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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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  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...

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  Zéro de conduite

  Zéro de conduite

  Directed by Jean Vigo • 1933 • France
  Starring Jean Dasté, Gérard de Bédarieux, Louis Lefebvre

  So effervescent and charming that one can easily forget its importance in film history, Jean Vigo’s enormously influential portrait of prankish boarding-school students is one of cinema’s great acts of...