Direction: René Clair

Direction René Clair

Cast Raymond Cordy · Henri Marchand · Paul Ollivier · André Michaud

Synopsis 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 are reduced to mere automatons. Blackmailed over his past, he...

Direction René Clair

Cast Maurice Chevalier · François Périer · Marcelle Derrien · Dany Robin

Synopsis 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 in love. This, of course, sets the scene for Emile...

Direction René Clair

Cast Jean Börlin · Inge Frïss · Francis Picabia · Marcel Duchamp

Synopsis 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 the coffin dissapear.

Direction René Clair

Cast Pierre Brasseur · Georges Brassens · Henri Vidal · Dany Carrel

Synopsis An old bum becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl who gets entangled with a young gangster.

Direction René Clair

Cast Annabella · George Rigaud · Raymond Cordy · Paul Ollivier

Synopsis 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 the bal. Many events (Pola's come back, two villains...) will...

Direction René Clair

Cast Albert Préjean · Pola Illéry · Gaston Modot · Bill Bocket

Synopsis 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 of love and human foibles, told primarily through song, captures...

Direction René Clair

Cast Albert Préjean · Geymond Vital · Olga Tschechowa · Paul Ollivier

Direction René Clair

Cast Gérard Philipe · Martine Carol · Gina Lollobrigida · Magali Vendeuil

Synopsis A young composer has vivid dreams of the past that reflect, yet conflict with his waking life.

Direction René Clair

Cast Henri Rollan · Charles Martinelli · Louis Pré · Madeleine Rodrigue

Synopsis 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 stand. With magical and wonderful shots of a Paris long...

Direction René Clair

Cast Annabella · René Lefèvre · Jean-Louis Allibert · Paul Ollivier

Synopsis 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 his indignant fiancée Béatrice. Suddenly, Michel learns that he holds...

Direction René Clair

Cast Dick Powell · Linda Darnell · Jack Oakie · Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis 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 cautions against using it. Now able to predict the news...

Direction René Clair

Cast Michel Simon · Gérard Philipe · Nicole Besnard · Simone Valère

Synopsis 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 of Lucifer, appears and grants him youth and a new...

Direction René Clair

Cast Walter Huston · Roland Young · Louis Hayward · June Duprez

Synopsis 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 all the people are accused of murder, suddenly the first...

Direction René Clair

Cast Fredric March · Veronica Lake · Robert Benchley · Susan Hayward

Synopsis 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 is about to marry tart-tongued Estelle, but Jennifer has other...

Direction René Clair

Cast Bourvil · Alfred Adam · Philippe Noiret · Claude Rich

Direction René Clair

Cast Dolly Davis · Jean Börlin · Albert Préjean · Jim Gerald

Synopsis 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 no respect for him.

Direction René Clair

Cast Michèle Morgan · Gérard Philipe · Brigitte Bardot · Jacques Fabbri

Synopsis 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 leaving for summer maneuvers. Drawing the name of his quarry...

Direction René Clair

Synopsis 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 to change their minds.

Direction René Clair

Cast Max Dearly · Sinoël · Paul Ollivier · Marthe Mellot

Direction René Clair

Cast Robert Donat · Jean Parker · Eugene Pallette · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis 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 Glourie is reluctantly bundled off, only to be blown up...