Directed by René Clair • 1944 • United States
Starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie

One of a handful of films French director René Clair made in Hollywood, this delightful period comedy displays the elegant mix of fantasy and whimsy that so often graced his work. When he miraculously b...

Directed by René Clair • 1942 • United States
Starring Veronica Lake, Fredric March, Susan Hayward

Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her ...

Directed by René Clair • 1930 • France

In Renè Clair's irrepressibly romantic portrait of the crowded tenements of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman. This witty exploration of love and human foibles, told primarily through song, captures the flambo...

Directed by René Clair • 1931 • France

One of the all-time comedy classics, René Clair's À Nous La Liberté tells the story of Louis, an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately, his past returns (in the form of old jail pal Emile) to upset his carefully laid plans. Feat...

Directed by René Clair • 1931 • France
Starring Annabella, René Lefèvre, Louis Allibert

An impoverished artist discovers he has purchased a winning lottery ticket at the very moment his creditors come to collect. The only problem is, the ticket is in the pocket of his coat. . . which he left at ...

Directed by René Clair • 1955 • France

Les Grandes Manoeuvres is a wonderfully autumnal work from Rene Clair -- it was also his first film in color, and he uses the production design and the story, coupled with the range of available hues to impart a dreamlike quality to plot, a romantic escapad...

Directed by René Clair • 1935 • United Kingdom
Starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette

An old-world ghost gets a taste of new-world values in this sly supernatural satire. When an ancient Scottish castle is taken down and moved to Florida to be rebuilt brick by brick, the new America...

Directed by René Clair • 1924 • France

One of the seminal films of the surrealist art movement, ENTR’ACTE (1924) brought together three of the great French artists of its time: Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, and René Clair. Presented in two parts as the introduction and intermission of a ballet, E...

Directed by René Clair • 1924 • France
Starring Charles Martinelli, Louis Pré Fils, Albert Préjean

PARIS QUI DORT represented a delightfully entertaining feature debut for the young René Clair. Also known as THE CRAZY RAY, Clair’s 1924 film humorously combines the new art of the cinema with othe...

PARIS QUI DORT represented a delightfully entertaining feature debut for the young René Clair. Also known as THE CRAZY RAY, Clair's 1924 film humorously combines the new art of the cinema with other modern symbols: the airplane and the Eiffel Tower. Again, Clair re-edited the film in the '50s to ...

Directed by René Clair • 1928 • France
Starring Pierre Batcheff, Jim Gérald, Véra Flory

Director René Clair’s last silent feature, adapted from another Eugène Labiche play, is one his finest comic adventures. Young lawyer Fremissin (Pierre Batcheff) must overcome his debilitating meekness in ord...

Directed by René Clair • 1928 • France
Starring Albert Préjean, Geymond Vital, Olga Chekhova

En route to his wedding, Fadinard (Albert Préjean) parks alongside a country lane, where his horse chews on the hat of a married woman (Olga Chekhova) engaging in a tryst with a solemn, decorated lieuten...

Directed by René Clair • 1933 • France
Starring Annabella, George Riguad, Raymond Cordy

On a particularly festive Bastille Day in the City of Light, flower seller Anna (Annabella) and hack driver Jean (George Rigaud) fall in love, and all seems right with the world—until a seductive former girlf...