Jean Renoir Movies

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

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

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.

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

Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie, w...

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

A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces wh...

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 t...

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

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 o...

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...

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. Fe...

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 o...