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René Clair

René Clair

French filmmaker and writer
November 11, 1898 (March 15, 1981)
Fr. 1965. Comedy by René Clair with Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Avron, Jean Richard. In order to allow the marriage between two lovers and stop the war, a brigadier crosses enemy lines to bring back the fianc
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1961. Comedy by René Clair with Bourvil, Philippe Noiret, Annie Fratellini. Speculators who want to buy up all the property in a small village to turn it into a residential estate come up against a stubborn old farmer who refuses to sell his farm.
Runtime: 90 min.

Love and the Frenchwoman

V.O.: La Française et l'amour
Fr. 1960. Sketches by Henri Decoin, Jean Delannoy, Michel Boisrond, René Clair, Henri Verneuil, Christian-Jaque, Jean-Paul Le Chanois with Jacqueline Porel, Darry Cowl, Noël Roquevert. Various aspects of the love life of the French woman.
Runtime: 135 min.

Gates of Paris

V.O.: Porte des lilas
Fr. 1957. Dramatic comedy by René Clair with Pierre Brasseur, Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel. For a few days, a poor man shelters a bandit being hunted by the police.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1955. Dramatic comedy by René Clair with Gérard Philipe, Michèle Morgan, Jean Desailly. A dragoons lieutenant bets that he can seduce, in fifteen days, the woman that fate would designate.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1952. Fantasy comedy by René Clair with Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida. The musings of a poor young musician.
Runtime: 83 min.

Beauty and the Devil

V.O.: La Beauté du diable
Fr. 1949. Fantasy by René Clair with Gérard Philipe, Michel Simon, Nicole Besnard. A disillusioned scientist sells his soul to the devil in exchange for youth, fame and wealth.
Runtime: 96 min.
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Fr. 1947. Comedy by René Clair with Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien. A fifty-something man teaches a young man the art of seduction.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1945. Thriller by René Clair with Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, Walter Huston. Ten people, gathered at a place that is cut off from everything, are killed one after the other by a mysterious assassin.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1944. Comedy by René Clair with Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie. A journalist receives the next day's news from a ghost.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1943. Sketches by René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox with Brian Aherne, Gladys Cooper, Donald Crisp. The story of a London home that was built in 1804 and destroyed during the Second World War.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1943. Fantasy comedy by René Clair with Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Cecil Kellaway. A sorcerer and his daughter are reincarnated to take revenge on the descendant of their executioner.
Runtime: 76 min.
U.S. 1941. Sentimental comedy by René Clair with Marlene Dietrich, Roland Young, Bruce Cabot.
Runtime: 79 min.
G.-B. 1935. Fantasy comedy by René Clair with Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1933. Sentimental comedy by René Clair with Annabella, Georges Rigaud, Raymond Cordy.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1931. Fantasy comedy by René Clair with René Lefèvre, Annabella, Paul Ollivier.
Runtime: 80 min.
Runtime: 84 min.

Under the Roofs of Paris

V.O.: Sous les toits de Paris
Fr. 1930. Sentimental comedy by René Clair with Albert Préjean, Pola Illery, Gaston Modot.
Runtime: 92 min.

Miss Europe

V.O.: Prix de beauté
Runtime: 93 min.
Runtime: 62 min.

An Italian Straw Hat

V.O.: Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie
Runtime: 114 min.

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