René Clair
November 11, 1898 · 127 years old
René Clair was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. He went on to make some of the most innovative early sound films in France, before going abroad to work in the UK and USA for m…
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And Then There Were None
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too l...
I Married a Witch
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
Freedom for Us
Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
Le Million
An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.
The Grand Maneuver
A French lieutenant makes a bet that he can seduce any woman in town in the two weeks before his regiment leaves for maneuvers, but his chosen target (a Parisian divorcée) isn't like other girls he's known.
Le dernier milliardaire
A satirical view of the problems of capitalism - a small state on the brink of bankruptcy invites a foreign billionaire to rule, who soon becomes an insane dictator.
Les fêtes galantes
In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.