La Bête Humaine (1938 dir. Jean Renoir)

High maintenance female prefers lovers who have committed violent murder.

3/5

La Grande Illusion (1937 dir. Jean Renoir)

Frenchmen desperately escape their pleasant German captors simply due to a ban on light entertainment.

4/5

Toni (1935 dir Jean Renoir)

Hard graft leaves non-actor lonely, poor and with severe blue balls.

3/5

Monkey Business (1931 dir. Norman Z. McLeod)

Vaudeville Jews protest against ocean liner ticket prices by acting the goat for seventy minutes.

3/5

Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932 dir. Jean Renoir)

Obnoxious bum halts the feeling up of slut maid by her bourgeois boss for a few weeks.

3/5

Duck Soup (1933 dir. Leo McCarey)

Timeless wise-cracks lead to war being declared through Broadway sing-songery.

3/5

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)

Small-town man is made to feel uncomfortable by big-town men.

3/5

The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

All-American leads on abominations during trip to capable dictatorship.

1/5

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)

Hitchcock man’s paedophile sanctuary nearly gets halted by congress.

4/5

It Happened One Night (1934)

Every newspaper editor character cliche laid bare for the rest of time.

4/5