Jean Renoir

The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and...

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The...

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and...

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.

Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to...

With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to...

La P’tite Lili is a silent short drama depicting the fate of a young orphaned girl in the working-class districts of Paris. The film follows Lili,...

Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking...

In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyzing scenes from La Marseillaise and The Rules of...

A example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right frame of mind.

Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.

About the conflict between social classes through the life of the unhappy Catherine Ferrand, an orphan girl, who is a victim of the jealousy of women...

This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she...

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

Edited from 4½ hours of unused material left over from the shooting of Jean Renoir's 1936 PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE (A Day in the Country) and donated by...

The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.

Jean Renoir talks about the making of La Petite Marchande d'allumettes.

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their...

Three-part interview with French film director Jean Renoir, conducted by French New Wave director Jacques Rivette.

A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality....

The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image...

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Passers-by, those who knew him in his youth, René Barjavel, witness of his beginnings, his wife, his doctor, writers ... By questioning them Michel...

Three vignettes and a musical interlude showcase acclaimed auteur Jean Renoir's eclectic range at the end of his career: the relationship between an...

This analysis is based on an ideological commentary on Renoir's film. From the beginning, the reading, unilateral, gives keys to interpret the...