The best Jean Renoir films
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: La Grande Illusion (1937) · The Rules of the Game (1939) · A Day in the Country (1936). (Updated Sep 27, 2023.)
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
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1
La Grande Illusion (1937)
French officers held prisoner in the First World War.
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2
The Rules of the Game (1939)
A shooting party at a château, and a society coming apart.
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3
A Day in the Country (1936)
A day by the river, from Maupassant.
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4
French Cancan (1955)
The birth of the Moulin Rouge, with Jean Gabin.
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5
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
Workers take over their printing firm.
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6
La Bête Humaine (1938)
Jean Gabin as a train driver, from Zola.
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7
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Michel Simon as a tramp fished out of the Seine.
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8
The River (1951)
An English childhood on the banks of the Ganges.
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9
La Chienne (1931)
Michel Simon as a cashier and Sunday painter.
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10
The Golden Coach (1952)
Anna Magnani and a commedia dell'arte troupe.
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11
The Lower Depths (1936)
Gabin and Louis Jouvet, from Gorky.
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12
The Southerner (1945)
A sharecropper family in Texas.
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13
Toni (1935)
Italian immigrants in Provence, a forerunner of neorealism.
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