Movies: Raimu

  • 1932
    Fanny

    Fanny (1932)

    Fanny

    7.41932HD

    Picking up moments after the end of Marius, this film follows Fanny’s grief after Marius’s departure—and her realization that she’s pregnant. Panisse continues courting her and embraces the baby’s impending arrival as a gift, so long as its paternity...

    Fanny
  • 1931
    Marius

    Marius (1931)

    Marius

    7.31931HD

    César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fanny, who ...

    Marius
  • 1938
    The Baker's Wife

    The Baker's Wife (1938)

    The Baker's Wife

    7.41938HD

    In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work ...

    The Baker's Wife
  • 1936
    César

    César (1936)

    César

    7.51936HD

    Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Césariot that his real father is Ma...

    César
  • 1938
    The Strange Monsieur Victor

    The Strange Monsieur Victor (1938)

    The Strange Monsieur Victor

    6.91938HD

    Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver ...

    The Strange Monsieur Victor
  • 1937
    The Pearls of the Crown

    The Pearls of the Crown (1937)

    The Pearls of the Crown

    6.21937HD

    The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing....

    The Pearls of the Crown
  • 1937
    Life Dances On

    Life Dances On (1937)

    Life Dances On

    71937HD

    After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him an...

    Life Dances On
  • 1940
    The Well-Digger's Daughter

    The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940)

    The Well-Digger's Daughter

    6.91940HD

    A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant....

    The Well-Digger's Daughter
  • 1942
    Strangers in the House

    Strangers in the House (1942)

    Strangers in the House

    71942HD

    Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existen...

    Strangers in the House
  • 1943
    Colonel Chabert

    Colonel Chabert (1943)

    Colonel Chabert

    6.91943HD

    The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac....

    Colonel Chabert
  • 1942
    Midnight in Paris

    Midnight in Paris (1942)

    Midnight in Paris

    6.21942HD

    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....

    Midnight in Paris
  • 1937
    Gribouille

    Gribouille (1937)

    Gribouille

    51937HD

    Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After h...

    Gribouille
  • 1931
    Black and White

    Black and White (1931)

    Black and White

    61931HD

    A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child....

    Black and White
  • 1946
    The Eternal Husband

    The Eternal Husband (1946)

    The Eternal Husband

    7.71946HD

    An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his last film appearance....

    The Eternal Husband
  • 1936
    The King

    The King (1936)

    The King

    01936HD

    King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix and involved in a...

    The King
  • 1936
    Let's Make a Dream

    Let's Make a Dream (1936)

    Let's Make a Dream

    7.11936HD

    A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity....

    Let's Make a Dream
  • 1931
    Mam'zelle Nitouche

    Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931)

    Mam'zelle Nitouche

    5.51931HD

    Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, ...

    Mam'zelle Nitouche
  • 1957
    Stars Never Die

    Stars Never Die (1957)

    Stars Never Die

    01957HD

    For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis Jouvet, Raimu, Harry Baur, Louis Salou and Marguerite Moreno. Francois Perier's narration links the various vigne...

    Stars Never Die
  • 1940
    The Man Who Seeks the Truth

    The Man Who Seeks the Truth (1940)

    The Man Who Seeks the Truth

    01940HD

    Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and that he has brought up and cherished ever since ; a faithful friend, Lamblin ; and an adorable dog. But...

    The Man Who Seeks the Truth
  • 1935
    Dawn Over France

    Dawn Over France (1935)

    Dawn Over France

    7.71935HD

    The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad harvests, lead Gaspard, a great admirer of Mandrin and blacksmith by profession, to revolt. With his companion Samplan, he finds himself at the head o...

    Dawn Over France