Direction: René Clément

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by René Clément. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Forbidden Games

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Georges Poujouly · Brigitte Fossey · Amédée · Laurence Badie

Synopsis The story focuses on Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a five-year-old refugee from Paris taken in by a peasant family after her parents are killed during a bombardment of a civilian convoy. Michel Dolle (Georges Pujouly), the family's 11-year-old son, becomes her...

7.8

3K votes

7.8

3K votes

Purple Noon

1960 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Alain Delon · Maurice Ronet · Billy Kearns · Marie Laforêt

Synopsis René Clément's thriller Purple Noon stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, an American who travels to Europe on an all-expenses-paid mission to convince his friend, the errant playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet), to travel to San Francisco at the request...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Gervaise

1956 · Movie · 116 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Maria Schell · François Périer · Armand Mestral · Suzy Delair

Synopsis Paris, 1852. When her lover, Lantier, walks out on her, a lame young woman, Gervaise Macquart, is left to make a living for herself and her two young children. Her lot seems to improve when she falls in love with...

7.1

113 votes

7.1

113 votes

Is Paris Burning?

1966 · Movie · 175 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Charles Boyer · Leslie Caron · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis August 1944. The French and American armies are nearing the French capital. Hitler orders one of his generals to retain control of the city or else destroy it. After the massacre of some students, Colonel Rol incites the public to...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Damned

1947 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Marcel Dalio · Henri Vidal · Florence Marly · Fosco Giachetti

Synopsis Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last day, a group of Nazis and sympathizers (a Wehrmacht general, an SS leader and his "assistant", an Italian industrialist and his wife who is also the general's lover,...

6.9

207 votes

6.9

207 votes

Au-delà des grilles

1949 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Jean Gabin · Isa Miranda · Vera Talchi · Andrea Checchi

Synopsis Jean Gabin stars as a Frenchman wanted for a crime of passion who leaves his hiding place aboard a ship to seek medical help in Genoa, Italy. There he befriends a young girl, becomes involved with her mother, and once...

6.7

107 votes

6.7

107 votes

The Battle of the Rails

1946 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Marcel Barnault · Jean Clarieux · Jean Daurand · Jacques Desagneaux

Synopsis This movie is a story about French railroad workers who were part of organized resistance during the German WW2 occupation.

6.7

108 votes

6.7

108 votes

Joy House

1964 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Alain Delon · Jane Fonda · Lola Albright · Sorrell Booke

Synopsis French filmmaker Rene Clement presents Alan Delon as a petty criminal on the run from the underground. On the Rivera, he seeks refuge in a flophouse whose soup line is served by Jane Fonda and Lola Albright. The two women...

6.5

454 votes

6.5

454 votes

The Joy of Living

1960 · Movie · 123 min. · Italy

Direction René Clément

Cast Alain Delon · Barbara Lass · Gino Cervi · Rina Morelli

Synopsis Ulisse (Delon) is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown...

6.4

253 votes

6.4

253 votes

Lovers, Happy Lovers!

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Gérard Philipe · Valerie Hobson · Joan Greenwood · Margaret Johnston

Synopsis From the Louis Hemon novel "M. Ripois and His Nemesis" about Andre Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London. Andre is breaking up with his wife, Catherine, over his attentions to her best friend...

6.3

33 votes

6.3

33 votes

The Day and the Hour

1963 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Simone Signoret · Stuart Whitman · Geneviève Page · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some...

6.3

94 votes

6.3

94 votes

Soigne ton gauche (S)

1936 · Movie · 12 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Jacques Tati · Max Martel · Louis Robur · Jean Aurel

Synopsis A boxer is out in the country with his entourage, training for his next fight. Meanwhile, on the farm nearby, Roger is neglecting his chores. As he watches the boxer and his sparring partners at work, Roger starts to fantasize...

6.1

136 votes

6.1

136 votes

Rain

1970 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Marlène Jobert · Charles Bronson · Annie Cordy · Jill Ireland

Synopsis A beautiful young woman in the South of France is stalked by, then raped by, a mysterious masked assailant. She shoots him dead soon afterwards and dumps his corpse in the sea. Later, an American investigator turns up, and to...

6.0

247 votes

6.0

247 votes

5.9

55 votes

The House Under the Trees

1971 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Faye Dunaway · Frank Langella · Barbara Parkins · Karen Blanguernon

Synopsis Jill is surprised and angry when her computer-genius boyfriend decides to quit his job in a big company for unclear reasons. But when her children disapear mysteriously and seem to have been kidnapped, she wants to know more, and discovers...

5.2

119 votes

5.2

119 votes

Mr. Orchid

1946 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Noël-Noël · Maurice Chevit · Alice Leitner · Georges Questau

Synopsis In the Charente, during the Nazi occupation, Edouard Martin, a fifty-year-old man with apparently peaceful life is in fact the leader of a resistance network.

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The Glass Castle

1950 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Michèle Morgan · Jean Marais · Jean Servais · Fosco Giachetti

Synopsis Evlyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Remy, that lives in Paris, during Holidays. After following him in the lovers city, she decides to return home to inform her husband about all - but her plane crashes. Written...

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Scar Tissue

1975 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Nadja Tiller · Maria Schneider · Sydne Rome · Vic Morrow

Synopsis A naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy food mogul. Her and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a vengeful movie star.

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This Angry Age

1958 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

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Not rated