Jacques Brunius

Jacques Brunius

Born: September 16, 1909
Died: April 24, 1967
in Paris, France

Movies for Jacques Brunius...

Return from the Ashes
Title: Return from the Ashes
Released: November 16, 1965
Type: Movie
A 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.
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Song of the World
Title: Song of the World
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: Movie
In 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.
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Title: The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Character: Duc de d'Angouleme (England) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
One 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.
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Orders to Kill
Title: Orders to Kill
Character: Cmndt. Morand
Released: July 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A 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.
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Dangerous Exile
Title: Dangerous Exile
Character: De Chassagne
Released: December 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Dangerous 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.
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True as a Turtle
Title: True as a Turtle
Character: Monsieur Charbonnier
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Tony 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.
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House of Secrets
Title: House of Secrets
Character: Lessage
Released: October 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
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Wicked as They Come
Title: Wicked as They Come
Character: Inspector Caron
Released: May 22, 1956
Type: Movie
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
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To Paris with Love
Title: To Paris with Love
Character: Monsieur Marconne
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.
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Forbidden Cargo
Title: Forbidden Cargo
Character: Det. Pierre Valance
Released: May 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
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Laughing Anne
Title: Laughing Anne
Character: Frenchie
Released: September 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Story of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.
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Always a Bride
Title: Always a Bride
Character: Inspector
Released: August 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Set 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]
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Sea Devils
Title: Sea Devils
Character: Fouche
Released: April 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Gilliatt, 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.
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South of Algiers
Title: South of Algiers
Character: Kress (as Jacques Brunius)
Released: March 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Title: 24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Character: Concierge, Pension Lisa
Released: September 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
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To the Rescue
Title: To the Rescue
Character: Mr. Black
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Title: The Lavender Hill Mob
Character: Customs Official
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
A 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.
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Good Enough to Eat
Title: Good Enough to Eat
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Rose 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?
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El sueño de Andalucía
Title: El sueño de Andalucía
Released: March 16, 1951
Type: Movie
Juanillo is in love with Dolores, the daughter of the owner of an inn. He likes to sing, she likes dancing. After the village festivals, where Juanillo has acted as a bullfighter and Dolores has performed, he has been hired as bullfighter for a tour in America. They exchange vows, but their letters will be intercepted.
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Andalusia
Title: Andalusia
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1951
Type: Movie
Having fallen out with his girlfriend Dolorès, Juanito leaves for Mexico, where he becomes a famous matador.There he meets a Viennese singer, Fanny Miller, who falls for him so much so that she intercepts the letters Dolorès keeps on sending him. In desperation, Dolorès devotes all her time and efforts to dance and she becomes the celebrated dancer Estrellita. After a series of misunderstandings and ups and downs, the sun of Andalusia will finally reunite the two lovebirds.
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The Wooden Horse
Title: The Wooden Horse
Character: André
Released: October 16, 1950
Type: Movie
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
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A Day in the Country
Title: A Day in the Country
Character: Rodolphe
Released: May 21, 1946
Type: Movie
The 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.
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The Mondesir Heir
Title: The Mondesir Heir
Character: Le médecin (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de Mondésir. The Baron dies and in happy amazement, Bienaimé finds he is the sole heir to the deceased's estate. But he should be careful, for two crooks, Waldemar and Erika, are after his newly-acquired wealth.
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Heartbeat
Title: Heartbeat
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
A 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.
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The Time of the Cherries
Title: The Time of the Cherries
Character: Director's grandson
Released: January 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting gives young workers hope for a better future.
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Life Is Ours
Title: Life Is Ours
Character: Le président du conseil d'administration
Released: April 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Title: The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Character: M. Baigneur
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?
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The Free Trade Hotel
Title: The Free Trade Hotel
Character: Le monsieur du train
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
There'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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L'Atalante
Title: L'Atalante
Character: Un flic à bicyclette (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.
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It's in the Bag
Title: It's in the Bag
Character: Adrien, le client au béret
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in the bag is not the millionaire himself, but his son...!
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L'Âge d'or
Title: L'Âge d'or
Character: Passer-by in the Street (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
The 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.