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1. Reflets de Cannes (1952– )
Documentary
The first show of the French television about movies; the only one dedicated to the Cannes Film Festival. Features interviews and backstage footage devoted to the event, the gala evenings, the competing films, and everyday life in Cannes.
Stars: François Chalais, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Achard, Michèle Morgan
Votes: 135
2. Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (1974– )
Documentary
Stars: Armand Panigel, Christian-Jaque, Marcel Carné, Marcel L'Herbier
Votes: 22
3. Monsieur Cinéma (1967–1980)
Stars: Pierre Tchernia, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Stéphane Audran
Votes: 11
4. Cinéastes de notre temps (1964–1972)
Documentary
In-depth documentaries about the greatest filmmakers from around the world, all in the form of candid face-to-face interviews, conducted, created and produced by former critics for Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe.
Stars: André S. Labarthe, Georges Franju, Jean Renoir, Jacques Rivette
Votes: 94
5. Au théâtre ce soir (1966–1990)
Comedy
Stars: Edward Sanderson, Bernard Durand, Robert Manuel, Jacques Ardouin
Votes: 71
6. Camera Three (1955–1980)
30 min | Drama
A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini
Votes: 63
7. And Then There Were None (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young
Votes: 16,651
8. À Nous la Liberté (1931)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Musical
Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier
Votes: 4,968
9. Le Million (1931)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Musical
An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert, Paul Ollivier
Votes: 3,844
10. Beauty and the Devil (1950)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valère
Votes: 1,815
11. Entr'acte (1924)
22 min | Short
An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp
Votes: 4,198
12.
Cinéastes de notre temps (1964–1972)
Episode:
Erich von Stroheim
(1965)
90 min | Documentary
By the time the French tv series on great directors began,Stroheim was deceased so couldn't be part of a regular interview format.Nevertheless the filmmaker tries to unravel the enigmatic personality and separate the man from the myth.
Director: Robert Valey | Stars: Michel Arnaud, Jean Boyer, Louis Chavance, René Clair
Votes: 10
13. Le grand échiquier (1972– )
Music
Artists from different backgrounds reveal themselves in a new angle and we discover those who make them dream and inspire.
Stars: Jacques Chancel, Pierre Rabbath, Raymond Devos, Juliette Gréco
Votes: 33
14. Cinépanorama (1956–1966)
Documentary
Stars: François Chalais, France Roche, Yves Montand, Martine Carol
Votes: 63
15. En compagnie de Max Linder (1963)
88 min | Comedy
Pioneering comedy legend Max Linder wrote, produced, directed and starred in Seven Years Bad Luck. Hilarious misadventures begin when Max' butler, chasing a maid, breaks an expensive ... See full summary »
Director: Maud Linder | Stars: René Clair, Max Linder
Votes: 67
16. I Married a Witch (1942)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward
Votes: 9,530 | Gross: $0.31M
17. Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry, Edmond T. Gréville, Bill Bocket
Votes: 2,491
18. At 3:25 (1925)
Unrated | 59 min | Sci-Fi
A scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Charles Martinelli, Louis Pré Fils, Albert Préjean, Madeleine Rodrigue
Votes: 1,973
19. The Gates of Paris (1957)
106 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An old bum becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl who gets entangled with a young gangster.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel
Votes: 760
20. The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Documentary
A compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films.
Director: Robert Youngson | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard
Votes: 494
21. Man About Town (1947)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
1910. A friend leaves his daughter, Madeleine, with Emile a French film producer. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his young friend Jacques returns from military service ... See full summary »
Director: René Clair | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien, Dany Robin
Votes: 582
22. It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 2,860
23. July 14 (1933)
86 min | Comedy, Romance
Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to the bal. Many events (Pola's come back,... See full summary »
Director: René Clair | Stars: Annabella, Jorge Rigaud, Raymond Cordy, Paul Ollivier
Votes: 474
24. Forever and a Day (1943)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, History
During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is ... See full summary »
Directors: Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox, René Clair | Stars: George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty, Connie Leon
Votes: 794
25. Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) (1930)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently ... See full summary »
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini, André Nicolle
Votes: 669
26. Beauties of the Night (1952)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music
A young composer has vivid dreams of the past that reflect, yet conflict with his waking life.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida, Magali Vendeuil
Votes: 809
27. The Horse Ate the Hat (1928)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy
On his way through the woods to his marriage, Fadinard's horse eats the hat of a married lady spending here a few moments with her lover. Fadinard has to find the very same rare hat to ... See full summary »
Director: René Clair | Stars: Alice Tissot, Alexej Bondireff, Marise Maia, Yvonneck
Votes: 929
28. Two Timid Souls (1928)
87 min | Comedy
Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very efficient... Two years after, Garadoux is trying to seduce Cecile, but she prefers Fremissin...
Director: René Clair | Stars: Pierre Batcheff, Jim Gérald, Véra Flory, Maurice de Féraudy
Votes: 223
29. To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.
Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Kaige Chen, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Tsai Ming-liang, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raúl Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Kar-Wai Wong, Yimou Zhang | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Pegah Ahangarani, Anouk Aimée, Leonid Alexeenko
Votes: 5,459
30. Dieu a choisi Paris (1969)
90 min | Drama
This is NOT a documentary. It's much more. A very interesting mixture of filmed scenes with J-P Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting ... See full summary »
Directors: Philippe Arthuys, Gilbert Prouteau | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Achard, Amarande, Guillaume Apollinaire
Votes: 41
31. Midi Trente (1972–1975)
30 min | Music
Stars: Danièle Gilbert, Gaston Michel Cassez, Pierre Perret, Annie Cordy
Votes: 8
32. La proie du vent (1927)
90 min | Drama, Romance
An early aviator crash lands in a remote European country where he falls in love with a beautiful woman.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Sandra Milovanoff, Lillian Hall-Davis, Jean Murat, Jim Gérald
Votes: 131
33. Les fables de La Fontaine (1966– )
26 min
Stars: Eduard Marks, Michel Serrault, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paulette Arnoux
Votes: 14
34. The Ghost Goes West (1935)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A haunted Scottish castle is dismantled and transported to Florida, bringing the family ghost along with it.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 2,125
35. The Grand Maneuver (1955)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A French lieutenant makes a bet that he can seduce any woman in town in the two weeks before his regiment leaves for maneuvers, but his chosen target (a Parisian divorcée) isn't like other girls he's known.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Jean Desailly, Pierre Dux
Votes: 1,115
36. La tour (1928)
Not Rated | 14 min | Documentary, Short
The great French filmmaker René Clair crafted this elegant sepia-toned profile of Paris's iconic landmark almost forty years after the Eiffel Tower took its first bow (at the 1889 ... See full summary »
Director: René Clair
Votes: 209
37. Le voyage imaginaire (1926)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In a daydream, a shy bank clerk is led by a fairy into a subterranean world where people transform into animals and waxworks come to life. Lucie, his office crush, follows him but a bad fairy is intent on keeping them apart.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Dolly Davis, Jean Börlin, Albert Préjean, Jim Gérald
Votes: 258
38. Gariban (1966)
Drama
Director: Aram Gülyüz | Stars: Sadri Alisik, Orhan Günsiray, Esen Püsküllü, Ergun Köknar
Votes: 24
39. Fire Over England (1937)
92 min | Adventure, History, Romance
During the reign of Elizabeth I, a young man's fervent devotion to the crown and to his sweetheart, a lady-in-waiting, lead him to battle for England's victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Vivien Leigh, Raymond Massey
Votes: 1,981
40. The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer
Votes: 1,302
41. La légende de soeur Béatrix (1923)
Young novice Beatrice left the veil to follow a childhood friend. A happy life awaits her, but the count abandons her for the beautiful Nilidor. Desperate, she then leads a life of debauchery, and one day she returns to the convent.
Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Sandra Milovanoff, Suzanne Bianchetti, Eric Barclay, Jeanne Brindeau
Votes: 12
42. Break the News (1938)
72 min | Comedy, Musical
Two small-time song-and-dance men come up with what they believe is a surefire publicity stunt, guaranteed to keep their names in the public eye: One of them will "disappear" in what looks ... See full summary »
Director: René Clair | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Maurice Chevalier, June Knight, Marta Labarr
Votes: 54
43. Parisette (1921)
380 min | Drama
A cine-roman following the fates of a Portuguese nobleman, a Carmelite nun, and a mysterious lookalike.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Sandra Milovanoff, Georges Biscot, Fernand Herrmann, Édouard Mathé
Votes: 25
44. Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (1925)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy
A man goes to the lonely estate of the mysterious Dr. Renault, whose strange experiments release the man's spirit from his body.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Georges Vaultier, José Davert, Sandra Milovanoff, Albert Préjean
Votes: 228
45. À la recherche de Jean Grémillon (1969)
96 min | Documentary
Documentary investigation of a classic French film director features interviews with some of those who knew him.
Director: Solange Peter | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Pierre Brasseur, René Clair, Henri Langlois
Votes: 10
46. Round the Film Studios (1937– )
220 min | Family
Stars: Louis Levy, Maurice Chevalier, John Paddy Carstairs, Jessie Matthews
Votes: 10
47. Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
143 min | Comedy
The seven stages of woman - seven stories about French women and love in the sixties.
Directors: Michel Boisrond, Christian-Jaque, René Clair, Henri Decoin, Jean Delannoy, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jacqueline Porel, Pierre-Jean Vaillard, Darry Cowl, Micheline Dax
Votes: 225
48. Tout l'or du monde (1961)
90 min | Comedy
Businessman Victor Hardy (Noiret) wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the... See full summary »
Director: René Clair | Stars: Bourvil, Alfred Adam, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich
Votes: 416
49. Le dernier milliardaire (1934)
90 min | Comedy
A satirical view of the problems of capitalism - a small state on the brink of bankruptcy invites a foreign billionaire to rule, who soon becomes an insane dictator.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Max Dearly, Sinoël, Paul Ollivier, Marthe Mellot
Votes: 233
50. Loving Glances (2003)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Swan is a lonely Serbian refugee in Belgrade. He hopes for a visa to follow his long-lost fiancée to Chicago, but winds up at the Happy Millennium dating agency. A warm romantic comedy with a twist.
Director: Srdjan Karanovic | Stars: Senad Alihodzic, Ivana Bolanca, Jelena Djokic, Milena Dravic
Votes: 303