
Jean Renoir
Known for DirectingBorn 1894-09-15Died 1979-02-12Paris, France
Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962). In the 1930s, Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films reflect the movement's left-wing politics and deal with social issues as well as class disparities. He was perhaps the most significant director of the poetic realism movement. The satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939) is often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made; it is the only film to earn a place among the top ten films in the respected British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll for every decade from the poll's inception in 1952 through the 2012 list. Other important works are Grand Illusion (1937), A Day in the Country (1946) and The River (1951). Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.Read more
Movies & web series
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Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017 · Movie
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A Salute to France
1944 · Movie
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978 · Series
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
1967 · Movie
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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993 · Movie
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Cristobal's Gold
1940 · Movie
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Cinépanorama
1956 · Series
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1967 · Movie
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Le Parti du cinéma
2021 · Movie
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Discorama
1959 · Series
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The Pursuit of Happiness
1930 · Movie
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Grand Illusion
1937 · Movie
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The Emma Bovary Trial
2021 · Movie
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The Rules of the Game
1939 · Movie
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Louis Lumière
1968 · Movie
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The River
1951 · Movie
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BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Series
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French Cancan
1955 · Movie
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A Day in the Country
1946 · Movie
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Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
1969 · Movie
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D'un Céline l'autre
1969 · Movie
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La Chienne
1931 · Movie
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This Land Is Mine
1943 · Movie
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The Golden Coach
1952 · Movie
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The Lower Depths
1936 · Movie
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The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974 · Movie
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La Bête Humaine
1938 · Movie
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936 · Movie
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Un tournage à la campagne
1994 · Movie
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Toni
1935 · Movie
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Experiment in Evil
1960 · Movie
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Mam'zelle Nitouche
1931 · Movie
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Little Red Riding Hood
1930 · Movie
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Marquitta
1927 · Movie
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Boudu Saved from Drowning
1932 · Movie
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Carola
1973 · Movie
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The Little Match Girl
1928 · Movie
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La Marseillaise
1938 · Movie
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Movie
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Backbiters
1927 · Movie
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The Southerner
1945 · Movie
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The Elusive Corporal
1962 · Movie
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The Spanish Earth
1937 · Movie
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The Sad Sack
1928 · Movie
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Nana
1926 · Movie
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Picnic on the Grass
1959 · Movie
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Those of Our Land
1915 · Movie
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Whirlpool of Fate
1925 · Movie