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La Bete Humaine = the Human Beast

France, 1938
film

“So that the trains and the costumes of another era would not distract his audience, Jean Renoir situated his adaptation of Zola’s novel in 1938. ..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

The Human beast = La Bete humaine

France, 1938
Similarity: 91%

La Chienne = the Bitch

France, 1931
Similarity: 75%

The Butcher = Le Boucher

France, 1969
Similarity: 74%

Les Grandes Illusions (1939-1942) Pt. 07

France
Similarity: 74%

The Beast = La Bete [DVD] (E)

France, 1975
Similarity: 73%

French cancan

France, 1955
Similarity: 73%

Beauty and the Beast = La Belle et la Bete

France, 1946
Similarity: 72%

La Belle Equipe = They Were Five

France, 1936
Similarity: 72%

Les Miserables

France, 1934
Similarity: 71%

La Beaute du Diable = Beauty and the Devil

France, 1949
Similarity: 71%

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

France, 1945
Similarity: 71%

Baton Rouge

France, 1986
Similarity: 71%

French Cancan

France, 1954
Similarity: 71%

The Beast of Monsieur Racine

Czechoslovakia, 1974
Similarity: 71%

The Beautiful troublemaker = La Belle noiseuse

France, 1991
Similarity: 71%

The Beast of Monsieur Racine (K)

Czechoslovakia, 1974
Similarity: 71%

The Blood of the beast = Le sang des betes

Canada, 1949
Similarity: 71%

Belle de Jour

France, 1967
Similarity: 70%
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