Jacques Brunius
Actor · 1909 – 1967 · Paris, France
Movies23
Movie6.1DramaComedyOne Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964 · 62 votes
Movie7.2ComedyCrimeA meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · 296 votes
Movie6.8RomanceComedyThe film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
L'Âge d'or
1930 · 352 votes
Movie6.8Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
Movie7.5ComedyDramaNewly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.
L'Atalante
1934 · 478 votes
Movie6.9ComedyA pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.
Movie7.1DramaCrimeMild-mannered novelist of Western fiction, Amédée Lange, and his colleagues take over a publishing house after their exploitative boss disappears, only for the superior to return and try to reclaim the profits from their successful cooperative.
Movie5.8ActionAdventureGilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
Sea Devils
1953 · 32 votes
Movie6.2ThrillerDramaA Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.
Return from the Ashes
1965 · 32 votes
Movie7.2WarThrillerA grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
Orders to Kill
1958 · 25 votes
Movie5.0DramaA ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
Wicked as They Come
1956 · 15 votes
Movie6.8WarDramaTrue story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
The Wooden Horse
1950 · 30 votes
Movie7.3DramaRomanceThe family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceSet against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]
Always a Bride
1953 · 5 votes
Movie6.6DramaAdventureArchaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
South of Algiers
1953 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThere's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas, for their own sake, they should not. An example among others: an expert who has come to the hotel for professional reasons had better not meet his wife, who is there to cheat on him with his best friend.
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Industrial and social progress in post-war Europe.
The Changing Face of Europe
1951 · 1 votes
Movie3.7DramaIn Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on the ground, giving birth to a child: it was Clara, a young blind woman.
Movie6.3AdventureDramaDangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
Dangerous Exile
1957 · 6 votes
Movie7.7ComedyTony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle, a fine yacht owned by an industrialist friend, Dudley Partridge. A lot of misadventures await them before they finally reach France.
True as a Turtle
1957 · 3 votes
Movie6.9CrimeThrillerKenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
Forbidden Cargo
1954 · 8 votes
Movie6.4DramaHistoryA propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Movie5.6RomanceComedyA father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.
To Paris with Love
1955 · 9 votes