Jean Renoir
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hania
- Renoir's joyfully anarchic attack on the bourgeoisie in which vagrant Michel Simon wreaks emotional havoc in the orderly household that have offered…
- Le Crime De Monsieur Lange (1935)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Rene Lefevre, Florelle , Jules Berry
- One of the dir.’s early classics. Rene Leferve rises to newsprint fame as the author of the serial “Arizona Jim” after his boss, a…
- Une Partie de Campagne (A Day in the Country) (1936)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Sylvia Bataille
- This evocative, unfinished short (originally part of a full–length feature) lovingly captures the flirtations of a young girl as she detours…
- Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim…
- The heroics and hypocrasies of war are illustrated through an imprisoned French squadron in WW1 and their cultured German commandant. A hailed…
- Bete Humaine, La (1938)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux…
- Adaptation of Zola's romantic tragedy brims with tension and exults the presense of French icon Jean Gabin as a hot–headed train driver coaxed…
- Marseillaise, La (1938)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Pierre Renoir, Lisa Delamare, Leon Larive…
- Renoir's classic depicts events leading up to the French revolution in the 18th Century, electing to extract history from the heart of the common…
- La Regle Du Jeu (Rules of the Game) (1939)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Roland Toutain…
- Considered one the greatest films in history, this downbeat yet incisive satire centres around weekend shooting party that results in a myriad of…
- Swamp Water (1941)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter…
- An interesting melodrama, dank with the regional atmosphere of the Florida Everglades, about the problems undergone by a youthful fur trapper…
- Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Paulette Goddard
- Chambermaid Paulette Goddard upsets an aristocratic household brimming with secrets and intrigues. One of Renoir's early Hollywood pictures.
- Southerner, The (1945)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Betty Field, Zachary Scott, Beulah Bondi…
- One of dir. Renoir's finest American films, follows the year–long trial of a young family who attempt to grow cotton on a derelict…
- River, The (1951)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Nora Swinburne, Arthur Shields
- A sublime and serene drama set on the banks of India's holy Bengal River in the 1920s, where a trio of young English girls come under the spell of a…
- Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or) (1952)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli
- Dir. Renoir's classic comedy focuses on a group of commedia dell'arte actors in the eighteenth Century and the much–desired central figure of…
- French Can Can (French Cancan, Only the French Can) (1955)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Michel Piccoli, Dora Doll…
- Jean Renoir returned to France after 15 years absence to make this vibrant tribute to the Parisian world of his father, the Impressionist painter…
- Elena and Her Men (Paris Does Strange Things) (1956)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer
- Ingrid Bergman plays a Polish princess torn between marrying for love, or wealth, in this slinky, sweet–natured comic romance. Mel Ferrer, Jean…