Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir

September 15, 1894

Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter…

Known For

22 titles
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The Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion

1937 · 1h 53m · Movie

During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.

8.1
2
The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game

1939 · 1h 50m · Movie

A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

7.9
3
The Human Beast

The Human Beast

1938 · 1h 40m · Movie

In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

7.5
4
A Day in the Country

A Day in the Country

1946 · 40m · Movie

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

7.5
5
The River

The River

1951 · 1h 39m · Movie

The growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.

7.4
6
Boudu Saved from Drowning

Boudu Saved from Drowning

1932 · 1h 25m · Movie

A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.

7.2
7
The Bitch

The Bitch

1931 · 1h 35m · Movie

Maurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship ...

7.5
8
The Southerner

The Southerner

1945 · 1h 32m · Movie

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

7.1
9
The Lower Depths

The Lower Depths

1936 · 1h 30m · Movie

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.

7.5
10
This Land Is Mine

This Land Is Mine

1943 · 1h 43m · Movie

A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.

7.5
11
The Crime of Monsieur Lange

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

1936 · 1h 17m · Movie

The boss of a publishing company is a womanizer and a jerk, but what would happen if he suddenly disappeared?

7.3
12
The Golden Coach

The Golden Coach

1952 · 1h 43m · Movie

Three men of varying social standing - a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a soldier - vie for the affections of an actress in 18th-century Peru.

7.0
13
The Woman on the Beach

The Woman on the Beach

1947 · 1h 11m · Movie

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

6.4
14
Swamp Water

Swamp Water

1941 · 1h 28m · Movie

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.

7.0
15
Elena and Her Men

Elena and Her Men

1956 · 1h 38m · Movie

Polish countess Elena falls in love with a French radical party's candidate - a general - in pre-World War I Paris, but another officer pines for her. Starring Ingrid Bergman, with Mel Ferrer and Jean Marais as the rivals for her ...

6.2
16
The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl

1928 · 40m · Movie

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.

7.1
17
The Diary of a Chambermaid

The Diary of a Chambermaid

1946 · 1h 26m · Movie

A chambermaid plots to climb the social ladder by marrying a wealthy man.

6.6
18
Experiment in Evil

Experiment in Evil

1960 · 1h 35m · Movie

Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier's lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people's behavior can be adjusted at will...

6.5
19
The Spanish Earth

The Spanish Earth

1937 · 52m · Movie

A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

6.5
20
Whirlpool of Fate

Whirlpool of Fate

1925 · 1h 11m · Movie

After her father's death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the peasants coerce her to flee the peasants' riot. ...

6.7
21
Baby's Laxative

Baby's Laxative

1931 · 46m · Movie

A porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.

6.0
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Life Is Ours

Life Is Ours

1936 · 1h 6m · Movie

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing who the comrades help the proletarian people against the capitalists. It also features propagandistic speeches of leading members of the party.

5.9