Subgenre Sampler
Marseillaise, La (1938)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Pierre Renoir, Lisa Delamare, Leon Larive… - Renoir's classic depicts events leading up to the French revolution in the 18th Century, electing to extract history from the heart of the common…
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim… - The heroics and hypocrasies of war are illustrated through an imprisoned French squadron in WW1 and their cultured German commandant. A hailed…
Pepe Le Moko (1937)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin - Jean Gabin plays a super–cool gangster who finds immunity in the Algierian Casbah. Marvellously romantic, this classic of the French golden age…
César (1936)- Dir. Marcel Pagnol
Feat. Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay… - Playwright Marcel Parcol takes over the director's reins himself for this concluding part of his Marseille trilogy, following 'Marius' and 'Fanny'.…
Jacques Tati Shorts (1936)- Dir. Jacques Tati
- Three rare short comedies for those that can't get enough of the French funnyman. Watch your Left! (1936), School for Postmen (1947), and Evening…
Une Partie de Campagne (A Day in the Country) (1936)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Sylvia Bataille - This evocative, unfinished short (originally part of a full–length feature) lovingly captures the flirtations of a young girl as she detours…
Le Crime De Monsieur Lange (1935)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Rene Lefevre, Florelle , Jules Berry - One of the dir.’s early classics. Rene Leferve rises to newsprint fame as the author of the serial “Arizona Jim” after his boss, a…
Goddess, The (Shen nu) (1934)- Dir. Wu Yonggang
Feat. Ruan Lingyu - One of the best–known films of China's cinematic golden age, with the legendarily tragic actress Ruan Lingyu playing an unnamed woman who lives…
L'Atalante (1934)- Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Michel Simon, Jean Daste - A recently restored master work from the French film archive combines lyrical romance with inspired touches of fantasy.
Ecstasy (1933)- Dir. Gustav Machety
Feat. Hedy Lamarr - Hedy Lamarr came to world attention in this 1932 film, playing a sexually–frustrated bride who goes on a fifteen minute nude romp in an alpine…
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