The films of
Gaston Modot
Monte Cristo (1929)
Henri Fescourt 		  L'Âge d'or (1930)
Luis Buñuel 		  Sous les toits de Paris (1930)
René Clair 		 
     
The last of the great super-productions of the silent era, Henri Fescourt’s Monte Cristo is easily one of cinema’s best, if not the best...  [More...]   After their first collaboration on Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali attempted to make an equally daring film in which surrealism and anti-bourgeois sentiment are combined to shocking effect...  [More...]   In common with many of his contemporaries of the late 1920s, director René Clair was apprehensive over the transition from silent to sound cinema...  [More...]  
Quatorze Juillet (1933)
René Clair 		  La Bandera (1935)
Julien Duvivier 		  La Vie est à nous (1936)
Jacques Becker 		 
     
René Clair has been described as the most quintessentially French of France’s great film directors, and nowhere is this more apparent than in his poetic elegy to young romance...  [More...]   La Bandera is one of Julien Duvivier’s most memorable films, providing a satisfying and early example of poetic realism, albeit in a setting far removed from contemporary France...  [More...]   Made in February and March of 1936 by a team of French Communist Party activists and sympathetic film technicians, La Vie est à nous is a bold and effective piece of party propaganda...  [More...]  
La Grande illusion (1937)
Jean Renoir 		  Pépé le Moko (1937)
Julien Duvivier 		  La Marseillaise (1938)
Jean Renoir 		 
     
One of the undisputed masterpieces of cinema history, La Grande illusion is a film of enduring popularity and one of the most powerful anti-war films of the Twentieth century...  [More...]   An undisputed classic of French cinema, Pépé le Moko combines poetic realism with gangster thriller, making this one of the earliest and best examples of the French film noir genre...  [More...]   The only one of Renoir’s films that can truly be described as epic, La Marseillaise succeeds as both an accurate historical account of an important part of French history and as a reflection of the mood of the...  [More...]  
La Fin du jour (1939)
Julien Duvivier 		  La Règle du jeu (1939)
Jean Renoir 		  Dernier atout (1942)
Jacques Becker 		 
     
This is a very sombre film which offers an uncompromising depiction of the humiliation and bitterness that accompanies the end of an actor’s life...  [More...]   One of the undisputed all time classics of French cinema, La Règle du Jeu is also widely regarded as Jean Renoir’s best film, a sublime masterpiece of filmmaking technique and satirical verve...  [More...]   Jacques Becker’s first film is a rather obvious attempt to emulate the American gangster movie / film noir genre. It is, for all that, an impressive début for the man who is most often credited for popularising...  [More...]  
L'Homme de Londres (1943)
Henri Decoin 		  Les Enfants du paradis (1945)
Marcel Carné 		  Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
Jacques Becker 		 
     
 [More...]   Often rated as the greatest film ever made, and certainly a major triumph of French cinema, Les Enfants du paradis offers us a timeless tale of unrequited love...  [More...]   In this, one of his most highly rated films, Jacques Becker uses the plot of René Clair’s 1931 musical farce, Le Million, as a pretext for an intimate portrait of working class life in France...  [More...]  

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