "youth culture." Teenaged Lucien (Daniel Gelin) aspires to become a filmmaker, and to that end organizes his friends into a film unit. The young cineastes hope to make Read More
Actors: Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert, Annette Poivre
Synopsis: Jacques Becker's Antoine et Antoinette bears echoes of the early-talkie Rene Clair classic Le Million. Roger Pigaut plays Antoine, a foreman in a bookbinding factory, while Claire Maffei portrays his salesgirl wife Antoinette. The story gets under way when a valuable lottery ticket is lost Read More
Crew: First Assistant Director
Actors: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Georges Darnoux, Paul Temps
Synopsis: Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country is a short and semisweet romantic vignette based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. A group of family members spend a day away from the city in the French countryside. While the men go off to fish, the mother (Jeanne Marken) has a harmless flirtation with a rural Read More
Actors: Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy, Robert Le Vigan, Arthur Devére
Synopsis: Originally Goupi Mains Rogues, this was the first new French feature film to be shown in the US since the end of WW2-though "new" was a relative term, inasmuch as the film was completed in 1943. The scene is a remote, rustic inn, managed by a scruffy family of peasants known as the Goupis. Read More
Actors: Micheline Presle, Raymond Rouleau, Gabrielle Dorziat
Actors: Raymond Rouleau, Mireille Balin, Georges Rollin
Actors: Dita Parlo, Conchita Montenegro, Albert Prejean, Charles Vanel
Synopsis: L'Or du Cristobal is based on the novel by A. T. Sersteven. Albert Prejean plays the first mate of the French freighter Cristobal when he's suspected of carrying on with Dita Parlo, the wife of the ship's captain. Once on dry land, Prejean is informed by cabaret dancer Conchita Montenegro that the Cristobal Read More
Actors: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Léon Larive, Aimé Clariond, Andrex
Synopsis: Jean Renoir's epic account of the French Revolution juxtaposes the opulent life of King Louis XVI with the poverty of the commoners who rose up to overthrow the monarchy in 1789. The film's title comes from the rallying song which grew out of the peasants' march on the Bastille, the song that Read More
Actors: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich Von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette
Synopsis: Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion is an often witty, sometimes poignant, frequently moving examination of the futility of war. During World War I, twoFrench airmen are shot down while taking Read More
Crew: First Assistant Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Jean Dasté, Julien Bertheau, Jacques Brunius, Max Dalban, Madeleine Sologne, Charles Blavette
Synopsis: Director Jean Renoir returns to the "people of the soil" of his previous Toni in People of France! (originally La Vie est a nous, or A Life for Us). Using a cast of nonprofessionals, Renoir pontificates on the dehumanization of the capitalist system. The film opens as a group of schoolchildren Read More
Actors: Jean Gabin, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Prim, Jany Holt, Junie Astor, Vladimir Sokoloff
Synopsis: Voted 1936's best picture by a circle of prestigious French critics, Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths (Les Bas-Fonds) is based on the "gutter" play by Russian author Maxim Gorky. Louis Jouvet plays The Baron, forced by circumstance to give up his life of luxury and to set up residence in the slums Read More
Actors: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcella Hainia, Jean Gehret, Severine Lerczynska
Synopsis: Boudu (played by Michel Simon, who also produced the film) is a shaggy, foul-smelling tramp who is rescued from drowning by bourgeois Frenchman Charles Granval. Deciding to "reform" Boudu, Granval invites the hobo into his home. Boudu returns the favor by turning the household upside down and by Read More
Crew: Producer
Actors: Pierre Renoir, Winna Winifred
Synopsis: La Nuit du Carrefour (A Night at the Crossroads) may well be the least known of Jean Renoir's sound films. Adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon, the story concentrates on a gang of thieves who utilize a cross-road garage as the hideaway. During their last caper, the gang has accidentally Read More
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