Raymond Aimos

Bifur 3 (1945)

Two hitch-hikers are on the way to Marseilles pursued by her husband. ...

Le mort ne reçoit plus (1944)

In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the Château de l'Etang, in Provence. Firmin, Jérôme's servant, asks Claude, a Montmartre artist, to organize the reunion, to find t ...

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform (1944)

A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories. Rosine, the youngest, falls in love with Francis, fiancé of Edith, the eldest. But Francis pushes her away ...

À la Belle Frégate (1943)

It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy and he does not know how to go with women. One day, he meets Yvonne and falls in love with her. But, alas, ...

Summer Light (1943)

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker. ...

Coup de feu dans la nuit (1943)

A woman is accused of the murder of her husband, who was jealous and brutal. Her lawyer manages to get her acquitted and they get married in the end. ...

L'Appel du bled (1942)

A famous singer and a settler love each other. She lives only for her home and the child she is expecting. At birth, she suffered an accident and could no longer be a mother. Desperate, she wants to leave her husband but the war breaks out and he is missin ...

Midnight in Paris (1942)

On a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr. La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in his car leaving only his wallet. While the police start investigating a missing person report, La Souris concocts a plan to secure his find. ...

The Woman I Loved the Most (1942)

Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join t ...

Pension Jonas (1942)

A tramp has taken up residence in the belly of a museum whale. ...

L'Embuscade (1941)

A young man is hired by an industrialist, while a secret hangs over his birth. His boss's wife turns out to be his mother, who hides the truth from him. ...

Those of the Sky (1941)

An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up having an accident because of fatigue, and pushes the sacrifice to help his rival. ...

The French Way (1940)

Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud. ...

Le café du port (1940)

Following a heartbreak, Aimée, a young girl is taken in by the owners of a café for whom she starts working, and falls in love with René, a sailor who gave her a taste for life. ...

Le Roi des galéjeurs (1940)

Because the shiner Titin has fallen in love with a singer, he braves the latter's protector, the baron, and passes himself off as an insurer in connection with a pearl necklace that is circulating. Bitters get involved, Titin kidnaps the beauty and leaves ...

Dédé la musique (1940)

Dédé de Montmartre, former king of the accordion, has become a bad boy who lives off drug trafficking and prostitution. He sets his sights on a young girl, fresh and naive, Odette, saleswoman at Galeries Lafayette. But he is touched by the charm of this ...

The Emigrant (1940)

Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there. ...

From Mayerling to Sarajevo (1940)

Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, is kept absent from the royal court due to his dangerous political ideas. Sent on a tour of inspections and inaugurations, he falls in love with Countess Sophie Chotek. ...

Les 3 tambours (1939)

12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army. ...

Fire in the Straw (1939)

Antoine Vautier is a failed actor. A director hires Christian, Antoine's son, for a film. He immediately becomes a star. Antoine suffers from it. Christian's second film is a disaster and faced with the collapse of his son, Antoine forgets his jealousy. ...

L'Esprit de Sidi-Brahim (1939)

In the thirties, a Chasseur Alpin commander is accused of spying and sentenced to death. At the last minute, he is saved from the firing squad by a female spy's confession. ...

Nine Bachelors (1939)

Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in Fra ...

Young Man's Fancy (1939)

An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball ...

Ma tante dictateur (1939)

A young man who wishes to launch his girlfriend in the theater, borrows money from his aunt, making her believe that he wants to buy groceries. His aunt arrives and then wishes to visit "her" grocery store; to save the day he borrows the store of a credulo ...

Le Paradis des voleurs (1939)

A fairground boss is ruined. He steals his aunt's jewelry, but being chased he gives the jewelry to a couple of dancers. They are mistaken for the Morton Sisters and perform in the Folies Parisiennes with the jewels, with enormous success. ...

Immediate Call (1939)

In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is about to fall into the arms of a young first. He gains peace but loses his happiness. ...

The World Will Shake (1939)

In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. ...

The Deserter (1939)

During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing, a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to connect with his love and his family. As WW2 began in the real world, this film was rereleased later in '39 under the revised tit ...

Les Gangsters du château d'If (1939)

Sentimental and emotional problems for a certain Jean Mariole who can hardly really position himself between two mistresses. ...

Raphaël le tatoué (1939)

Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Roger Drapeau. One evening, Modeste leaves his post to visit a fairground, where he meets the attractive Aline. Having glimpsed his employer, Modeste makes a ...

Un gosse en or (1939)

Two villagers have adopted a child abandoned on the road. A jealous kid drags him away from the village. He is collected by a traveling circus where his kindness attracts him the affection of all and especially that of the animals. One day he finds his mot ...

Une java (1939)

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Final Accord (1938)

A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students. ...

Captain Benoit (1938)

An officer saves the life of a foreign prince who is in France to buy seaplanes, while pursued by his enemies. ...

Mon curé chez les riches (1938)

In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to brin ...

Bossemans et Coppenolle (1938)

The story is a comedy about two dimwitted men from Brussels, Bossemans and Coppenolle. Much of the comedy comes from the fact that the characters all speak in the local Brussels dialect, which added to its popularity in Brussels and Wallonia. The plot broa ...

The Enchanted Road (1938)

The son of two teachers hits the road and becomes a singing success after being taken in as a protege by a kooky countess. ...

Sommes-nous défendus? (1938)

In a café, sitting around a table, a journalist is explaining to three fellow-compatriots what he saw on the Maginot Line at the borders between France and Nazi Germany. ...

Katia (1938)

In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again. ...

Ultimatum (1938)

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries. ...

Saint Theresa of Lisieux (1938)

The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925. ...

Les Rois de la flotte (1938)

Cruchadouze and Castaniet are two inseparable friends. One day they decide to leave Arcachon to try the adventure in Bordeaux. After various odd jobs, they come into contact with Betty Florent, the banker's wife. This one has just been contacted by a forme ...

Sirocco (1938)

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom h ...

S.O.S. Mediterranean (1938)

The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka and Kim Peacock, cast as captains of French, German and English boats, respectively, unite to rescue the passengers of a neutral boat that is about to be e ...

Ceux De Demain (1938)

Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute where he studies and becomes the protégé of an opera singer at whose house, one day, he surprises a thief ...

Gosse de riche (1938)

The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer. ...

Port of Shadows (1938)

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news. ...

Grisou (1938)

Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can't get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend ...

Chéri-Bibi (1938)

An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony. ...

Titin from Martigues (1938)

In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pretty Yvette, which arouses the jealousy of his rival Dix-de-Der who will cause his downfall. Without this affecting his Provençal joviality, Titin will tr ...

Aloha, the Song of the Islands (1937)

During the London-Melbourne race, two aviators, one male (Guy,) the other female (Betty), are forced to land on a lost island in Polynesia. They learn to survive in difficult conditions and fall in love. Back in civilization, their union does not prove obv ...

Feu! (1937)

During the Rif War, a lieutenant commands a torpedo boat. He finds in an abandoned yacht, a beautiful portrait of a woman, and soon meets this one who is married to a brutal and jealous baron. ...

La Fille de la Madelon (1937)

The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an officer whose father was once in love with La Madelon. ...

The Call of Life (1937)

A love between a teacher and his assistant is thwarted, because of their too great age difference. ...

À nous deux, madame la vie (1937)

Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years. When he leaves, he discovers that Jean has become a businessman and that he has married Lucie. ...

La Reine des resquilleuses (1937)

A young unemployed girl pretends to be a boy and gets a job as a car washer. ...

L'Homme sans cœur (1937)

Sentenced to 20 years after killing a colleague for revealing that his wife was unfaithful, Sourdier escapes hoping to kill the woman as well.He learns she was true to him and has had a little girl who thinks the father is dead. ...

Southern Carrier (1937)

A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert. ...

Symphonie D'Amour (1936)

A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise wh ...

La Belle Équipe (1936)

Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart. ...

The Terrible Lovers (1936)

After a year of turbulent marriage Annette and Daniel get a divorce, and each marries again. However, they meet again on the French Riviera and are tempted to give in to their old passion... ...

La brigade en jupons (1936)

Two female police officers dismantle a network of drug traffickers. ...

Under Western Eyes (1936)

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. ...

Les mutinés de l'Elseneur (1936)

A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London. ...

The Golem (1936)

The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution. ...

Mayerling (1936)

Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the in ...

Lovers and Thieves (1935)

Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving compromising letters from a woman whose lover fears blackmail. But before arriving there, Claude fortunat ...

Sous la griffe (1935)

The tamer Nikita marries the girl he had once recruited into the circus but she loves a trapeze artist. ...

Flight Into Darkness (1935)

During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel ...

La Bandera (1935)

Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon ap ...

Dark Eyes (1935)

In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing the decadent life of this client, immediately sends his ...

Les Bateliers de la Volga (1935)

In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi being to have spent the night with the wife of a colonel, he allows himself to be condemned so as not to compromise the latter. He manages to escape and hides i ...

Justin de Marseille (1935)

A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bound for China and to have Justin killed. ...

Le Miroir aux alouettes (1935)

From Constantinople to Marseilles, aboard a cargo ship, an intrigue full of adventures brings together a courageous young girl and a young risk-taker who succeeds in thwarting a series of long-planned crimes. ...

Barcarolle (1935)

S. S. Tenacity (1934)

Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeeper's daughter, which causes them to rethink their Canad ...

At the End of the World (1934)

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Un certain monsieur Grant (1933)

July 14 (1933)

A light, comedy romance about a cab driver named Jean and a flower girl named Anna that takes place in Paris during the Bastille day celebration of July 14th. ...

The seller of the Louvre (1932)

A provincial department store salesman is transferred to the Paris department store, the 'Galleries du Louvre'. Asking for directions in a city he doesn't know on his first day on the job he gets mistakenly sent to the Louvre museum where he proceeds to se ...

The Regiment's Champion (1932)

Father Sourire, who came to the Château de Villetaneuse to ask for alms, was forced to put on the uniform of the nephew who had fled from the barracks. A soldier in spite of himself, he knows the most frightening adventures which even lead him to a boxing ...

No Women (1932)

Professor Branck invented Fortuna a machine providing absolute luck, fortune and success, to whoever uses it, provided they are a virgin. Trying the experiment, Lucien Lepur, a street vendor who has never known a woman before, becomes the man of all succes ...

Aces of the Turf (1932)

Two friends win a large sum and become the owners of a splendid horse, which a band of adventurers tries to seize. ...

Wooden Crosses (1932)

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodd ...

Mistigri (1931)

Nell Marignan, going by the nickname of Mistigri, a naive small town girl, falls for a tenor on tour. Unfortunately, the man is nothing but a vain, witless and talentless hop. But, blinded by love, Mistigri sacrifices all to follow the buffoon she mistakes ...

Bric a Brac and Company (1931)

If Fernandel did not appear in a supporting part ,another short (by E.Chotin who made dozens of them)which would not have been restored.But Fernandel is here ,playing a street pedlar selling luxury (sic) clothes on the flea market with a gorgeous girl as a ...