Témoin d’un meurtre commis par Roubaud, chef de gare au Havre, Jacques Lantier, mécanicien de locomotive, devient l’amant de Séverine, la femme de l’assassin. Ce secret les rapproche et Séverine ...

âLa Bete Humaineâ , by Jean Renoir is a grim and macabre noirish film about people doomed by childhood, genetics, or just plain star-crossed fate to destroy and defile the things they love and care ...

Some search for battle, others are born into it ...

Jacques Lantier is a train engineer who is prone to violent seizures, a condition he attributes to his forefathers' habit of excessive drinking. Roubaud is a train conductor on the same railroad that ...