Screenplay: Jean Renoir
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jean Renoir. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 36
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),...
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.
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
La direction d'acteur par Jean Renoir
1969 · Documentary · 27 min. · France
Direction Gìsèle Hauchecome
Cast Gìsèle Hauchecome · Jean Renoir
7.4
23 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
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Michel Simon · Charles Granval · Marcelle Hainia
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