Screenplay: Jean Renoir

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jean Renoir. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Rules of the Game

1939 · Movie · 113 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Marcel Dalio · Nora Gregor · Jean Renoir · Roland Toutain

Plot André Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a French aviation hero, has fallen in love with Christine de la Chesnaye (Nora Gregor), who is married to wealthy aristocrat Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye...

8.0

7K votes

8.0

7K votes

Grande Illusion

1937 · Movie · 114 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Erich von Stroheim · Pierre Fresnay · Marcel Dalio

Plot 1916, during World War I. Lieutenant Maréchal and Capitaine de Boeldieu are two combat pilots who are shot down by the Germans. They are taken to a prisoner of war...

8.0

8K votes

8.0

8K votes

This Land is Mine

1943 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · George Sanders · Walter Slezak

Plot A mild-mannered schoolteacher in a Nazi occupied town during WWII finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

The River

1951 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Patricia Walters · Adrienne Corri · Nora Swinburne · Esmond Knight

Plot Harriet (Patricia Walters) is a pensive, awkward, and fanciful adolescent growing up in Bengal near the banks of the river. The eldest child of a jute factory manager (Esmond Knight),...

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7.8

4K votes

7.8

4K votes

A Day in the Country

1936 · Movie · 40 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Sylvia Bataille · Georges Darnoux · Jane Marken · André Gabriello

Plot The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love to a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

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7.8

3K votes

7.8

3K votes

The Lower Depths

1936 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Junie Astor · Suzy Prim · Louis Jouvet

Plot The film treats the imprisoning hold of poverty; the disheartening odds of people rising from such social despair, and the ease in which those in the upper spheres of Society...

7.4

867 votes

7.4

867 votes

La bête humaine

1938 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Simone Simon · Fernand Ledoux · Julien Carette

Plot In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast René Lefèvre · Florelle · Jules Berry · Marcel Lévesque

Plot A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala...

7.4

954 votes

7.4

954 votes

7.4

23 votes

Toni

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Charles Blavette · Celia Montalván · Édouard Delmont · Max Dalban

Plot The story is the basic "good man destroyed by bad woman" conceit: An Italian laborer sets the gears in motion for Zola-esque tragedy by falling in love with a young...

7.4

853 votes

7.4

853 votes

The Bitch

1931 · Movie · 91 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Michel Simon · Janie Marèse · Georges Flamant · Roger Gaillard

Plot Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing...

7.3

878 votes

7.3

878 votes

French Cancan

1955 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · María Félix · Françoise Arnoul · Jean-Roger Caussimon

Plot Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe 'Le Paravent Chinois' featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmarte (circa 1890) where the then-old-fashioned cancan is still...

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (TV)

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Nino Formicola · Milly · Roger Trapp · Robert Lombard

Plot Made for television, this film consists of four parts: Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part...

7.2

37 votes

7.2

37 votes

The Marseillaise

1938 · Movie · 135 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Pierre Renoir · Lise Delamare · Louis Jouvet · Léon Larive

Plot Another project inspired by the success of the brief Popular Front government, LA MARSEILLAISE stars Pierre Renoir as Louis XVI. Told from the point of view of the common people,...

7.1

721 votes

7.1

721 votes

Boudu Saved from Drowning

1932 · Movie · 81 min. · France

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

The Vanishing Corporal

1962 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Claude Brasseur · O.E. Hasse · Claude Rich

Plot An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter,...

6.9

288 votes

6.9

288 votes

Picnic on the Grass

1959 · Movie · 91 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Paul Meurisse · Catherine Rouvel · Charles Blavette · André Brunot

Plot Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. His wealthy household (his family owns...

6.9

489 votes

6.9

489 votes

The Golden Coach

1952 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Anna Magnani · Odoardo Spadaro · Nada Fiorelli · Dance

Plot A small town of Central America in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. The Vice King gives her his magnificent golden coach....

6.9

622 votes

6.9

622 votes

The Southerner

1945 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Zachary Scott · Betty Field · J. Carrol Naish · Beulah Bondi

Plot Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a...

6.9

542 votes

6.9

542 votes

Experiment in Evil (The Doctor's Horrible Experiment)

1959 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Teddy Bilis · Michel Vitold · Jean Topart

Plot Based on the Novel: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. A lawyer, Joly (Teddy Bilis) is disturbed when his friend, the eminent psychiatrist...

6.8

408 votes

6.8

408 votes