Jean Renoir filmography

Jean Renoir (5 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French filmmaker and writer. He started out in French silent cinema before he established himself in the 1930s as one of the major exponents of poetic realism. During World War II he moved to the United States, where he made a few American films before he returned to European cinema in the 1950s.^[1]

Filmography

Renoir was involved in making the following films.^[2]

Director

Year	Original title	English title	Notes
1925	La fille de l'eau	The Whirlpool of Fate
1926	Nana
1927	Sur un air de Charleston	Charleston Parade
	Marquitta		presumed lost
	Catherine ou Une vie sans joie	Backbiters	co-directed with Albert Dieudonné in 1924, re-edited and released in 1927
1928	"La petite marchande d'allumettes"	"The Little Match Girl"
	Tire-au-flanc	The Sad Sack
	Le tournoi dans la cité	The Tournament
1929	Le Bled		final silent film
1931	On purge bébé		first sound film
	La Chienne	The Bitch
1932	La nuit de carrefour	Night at the Crossroads
	Boudu sauvé des eaux	Boudu Saved from Drowning
1933	Chotard et cie	Chotard and Company
1934	Madame Bovary
1935	Toni
1936	Le crime de Monsieur Lange	The Crime of Monsieur Lange
	Les Bas-fonds	The Lower Depths
1937	La grande illusion	Grand Illusion
1938	La Marseillaise
	La bête humaine
1939	La règle du jeu	The Rules of the Game
1941	Swamp Water		first American film
1943	This Land Is Mine
1945	The Southerner
	"Salute to France"		documentary
1946	The Diary of a Chambermaid
	Partie de campagne	"A Day in the Country"	shot in 1936
1947	The Woman on the Beach
1951	The River		final American film
1952	Le carrosse d'or	The Golden Coach
1955	French Cancan
1956	Elena et les hommes	Elena and Her Men
1959	Le Testament du docteur Cordelier	The Doctor's Horrible Experiment
	Le déjeuner sur l'herbe	Picnic on the Grass
1962	Le caporal épinglé	The Elusive Corporal
	"La scampagnata"	"The Picnic"	Segment in Il fiore e la violenza (The Flower and the Violence)
1970	Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir	The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

Other credits

• 1936: La vie est à nous (Life Belongs to Us, as leader of collective of directors, also acted)
• 1940: L'or du Cristobal (Cristobal's Gold, dialogue)