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  • Boudu Saved From Drowning
  • Boudu Saved From Drowning review by Zamy from LONDON
    Rated - 4 stars 24 September 2004
    ...What impresses most about a film by Jean Renoir is the complete authenticity of his characters who seem so true to life, with all their qualities and failing expertly disp...  
  • Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
  • Le Crime de Monsieur Lange review by A customer from Leyland
    Rated - 4 stars Une Crime tres populaire 5 April 2006
    ...Jean Renoir's Popular Front comedy/drama of 1936 captures the spirit of the times wonderfully in its compact 76 minutes. The bosses are corrupt, the workers are innocent a...  
  • The River
  • The River review by A customer from London England
    Rated - 4 stars Achingly beautiful 25 August 2006
    ... of first love..and the ache of a loss, all while the Holy Bengal river flows. Jean Renoir managed to capture the natural beauty and mysticism of India over 50 years ago....  

Jean Renoir - filmography


  • The Golden Coach on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Anna Magnani,  Odoardo Spadaro,  Nada Fiorelli
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or) is a ravishing eighteenth-century comic fantasy about a viceroy who receives an exquisite golden coach, and gives it to the tempestuous star of a touring commedia dell'arte company. Master director Jean Renoir's sumptuous tribute to the theatre, presented here in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 36 members
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  • The River (2 discs) on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Nora Swinburne,  Esmond Knight,  Arthur Shields
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Director Jean Renoir's entrancing first colour film, shot entirely on location in India, is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 249 members
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  • La Regle Du Jeu on DVD (1939)
    Starring: Marcel Dalio,  Nora Gregor,  Roland Toutain
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,455 members
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  • Le Crime de Monsieur Lange on DVD (1936)
    Starring: Rene Lefevre,  Jules Berry,  Florelle
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Told in flashback, this dramatic story revolves around the author Lange who is exploited by his ruthless boss who eventually may cause the downfall of his publishing house but disaster is averted by Lange's talent and the political will of the workforce who form a cooperative...
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 396 members
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  • Toni on DVD (1935)
    Starring: Andrex,  Charles Blavette,  Max Dalban
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Financed by Marcel Pagnol's production company, Jean Renoir's "Toni" is a landmark in French filmmaking. Based on a police dossier concerning a provincial crime of passion, it was lensed by Claude Renoir on location (unusually for the time) in the small town of Les Martigues where the actual events ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 217 members
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  • Boudu Saved From Drowning on DVD (1932)
    Starring: Michel Simon,  Charles Granval,  Jean Daste
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Boudu is a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 860 members
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  • La Chienne (1931)
    Starring: Michel Simon,  Janie Marese
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 38% from 5 members
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Jean Renoir facts

5 most recent films

Jean Renoir Collection - 3.5 stars
The Golden Coach - 3.0 stars
The River - 3.0 stars
This Land Of Mine - 3.5 stars
La Regle Du Jeu - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Jean Renoir Collection - 3.5 stars
Partie De Campagne - 3.5 stars
Toni - 3.5 stars
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange - 3.5 stars
La Regle Du Jeu - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

La Chienne - 2.5 stars
The Golden Coach - 3.0 stars
The Amazing Mrs Holliday - 3.0 stars
Swamp Water - 3.0 stars
Boudu Saved From Drowning - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jean Daste - 4 times - show films
Marcel Dalio - 4 times - show films
Pierre Fresnay - 2 times - show films
Suprova Mukerjee - 2 times - show films
Gaston Modot - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Bruce Manning - 1 times - show films