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Saturday, October 1, 2022

Le crime de Monsieur Lange AKA The crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) - classic French drama directed by Jean Renoir, starring René Lefèvre, Florelle and Jules Berry

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 80 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Jean Renoir
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027478/

Cast

René Lefèvre ... Amédée Lange
Florelle ... Valentine
Jules Berry ... Batala
Marcel Lévesque ... The Concierge
Odette Talazac ... The Concierge's Wife
Henri Guisol ... The Son Meunier
Maurice Baquet ... Charles, The Concierges' Son
Jacques B. Brunius ... Mr. Baigneur

Description: M. Lange is a mild-mannered writer of Western stories for a publishing company. Batala, the salacious owner of the company, flees his creditors. When his train crashes, he takes the opportunity to fake his own death. The abandoned workers, with the help of an eccentric creditor, form a cooperative. They have great success with Lange's stories about the cowboy, Arizona Jim, whose stories parallel the real-life experiences of the cooperative. At the same time, Lange and his neighbor Valentine, an old flame of Batala's, fall in love. When Batala resurfaces, intending to reclaim company, Lange shoots and kills him to protect the cooperative. Lange and Valentine flee the country, stopping at an inn near the Belgian frontier where Valentine tells Lange's story to a group of the inn's patrons who had recognized Lange as the murderer on the run and threatened to alert the police...

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Download link (torrent file):

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.38 GB, 4075 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 57 MB, 100 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

Subtitles (English, Spanish, French closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and English, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, French, Greek, Italian, German) posters and screenshots included

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Les bas-fonds AKA The lower depths (1936) - classic French drama directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet, Jany Holt and Vladimir Sokoloff

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Jean Renoir
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027336/

Cast

Jean Gabin ... Pepel Wasska
Suzy Prim ... Vassilissa Kostyleva
Louis Jouvet ... Le baron
Jany Holt ... Nastia
Vladimir Sokoloff ... Kostylev
Robert Le Vigan ... L'acteur alcoolique
Camille Bert ... Le comte
René Génin ... Louka - le philosophe

Description: Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostylev. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord’s wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel’s attempts at happiness are complicated when he’s accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/j8de02tv

Video and audio information:

Video : 2 GB, 3082 Kbps, 24 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 161
Audio : 66 MB, 99 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

Subtitles (English and French closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and English, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Turkish) posters and screenshots included

Sunday, December 13, 2020

La bete humaine AKA The human beast (1938) - classic crime movie directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin, Simone Simon and Fernand Ledoux

Rating 7./10
Runtime: 100 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Jean Renoir
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029557/

Cast

Jean Gabin ... Jacques Lantier
Simone Simon ... Séverine Roubaud
Fernand Ledoux ... Roubaud
Blanchette Brunoy ... Flore
Gérard Landry ... Le fils Dauvergne
Jenny Hélia ... Philomène Sauvagnat
Colette Régis ... Victoire Pecqueux
Claire Gérard ... Une voyageuse
Charlotte Clasis ... Tante Phasie, la marraine de Lantier

Description: Jacques Lantier is a train engineer who is prone to violent seizures, a condition he attributes to his forefathers' habit of excessive drinking. Roubaud is a train conductor on the same railroad that Lantier works on, married to the much younger Séverine. When Roubaud catches wind of his wife's affair with her godfather, the wealthy M. Grandmorin, he kills him during a train journey in a fit of jealousy. He makes sure that Séverine is also present, making her an accomplice to murder. Lantier, despite having witnessed them quite clearly in the train corridor, hides the fact during the investigation as he is attracted to Séverine. They both begin an affair, all the while Roubaud becomes increasingly withdrawn and starts to gamble. Séverine urges Lantier to kill her husband so that they would be free but she is unaware of Lantier's unfortunate condition...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/n6g7ifc0

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.29 GB, 3320 Kbps, 24 fps, 788x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 73 MB, 104 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Turkish, Italian) posters and screenshots included

Sunday, December 18, 2016

La grande illusion AKA The grand illusion (1937) - classic WWI-themed masterpiece from director Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio and Erich von Stroheim

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: French/German/English/Russian
Country: France
Directed by: Jean Renoir
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028950/

Cast

Jean Gabin ... Le lieutenant Maréchal
Dita Parlo ... Elsa
Pierre Fresnay ... Le captaine de Boeldieu
Erich von Stroheim ... Le captaine von Rauffenstein
Julien Carette ... Cartier - l'acteur
Georges Péclet ... Le serrurier
Werner Florian ... Le sergent Arthur
Jean Dasté ... L'instituteur
Marcel Dalio ... Le lieutenant Rosenthal

Description: 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...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/zsm76mq

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.25 GB, 1625 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 660x480 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 129
Audio : 203 MB, 250 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = FLAC, VBR

Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Greek, Italian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Serbian) posters and screenshots included

Saturday, May 16, 2009

The rules of the game aka La règle du jeu (1939) - Jean Renoir

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Jean Renoir
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/

Cast

Nora Gregor .... Christine de la Cheyniest (as Nora Grégor)
Paulette Dubost .... Lisette, sa camériste
Mila Parély .... Geneviève de Marras
Odette Talazac .... Madame de la Plante
Claire Gérard .... Madame de la Bruyère
Anne Mayen .... Jackie, nièce de Christine
Lise Elina .... Radio-Reporter (as Lise Élina)
Marcel Dalio .... Robert de la Cheyniest (as Dalio)

Description: Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s masterpiece The Rules of the Game ('La Règle du jeu') is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. At a weekend hunting party, amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests and are mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs. The refusal of one of the guests to play by society’s rules sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy. Poorly received upon its release in 1939, the film was severely re-edited, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II. Only in 1959 was the film fully reconstructed and embraced by audiences and critics who now see the film as a timeless representation of a vanishing way of life.

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