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Jean Grémillon: During the Occupation (Remorques, Lumière d'été, Le Ciel Est à Vous) (1941-1944)- Dir. Jean Gremillon
Feat. Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud - Three character–driven dramas from the heralded French film director who has been little represented outside of his home country: Remorques…
Loyal 47 Ronin, The (47 Ronin) (1941)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Yoshizaburo Arashi - Sombre rendition of a famous Japanese legend that's both quietly dignified and overtly nationalistic, tooled as propaganda during the height of…
Jour Se Leve, Le (Daybreak) (1939)
- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Jean Gabin, Arletty - A renowned example of 'poetic realism', Jean Gabin gives another consummate performance as a doomed anti–hero. His tragic story is told in…
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…
Alexander Nevsky (1938)- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Nikolai Cherkassov, Nikolai Okhlopkov - Eisenstein's first sound film is a patriotic epic about the 13th century hero who led his people against the Teutonic Knights. Monumental battle…
I Accuse (J'Accuse) (1938)- Dir. Abel Gance
Feat. Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou - Dir. Gance’s own remake of his 1919 silent classic, in which a soldier traumatised by the slaughter of WWI attempts to prevent future…
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…
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…
César (1936)- Dir. Marcel Pagnol
Feat. Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay… - Playwright Marcel Parcol takes over the director's reins himself for this concluding part of his Marseille trilogy, following 'Marius' and 'Fanny'.…
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…
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