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And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None (1945) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez

Based on the classic novel by mystery author Agatha Christie that was later adapted as the Broadway hit Ten Little Indians , And Then There Were None begins with ten characters, each with a skeleton in his or her closet, on a remote island off the English coast. They soon realize that they have been brought there by an insane judge, who has tried ...

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I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch (1942) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, Cecil Kellaway

As she burns at the stake, a 17th century witch, Jennifer (Veronica Lake), places a curse on her accuser (Fredric March), so that from this day forward, all of his descendants (each played by him) will be unhappy in marriage. After several hilarious through-the-years examples (the Civil War-era Fredric March runs off to battle rather than endure ...

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Le million

Le million (1931) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Annabella, René Lefèvre, Constantin Stroesco, Louis Allibert, Paul Olivier, Odette Talazac

René Lefèvre and Annabella are sheer delights, as is everything else in Le Million, René Clair's bright and winning early sound comedy. Clair has his actors sing their dialogue in a blithe and breezy way and utilizes a succession of surrealistic and Dadaesque touches to chronicle this lighthearted extended chase, concerning an artist racing ...

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À Nous la Liberté

À Nous la Liberté (1931) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Rolla France, Paul Olivier, Jacques Shelly

À Nous la Liberté is an early talkie from French filmmaker René Clair. Louis (Raymond Cordy) and Emile (Henri Marchand) are a pair of convicts whose lives take decidely different paths after prison. Emile works his way up the ladder of capitalism, becoming a phonograph factory boss, a job that finds him overseeing a bleak outfit of automatous ...

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Under the Roofs of Paris

Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Albert Prejean, Pola Illery, Gaston Modot, Edmond T. Greville, Paul Olivier, Bill Bocket

Rene Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris is one of the first French films shot in sound. The film is a relaxed melodrama where a Parisian street singer (Albert Prejean) and his friend (Edmond Greville) pursue the love of the same woman (Pola Illery). Clair chose to use sound only when needed, preferring to tell the story through his visuals as well ...

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It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow (1944) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy, Edward S. Brophy

On the eve of their 50th anniversary, a couple argue about whether or not to reveal a story from the husband's past that explains how they met and came to be married. We flashback to the mid-1890's and Larry Stevens' (Dick Powell first day on the job as a reporter for a New York newspaper -- celebrating his release from writing obituaries with a ...

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The Ghost Goes West

The Ghost Goes West (1935) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester, Everley Gregg, Ralph Bunker

Wealthy American Joe Martin (Eugene Pallette) purchases an ancient Scottish castle and then has it dismantled and transferred to his Florida estate where he plans to reconstruct the castle brick by brick. Martin is unaware that his new acquisition comes equipped with an 18th-century ghost, played by Robert Donat. As the spectre, who feels as ...

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La Beauté du Diable

La Beauté du Diable (1950) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valere

La Beaute du Diable came into being when French filmmaker Rene Clair became fascinated with a structural defect in the "Faust" legend. Clair felt that the beginning and end of the story was perfect, but the middle section, wherein the title character blasphemes the Pope, was "silly." The director also wondered what would happen if, instead of ...

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Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day (1943) more movies like this

directed by Cedric Hardwicke, Edmund Goulding, Frank Lloyd, Herbert Wilcox, Kent Smith, René Clair, Robert Stevenson, Victor Saville
featuring Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Gladys Cooper, Ida Lupino, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young

The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator. The true star of the film is a stately old manor house in London, built in 1804 by a British ...

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Les Belles de Nuit

Les Belles de Nuit (1952) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida, Magali Vendeuil, Marilyn Buferd

Director René Clair insisted that his 1952 production Beauties of the Night (Les Belles du Nuit) was intended as a comic variation on Griffith's multipart Intolerance (1916). The Clair film deals with a disillusioned music teacher (Gérard Philipe) who dreams of the beautiful women of history, envisioning himself as the central male figure in each ...

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The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans (1941) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Anne Revere, Andy Devine, Mischa Auer

Acclaimed French filmmaker Rene Clair made his American debut with this period comedy/drama. Claire Ledeux (Marlene Dietrich) leaves her native France and arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1841, with one goal in mind: marrying a wealthy man. Posing as a pillar of society and a woman of means, Claire sets her sights on Charles Giraud (Roland ...

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Love and the Frenchwoman

Love and the Frenchwoman (1960) more movies like this

directed by Christian-Jaque, Henri Decoin, Henri Verneuil, Jean Delannoy, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Michel Boisrond, René Clair
featuring Marie-José Nat, Sylvia Montfort, Darry Cowl, Jacqueline Porel, Sophie Desmarets, Dany Robin, Paul Meurisse, Valerie Lagrange, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, François Perier, Martine Carol

Love and the Frenchwoman (La Francaise et L'Amour) concentrates on the nature of love by illustrating seven separate aspects of the emotion. In "Childhood," 9-year old Pierre-Jean Vaillard suffers a traumatic experience when he takes his parents' "cabbage patch" theory of conception too literally. In "Adolescence," a little girl (Annie Sinigalla) ...

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Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie (1927) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Marise Maia, Olga Tschechowa, Albert Prejean, Jim Gérald, Paul Olivier, Alex Allin

Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel's effervescent French farce An Italian Straw Hat was gracefully adapted for the screen by director René Clair. Albert Prejean plays a well-meaning fellow who is on the way to his wedding. While en route, Prejean's horse has the bad manners to eat the expensive hat of a lovely young woman. The girl is beside herself, ...

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