Best French Film 1930-1939
Seven best French films by year (1930-1939)
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- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsGaby MorlaySuzanne DelvéCamille BertNo mercy for a woman who has been living in sin for six years.Director: Maurice Tourneur
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsGaston ModotLya LysCaridad de LaberdesqueA surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.Director: Luis Bunuel
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsDita ParloGinette MaddieAndrée BrabantDenise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.Director: Julien Duvivier
- DirectorWilhelm ThieleMax de VaucorbeilStarsLilian HarveyHenri GaratRené LefèvreThree young friends working at a filling station all fall in love with the same woman.Simultaneously filmed French version of the German musical, Die Drei Von Der Tankstelle.French Version
Director: Wilhelm Thiele - DirectorAugusto GeninaStarsLouise BrooksGeorges CharliaAugusto BandiniLucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?Director: Augusto Genina
- DirectorRené ClairStarsAlbert PréjeanPola IlléryEdmond T. GrévilleAlbert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.Director: René Clair
Best French Film of the year 1930 - DirectorRaymond BernardStarsÉdith JéhannePaule AndralOlaf FjordEmperess Catherine II wants to get rid of Princess Elisabeth Tarakanova who is to replace her on the throne of Russia. She asks Prince Orloff to travel to Venice so he can seduce Elisabeth and bring her back to Russia. Orloff and Tarakanova fall in love.Director: Raymond Bernard
- DirectorRené ClairStarsRaymond CordyHenri MarchandRolla FranceSeeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.Director: René Clair
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsMichel SimonJanie MarèseGeorges FlamantMaurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship with him.Director: Jean Renoir
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsHarry BaurPaule AndralJackie MonnierDavid is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.Director: Julien Duvivier
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsGaby MorlayCharles VanelLine NoroTwo sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.Director: Raymond Bernard
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsRaimuPierre FresnayFernand CharpinMarius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.Director: Alexander Korda
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsHuguette DuflosKissa KouprineMaxime DesjardinsA professor's daughter is attacked in her sealed bedroom.Her fiance is suspected but a cub journalist finds the surprising culprit.Director: Marcel L'herbier
Release in France: 1931 - DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsRudolf ForsterLotte LenyaCarola NeherThe Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.French Version
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Best French Film of the year 1931 - DirectorRaymond BernardStarsPierre BlancharGabriel GabrioCharles VanelWorld War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.Director: Raymond Bernard
Best French Film of the year 1932 - DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsFritz KortnerAnna StenHanna WaagSimultaneously filmed French version of the German "Der Moerder Dimitri Karamassof": A son is accused of killing his father, whose young mistress he has also loved. Condemned for ten years, he is accompanied by the woman.Director: Fedor Ozep
Release in France: 1932 - DirectorJean RenoirStarsPierre RenoirGeorges TérofWinna WinifriedInspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen.Director: Jean Renoir
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsHarry BaurRobert LynenLouis GauthierA red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag ; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.Director: Julien Duvivier
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsAlexander GranachFritz KampersErnst BuschPlea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.French Version
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Release in France: 1932 - DirectorGeorge CukorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierJeanette MacDonaldGenevieve TobinAn unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.French Version
Director: Ernst Lubitsch - DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsJulian WestMaurice SchutzRena MandelA drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
- DirectorVictor TrivasStarsVladimir SokoloffMadeleine OzerayMarcelle WormsA gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right path after they are finally apprehended.Director: Victor Trivas
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsYvette GuilbertGabriel GabrioEmmy LynnA more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.Director: Maurice Tourneur
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsFeodor Chaliapin Sr.DorvilleRené DonnioThe French version of G.W.Pabst's monumental three-language (English, French and German - separate versions each) filming of Cervantes' classic novel. The German version seems to be lost, but it is spoken of in three books, "The Film Till Now", and two of Pauline Kael's books of movie criticism.Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsAntonin ArtaudWanda BarcellaGaston DuboscMelodrama in which a man, learning his wife has turned to her brother in law for romantic comfort, withdraws affection from his daughter, suspecting that she is not really his own.Director: Abel Gance