 French Cancan 1955  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Only the French Can
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Jean Gabin, Maria Felix, Francoise Arnoul, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Giani Esposito, Anna Amendola, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Clay, Jean Paredes, Lydia Johnson, Max Dalban, Jacques Jouanneau
An 1890's theater producer turns Nini (Francoise Arnoul) into a star when he revives the French dance, the Cancan, at the opening of the Moulin Rouge. Overnight, the dance, dancers, and the Moulin Rouge become sensations.
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La Chienne 1931  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: The Bitch
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Michel Simon, Janie Mareze, Georges Flamant, Magdeleine Berubet, Roger Gaillard, Jean Gehret, Alexandre Rignault, Lucien Mancini, Romain Bouquet, Max Dalban, Courme, Pierre Destys, Henri Guisol, Sylvain Itkine, Jane Pierson
Painfully shy Maurice Legrand (Michel Simon) paints pictures as an escape from his miserable home life with his nagging wife, Adele (Magdeleine Berubet). One night, he meets Lulu (Janie Mareze) and becomes her lover, but Lulu is really a manipulative prostitute working for her pimp, Dede (Georges Flamant). Together, Lulu and Dede contrive to sell Maurice's paintings for their own financial benefit. Finally, Maurice lashes out and kills Lulu. Police question him but believe he does not fit the pattern of a murderer. In an intriguing twist, it is Dede who is charged with, and convicted of, Lulu's murder.
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| 1. French Cancan (1955)
aka: Only the French Can
2. La Chienne (1931)
aka: The Bitch
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