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A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
The Rules of the Game
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...
The Emma Bovary Trial
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and...
La Bête Humaine
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.
A Day in the Country
A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most...
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks...
Mam'zelle Nitouche
With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to...
Those of Our Land
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,...
La P’tite Lili
Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
Charleston Parade
A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces...
The Spanish Earth
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...
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
A example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right frame of mind.
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.
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...
Backbiters
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...
Little Red Riding Hood
The Pursuit of Happiness
Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
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...
Un tournage à la campagne
The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Jean Renoir talks about the making of La Petite Marchande d'allumettes.
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
Langlois
Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their...
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Three-part interview with French film director Jean Renoir, conducted by French New Wave director Jacques Rivette.
Jean Renoir parle de son art
A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.
The Christian Licorice Store
This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality....
François Truffaut l'insoumis
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...
Quand Jean devint Renoir
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Life Is Ours
Passers-by, those who knew him in his youth, René Barjavel, witness of his beginnings, his wife, his doctor, writers ... By questioning them...
D'un Céline l'autre
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