À nous la liberté (1931)
René Clair

Émile is serving a stretch in prison when he strikes up a friendship with fellow prisoner Louis. Together, the two men attempt a break-out which results in Émile's re-capture...   [More...]

Les Amours de minuit (1931)
Augusto Genina

Marcel and Gaston are two men who are on the run, although when they meet on a train bound for a seaport they do their best to conceal the fact...   [More...]

La Chienne (1931)
Jean Renoir

Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting...   [More...]

Jean de la Lune (1931)
Jean Choux

Jeff is a poet and dreamer, nicknamed 'Jean de la lune' because of his child-like innocence. He is madly in love with Marceline and marries her, completely unaware of her wayward nature which compels her to chase after any man that catches her eye...   [More...]

Kameradschaft (1931)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst

During the Great Depression, France and Germany are both beset with high unemployment. In a French border town, unemployed German miners are turned away when they try to find work in a French mine...   [More...]

Marius (1931)
Alexander Korda

César is the owner of a café in the French port of Marseilles, which he runs with his twenty-year-old son Marius...   [More...]

Le Million (1931)
René Clair

A penniless artist, Michel, is pursued by creditors when he discovers he has won the million florin lottery. He realises that he left the winning lottery ticket in his jacket, which he gave to his girlfriend, Béatrice, to repair...   [More...]

Mor vran (1931)
Jean Epstein

For those who eke out an existence on Sein, one of the smaller islands in the Breton archipelago, life is unremittingly hard...   [More...]

Taris, roi de l'eau (1931)
Jean Vigo

French swimming champion Jean Taris is the subject of this short documentary, an early commission for the film director Jean Vigo after he completed his innovative first documentary À propos de Nice in 1930...   [More...]