Georges Aminel

Le siècle des lumières (1993)

Follows the story of three privileged Creole orphans from Havana, as they meet French adventurer Victor Hugues and get involved in the revolutionary turmoil that shook the Atlantic World at the end of the eighteenth century. The main characters are all mem ...

Parisian Life (1977)

Two young Parisians, Raoul de Gardefeu and Bobinet, are in love with Metella, a beautiful young woman aspiring to high society. Metella rejects them both in favour of a richer and older man. ...

La Grande Récré (1976)

Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle! (1975)

Shame, the ape man of the jungle, is aghast when his woman, June, is kidnapped by a gang of giant penises. They take her to their queen, Bazunga, a bald woman with fourteen breasts. After tangling with a gang of great white hunters, a marauding lion and th ...

La Tête des autres (1973)

Prosecutor Maillard can rejoice: he has just obtained the death sentence of an accused accused of murder. It is the third head he gets at the assizes. There followed an evening of rejoicing with his wife and friends, including the prosecutor Bertolier. The ...

Gates of Fire (1972)

In October 1942, as an offensive was launched against Rommel's troops, a vehicle carrying a doctor and four nurses strayed into the desert. Prisoners of a German unit and aware that it was going to use them to ambush the Allied relief column, they set out ...

The Lonely Killers (1972)

Set against the grim backdrop of a Belgian city, the film depicts two young men who kill randoms and hunt people for nothing. ...

Popsy Pop (1971)

Claudia Cardinale is Popsy, who double-crosses her older partner Silva (Stanley Baker). Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her "pop" wrong as they are both pursued by p ...

Docteur Caraïbes (1970)

The islands of the Caribbean Sea. Tiberio, an astonishing junk dealer, runs a store selling bits and pieces of wreckage fished here and there... A certain Jeff, a sailor with a passion for the bottle... "works" with Tiberio, perfecting old maps showing shi ...

Reportage sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques (1970)

Greed in the Sun (1964)

A truck driver ventures into the Moroccan desert to retrieve a stolen truck, facing danger, bad luck, and uneasy alliances. Chaos builds to a climactic showdown. ...

Sahara on Fire (1961)

A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced ...

The Bear (1960)

A mild-mannered zookeeper has to contend with his tyrannical boss and a talking lovesick bear. ...

The Lovers of Tomorrow (1959)

A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police. ...

The Creation of the World (1958)

La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact, the film was animated in Czechoslovakia and directed by Eduard Hofman. It is adapted from a series of five books by Jean Effel, a French caricaturist and illus ...

Illegal Cargo (1958)

A female journalist beats two male rivals to a scoop by exposing a white slave racket going on right in 50s Paris. ...

The Gates of Paris (1957)

Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive, Pierre Barbier, in Juju's broken-down home. The urge for being needed is such in Juju that he gives up dri ...

Love in Jamaica (1957)

Manuel, a landowner in Jamaica, arrives in Paris on vacation. There he meets Olivia, a Spanish popular singer and falls in love. Olivia leaves Paris to play in a casino of the Riviera and Manuel follows her there. Maxime lives in Cannes, uncle of Olivia, a ...

The Little Rebels (1955)

Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Judge Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile jail. ...

Dangerous Turning (1954)

The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and cocaine smuggling. ...

Le Cabaret du Grand Large (1946)

Superintendent Thomas is investigating a cabaret owner with suspicious actions. ...

A Cage of Nightingales (1945)

In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director. ...

Angel of the Night (1944)

A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association falls in love with the young girl who returns the favor. The war. The sculptor comes back blind. Out of gratit ...