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  The Crime of Monsieur Lange

  The Crime of Monsieur Lange

  Directed by Jean Renoir • 1936 • France
  Starring René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry

  An oft-overlooked jewel from Jean Renoir, this exuberant ode to working-class solidarity is both one of the director’s most thoroughly charming works as well as one of his most sly political statements. Channeli...

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  Port of Shadows

  Port of Shadows

  Directed by Marcel Carné • 1938 • France
  Starring Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon

  Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of...

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  Le jour se lève

  Le jour se lève

  Directed by Marcel Carné • 1939 • France
  Starring Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty

  One of the defining works of 1930s poetic-realist cinema, the fourth collaboration between director Marcel Carné and screenwriter and poet Jacques Prévert is a gripping story of obsessive sexuality and murder star...