# The best Jean Renoir films

From La Chienne to French Cancan: the Jean Renoir films critics and audiences put at the top (DVDClassik, SensCritique, Cinémathèque française).

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## Top 12

1. **La Grande Illusion (1937)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — French officers held prisoner in the First World War.
2. **The Rules of the Game (1939)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A shooting party at a château, and a society coming apart.
3. **A Day in the Country (1936)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A day by the river, from Maupassant.
4. **French Cancan (1955)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The birth of the Moulin Rouge, with Jean Gabin.
5. **The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Workers take over their printing firm.
6. **La Bête Humaine (1938)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean Gabin as a train driver, from Zola.
7. **Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Michel Simon as a tramp fished out of the Seine.
8. **The River (1951)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An English childhood on the banks of the Ganges.
9. **La Chienne (1931)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Michel Simon as a cashier and Sunday painter.
10. **The Golden Coach (1952)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Anna Magnani and a commedia dell'arte troupe.
11. **The Lower Depths (1936)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gabin and Louis Jouvet, from Gorky.
12. **The Southerner (1945)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A sharecropper family in Texas.
13. **Toni (1935)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Italian immigrants in Provence, a forerunner of neorealism.

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