French cinema: 1936
Les Bas-fonds (1936)
Jean Renoir
Having been dismissed from his official post for embezzlement, a baron gambles away the last of his fortune at the card table...
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Jean Renoir
La Belle équipe (1936)
Julien Duvivier
France, 1936, Jean, Charles, Mario, Raymond and Jacques are five unemployed friends who are desperately looking for work and live in a squalid Parisian apartment block...
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Julien Duvivier
César (1936)
Marcel Pagnol
Twenty years after her first sweetheart Marius abandoned her to seek adventure on the high seas, Fanny is still married to Panisse and her son Césariot remains ignorant as to the identity of his real father...
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Marcel Pagnol
Club de femmes (1936)
Jacques Deval
A women-only boarding house in Paris provides an affordable sanctuary for impressionable young woman who wish to be protected from the corrupting influence of the male sex...
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Jacques Deval
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
Jean Renoir
Amedée Lange is a modest employee at Monsieur Batala's publishing house, which is teetering on the brink of ruin. In a last ditch attempt to stave of his creditors, Batala decides to publish Lange's fanciful Wild West stories, altering the text to promote the products of his sponsors, such as Ranimax Pills...
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Jean Renoir
Le Golem (1936)
Julien Duvivier
In the early years of the 17th century, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II rules Bohemia with an iron grip whilst pursuing the alchemists' dream of endowing inanimate matter with life... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In the early years of the 17th century, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II rules Bohemia with an iron grip whilst pursuing the alchemists' dream of endowing inanimate matter with life... [More...]
Mademoiselle ma mère (1936)
Henri Decoin
In her search for the perfect husband, Jacqueline Vignolle is slowly driving her parents to distraction. After fourteen failed engagements, Jacqueline still hasn't found her beau idéal, and so she decides to marry the next eligible man she meets... [More...]
Henri Decoin
In her search for the perfect husband, Jacqueline Vignolle is slowly driving her parents to distraction. After fourteen failed engagements, Jacqueline still hasn't found her beau idéal, and so she decides to marry the next eligible man she meets... [More...]
Mayerling (1936)
Anatole Litvak
In the late 1880s, Archduke Rudolph is the crown prince of Austria, a rebellious young man who prefers the company of ordinary folk to that of the nobility... [More...]
Anatole Litvak
In the late 1880s, Archduke Rudolph is the crown prince of Austria, a rebellious young man who prefers the company of ordinary folk to that of the nobility... [More...]
Partie de campagne (1936)
Jean Renoir
In the summer of 1860, Monsieur Dufour, a successful Parisian shopkeeper, decides to spend a day in the country, in the company of his mother-in-law, his wife Juliette, his daughter Henriette and his future son-in-law Anatole... [More...]
Jean Renoir
In the summer of 1860, Monsieur Dufour, a successful Parisian shopkeeper, decides to spend a day in the country, in the company of his mother-in-law, his wife Juliette, his daughter Henriette and his future son-in-law Anatole... [More...]
Le Roman d'un tricheur (1936)
Sacha Guitry
A man in his mid-fifties sits alone in a café writing his memoirs which he intends titling The Story of a Cheat. His tale begins when, at the age of 12, he is denied a meal of tasty mushrooms as a punishment for stealing money from the till of his family's grocery shop... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
A man in his mid-fifties sits alone in a café writing his memoirs which he intends titling The Story of a Cheat. His tale begins when, at the age of 12, he is denied a meal of tasty mushrooms as a punishment for stealing money from the till of his family's grocery shop... [More...]
Sous les yeux d'occident (1936)
Marc Allégret
In Russia during the early 1900s, Razumov is a brilliant student with a dazzling career ahead of him. He has no interest in politics and is unmoved when he learns that the Prime Minister has just been shot dead... [More...]
Marc Allégret
In Russia during the early 1900s, Razumov is a brilliant student with a dazzling career ahead of him. He has no interest in politics and is unmoved when he learns that the Prime Minister has just been shot dead... [More...]
Topaze (1936)
Marcel Pagnol
A modest teacher in a boys' school, Topaze does his utmost to instil in his pupils his creed that money can never buy happiness... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
A modest teacher in a boys' school, Topaze does his utmost to instil in his pupils his creed that money can never buy happiness... [More...]
Un de la légion (1936)
Christian-Jaque
Fernand Espitalion is a timid man who quietly accepts the humiliations heaped on him by his domineering wife Antoinette. Theirs is a marriage of convenience not mutual tenderness... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Fernand Espitalion is a timid man who quietly accepts the humiliations heaped on him by his domineering wife Antoinette. Theirs is a marriage of convenience not mutual tenderness... [More...]
Un grand amour de Beethoven (1936)
Abel Gance
The composer Ludwig van Beethoven is passionately in love with Juliette Guicciardi, but his love is not requited. She chooses instead to marry the Count Gallenberg, news which, along with his encroaching deafness, propels Beethoven into a state of depression... [More...]
Abel Gance
The composer Ludwig van Beethoven is passionately in love with Juliette Guicciardi, but his love is not requited. She chooses instead to marry the Count Gallenberg, news which, along with his encroaching deafness, propels Beethoven into a state of depression... [More...]