Jean Renoir
Known for: Directing
Born: September 15, 1894
Died: February 12, 1979
Place of birth: Paris, 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.
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Filmography
70 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
6.6
The Emma Bovary Trial
2021
7.7
Le Parti du cinéma
2021
10.0
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017
5.8
François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014
5.0
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
2012
6.5
Un tournage à la campagne
1994
8.5
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993NR
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
1987
NR
Renoir, My Father
19789.0
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
6.8
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974
6.5
Carola
1973
4.8
The Christian Licorice Store
1971
5.3
Langlois
1970
5.0
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
1969
7.0
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
1969
7.0
D'un Céline l'autre
1969
7.2
Louis Lumière
1968
NR
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
1967
8.3
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1967
9.0
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
1967
6.4
The Elusive Corporal
1962
NR
Jean Renoir parle de son art
1961
6.7
Experiment in Evil
1960
6.3
Picnic on the Grass
1959
8.0
Discorama
1959
5.9
Elena and Her Men
1956
6.0
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
1956
8.7
Cinépanorama
1956
7.2
French Cancan
1955
7.1
The Golden Coach
1952
7.2
The River
1951
NR
The Ways of Love
1950
6.1
The Woman on the Beach
1947
7.3
A Day in the Country
1946
6.2
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946
6.6
The Southerner
1945
7.5
A Salute to France
1944
7.1
This Land Is Mine
1943
6.7
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
6.4
Swamp Water
1941
6.3
Tosca
1941
9.0
Cristobal's Gold
1940
7.5
The Rules of the Game
1939
7.1
La Bête Humaine
1938
6.8
La Marseillaise
1938
6.7
The Spanish Earth
1937
7.9
Grand Illusion
1937
7.2
The Lower Depths
1936
6.4
Life Is Ours
1936
7.1
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936
7.1
Toni
1935NR
A Bum Deal
1935
5.6
Madame Bovary
1934
6.3
Chotard and Co.
1933
6.9
Boudu Saved from Drowning
1932
6.5
Night at the Crossroads
1932
7.3
La Chienne
1931
7.0
Mam'zelle Nitouche
1931
5.7
Baby's Laxative
1931
8.0
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930
7.0
Little Red Riding Hood
1930
5.9
Le Bled
1929
4.7
The Tournament
1928
6.7
The Sad Sack
1928
6.9
The Little Match Girl
1928
6.8
Backbiters
1927
5.1
La P’tite Lili
1927
7.0
Marquitta
1927
6.0
Charleston Parade
1927
6.7
Nana
1926
6.6
Whirlpool of Fate
1925
6.8
Those of Our Land
1915