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Subgenre Sampler
Bete Humaine, La (1938)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux… - Adaptation of Zola's romantic tragedy brims with tension and exults the presense of French icon Jean Gabin as a hot–headed train driver coaxed…
I Accuse (J'Accuse) (1938)- Dir. Abel Gance
Feat. Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou - Dir. Gance’s own remake of his 1919 silent classic, in which a soldier traumatised by the slaughter of WWI attempts to prevent future…
Le Quai Des Brumes (Port of Shadows) (1938)- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michele Morgan - The forever anti–heroic Jean Gabin takes on an underworld of pimps and perverts in this gloomy French classic, a major influence on the film…
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…
Osaka Elegy (1936)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura - A counterpart to Mizoguchi's other 1936 film SISTERS OF THE GION, featuring some of the same cast and crew and again focusing on the hardships faced…
Sisters of the Gion (1936)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura - An early feminist film from director Kenji Mizoguchi, focusing on two geisha sisters – one of whom enters into a codependent relationship with…
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