Direction: René Clair
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by René Clair. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
À nous la liberté (Freedom for Us)
1931 · Movie · 79 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Raymond Cordy · Henri Marchand · Paul Ollivier · André Michaud
Plot A famous left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom works his way up from salesman to factory owner, where he oversees a highly mechanised operation where the workers...
7.2
774 votes
7.2
774 votes
Silence Is Golden
1947 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Maurice Chevalier · François Périer · Marcelle Derrien · Dany Robin
Plot Paris, 1920, period of the silent cinema. Emile, a film maker, takes under his wing Jacques and schools him in the art of seduction whilst counselling him never to fall...
7.1
167 votes
7.1
167 votes
Entr'acte (S)
1924 · Movie · 22 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Jean Börlin · Inge Frïss · Francis Picabia · Marcel Duchamp
Plot An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed...
7.1
999 votes
7.1
999 votes
Gate of Lilacs
1957 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Pierre Brasseur · Georges Brassens · Henri Vidal · Dany Carrel
Plot An old bum becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl who gets entangled with a young gangster.
7.1
261 votes
7.1
261 votes
Bastille Day (July 14)
1933 · Movie · 86 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Annabella · George Rigaud · Raymond Cordy · Paul Ollivier
Plot Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to...
6.9
136 votes
6.9
136 votes
Under the Roofs of Paris
1930 · Movie · 96 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Albert Préjean · Pola Illéry · Gaston Modot · Bill Bocket
Plot In René Clair's irrepressibly romantic portrait of the crowded tenements of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman. This witty exploration...
6.9
670 votes
6.9
670 votes
The Horse Ate the Hat
1928 · Movie · 112 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Albert Préjean · Geymond Vital · Olga Tschechowa · Paul Ollivier
6.9
107 votes
6.9
107 votes
Beauties of the Night
1952 · Movie · 87 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Gérard Philipe · Martine Carol · Gina Lollobrigida · Magali Vendeuil
Plot A young composer has vivid dreams of the past that reflect, yet conflict with his waking life.
6.8
53 votes
6.8
53 votes
Paris Asleep
1924 · Movie · 35 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Henri Rollan · Charles Martinelli · Louis Pré · Madeleine Rodrigue
Plot Early roots of sci-fi magic are given to us in the form of a scientist who invents a ray that makes people caught in its beam fall asleep where they...
6.8
329 votes
6.8
329 votes
The Million
1931 · Movie · 83 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Annabella · René Lefèvre · Jean-Louis Allibert · Paul Ollivier
Plot Michel, a Parisian artist, is being hounded by numerous impatient creditors. To make things worse, when he is embracing the woman whose portrait he is painting, he is surprised by...
6.8
268 votes
6.8
268 votes
It Happened Tomorrow
1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction René Clair
Cast Dick Powell · Linda Darnell · Jack Oakie · Edgar Kennedy
Plot An ambitious newspaper reporter, eager to scoop the competition, wishes he could know the news before it happens. A mysterious old man grants the reporter that power, even as he...
6.7
614 votes
6.7
614 votes
Beauty and the Devil
1950 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Michel Simon · Gérard Philipe · Nicole Besnard · Simone Valère
Plot Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature...whereupon his old acquaintance Mephistopheles, servant...
6.7
94 votes
6.7
94 votes
And Then There Were None
1945 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction René Clair
Cast Walter Huston · Roland Young · Louis Hayward · June Duprez
Plot Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn't on the island. At dinner a record is played, by that...
6.7
3K votes
6.7
3K votes
I Married a Witch
1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction René Clair
Cast Fredric March · Veronica Lake · Robert Benchley · Susan Hayward
Plot In 1672, two witches (Jennifer and her father Daniel) are burned by puritan Jonathan Wooley; in 1942, they re-materialize to plague his descendant Wallace Wooley, candidate for state governor. Wallace...
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
All the Gold in the World
1961 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Bourvil · Alfred Adam · Philippe Noiret · Claude Rich
6.4
220 votes
6.4
220 votes
The Imaginary Voyage
1926 · Movie · 80 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Dolly Davis · Jean Börlin · Albert Préjean · Jim Gerald
Plot The movie describes a meek bank clerk enamored with a typist. The hero lacks confidence in himself and lets his colleagues push him around, which leads the girl to have...
6.4
62 votes
6.4
62 votes
The Grand Maneuver
1955 · Movie · 106 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Michèle Morgan · Gérard Philipe · Brigitte Bardot · Jacques Fabbri
Plot Clair's romantic comedy on the power of love over pride. Set in a pre-WWI garrison town, a handsome soldier (Philipe) wagers that he can seduce any woman he pleases before...
6.4
291 votes
6.4
291 votes
La tour (S)
1928 · Documentary · 11 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Plot This is a documentary about the famous tower which was built for the 1889 World Fair and should have been destroyed afterward but the people in Paris were wise enough...
6.4
76 votes
6.4
76 votes
The Last Billionaire
1934 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction René Clair
Cast Max Dearly · Sinoël · Paul Ollivier · Marthe Mellot
6.3
59 votes
6.3
59 votes
The Ghost Goes West
1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction René Clair
Cast Robert Donat · Jean Parker · Eugene Pallette · Elsa Lanchester
Plot In the 18th Century the Glourie clan are called cowards by their rivals, the MacClaggan clan, for not going off to war with the English. And so the womanizing Murdoch...
6.2
409 votes
6.2
409 votes