Jean Renoir

Organized mostly chronologically, the film presents the 40-year career of Henri Langlois (1914-1977), film's first archivist, and the creator of the Cin math que Fran aise and Mus e du Cin ma. Talking heads, film clips and stills, and archival interviews with Langlois trace his life from 1935, when he starts the Circle of Cinema film club. He begins to buy films, saving many from destruction. During World War II, he finds places to hide them. By mid-1944, the Cin math que has 50,000 films. He runs afoul of bureaucrats, but the New Wave comes to his defense. The museum opens in 1972. The film celebrates his philosophy and beliefs, personality and dedication, and his vision. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois (Charles Granval). The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

A French adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but with the names of the characters changed. Instead of Jekyll, it is Dr. Cordelier who transforms himself into Mr. Opale. Directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean-Louis Barrault in the dual role. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

Polish countess Elena falls in love to a Frensh radical party's candidate, a general, in pre world war I Paris, but another officer pines for her. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

This comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

A small town of Central America in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. The Vice King gives her his magnificent golden coach. A young Spanish officer suggests the two of them settle down together among Indians. Ramon, a torero, offers her a share of his glory. Director: Jean Renoir Writers: Jean Renoir (story), Jack Kirkland (story), and 4 more credits >> Stars: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro and Nada Fiorelli Loading Watchlist View Watchlist >> New List Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

Three adolescent girls growing up in Bengal, India, learn their lessons in life after falling for an older American soldier. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers? Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

A mild-mannered schoolteacher in a Germen occupied town during WWII finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

The story centers on a train engineer Jacques Lantier (Jean Gabin) who lusts after Severine Roubaud (Simone Simon), the wife of his co-worker Roubaud (Fernand Ledoux). Roubaud discovers that his young wife, Severine, has been seduced by her godfather, the wealthy Grandmorin. Jealous, Roubaud forces Severine to assist in the murder of Grandmorin during a train journey. The murder is witnessed by a railway worker, Jacques Lantier, but he keeps quiet because he is in love with Severine. Disgusted by what her husband has done, Severine has an affair with Lantier and pleads with him to kill her cruel husband. Little does she know that Lantier also has a dark secret. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

Aviator Andr Jurieux has just completed a record-setting flight, but when he is greeted by an admiring crowd, all he can say to them is how miserable he is that the woman he loves did not come to meet him. He is in love with Christine, the wife of aristocrat Robert de la Cheyniest. Robert himself is involved in an affair with Genevi ve de Marras, but he is trying to break it off. Meanwhile, Andr seeks help from his old friend Octave, who gets Andr an invitation to the country home where Robert and Christine are hosting a large hunting party. As the guests arrive for the party, their cordial greetings hide their real feelings, along with their secrets - and even some of the servants are involved in tangled relationships. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

Another project inspired by the success of the brief Popular Front government, LA MARSEILLAISE stars Pierre Renoir as Louis XVI. Told from the point of view of the common people, Jean Renoir's film traces the progress of the French Revolution from the fall of the Bastille to the king's abandonment of his palace in 1792. As news of the storming of the Bastille ripples into the countryside, the peasantry gain the courage to resist injustice. Outlawed by the regime, Jean-Joseph Bomier (Edmond Ardisson) realizes that he may now be able to return to society. Angry that town forts are still commanded by aristocrats, revolutionaries use the Trojan Horse technique to seize the fort at Marseilles. On the Austrian border, the revolutionaries try to raise troops to face the formidable Prussian army outside Paris, and Bomier joins the ragged army as it heads north. While on leave in Paris, he falls in love with Louison (Nadia Sibirskaia), and the couple is able to envision the political satire that widens the gulf between the king and his people. This stirring, realistic film is beautifully photographed and wonderfully acted. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

In Renoir's lightened adaptation of Maxim Gorky's play, a thief and a destitute Baron form a friendship as the inhabitants of a Parisian slum go about their lives. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

La grande illusion: During 1st WW, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escape. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape.. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend Valentine tells the whole story : Lange was an employee in Batala's little printing works. Batala was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers of Valentine's laundry... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. But the plot is less important that the description of the atmosphere just before the Popular Front. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

On a cold New Year's Eve, a poor girl tries to sell matches in the street. She is freezing badly, but she is afraid to go home because her father will beat her for not selling any matches. She takes shelter in a nook and lights the matches to warm herself. In their glow, she sees several lovely visions including a Christmas tree and a holiday feast. The girl looks skyward, sees a shooting star, and remembers her deceased grandmother saying that such a falling star means someone died and is going into Heaven. As she lights her next match, she sees a vision of her grandmother, the only person to have treated her with love and kindness. She strikes one match after another to keep the vision of her grandmother nearby for as long as she can. The child dies and her grandmother carries her soul to Heaven. The next morning, passers-by find the dead child in the nook. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.