Jacques Brel

Lino Ventura, la part intime (2018)

The fall of 2017 marked the 30th anniversary of Lino Ventura's death. Whether in the role of tough cops or tough guys - in the 1960s, Lino Ventura was one of the most popular French character actors. The new portrait begins with the actor's childhood. He c ...

Jacques Brel, fou de vivre (2017)

Presents archival material as well as interviews with those who were close to Jacques Brel, who died way too young, at age 49. Jacques Brel sings "Madeleine" over the opening credits of this film and immediately the audience is drawn into the intense theat ...

Jacques Brel, une vie à mille temps (2015)

La Folle Histoire de François Pignon - De La chèvre au Dîner de cons (2015)

Brel à Knokke (2008)

J’aime les Belges ! (2008)

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2007)

A documentary on the influential musician Scott Walker. ...

Jacques Brel - Comme quand on était beau (2003)

A 3 volume DVD set issued by Barclay Records to mark the 25th anniversary of Jacques Brel's death. This amazing collection contains performances filmed in European television plateaux, rarities, interviews and reports, carefully restored from original sour ...

Brel, un cri (1985)

A TV documentary about the singing career of Jacques Brel, beginning with his childhood in Belgium. ...

Brel (1982)

In this documentary, director Frédéric Rossif has mixed footage of the popular, late singer Jacques Brel in concert and stage performances, with his own interpretive shots and news clips to present a synopsis of Brel's career -- from its beginnings in th ...

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975)

Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them. ...

A Pain in the Ass (1973)

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him. ...

Far West (1973)

This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together ...

The Bar at the Crossing (1972)

In 1916, Vincent van Horst leaves Europe to return to his Canadian homeland. There, he seeks his former love, Maria... but the lady's pride is hurt and she refuses to see him. Vincent then falls for a younger woman, Annie. ...

Money Money Money (1972)

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions. ...

Franz (1972)

In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with th ...

Law Breakers (1971)

A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds. ...

Mont-Dragon (1970)

Because he has seduced Germaine de Boismenil, Georges Dormont is thrown out of the army by the colonel and husband of the beautiful. After the death of the Count of Boismenil, Dormont arrived at the castle of the widow with the firm intention of taking rev ...

My Uncle Benjamin (1969)

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason h ...

Brel, Brassens, Ferré, trois hommes sur la photo (1969)

Bonnot's Gang (1968)

The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s. ...

Risky Business (1967)

A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape her. The police and the mayor investigate, but Doucet denies the charges. Two other students come forward to reveal more of Doucet's misconduct – one confessi ...

Jacques Brel - Les Adieux à l'Olympia (1966)

This last recital will remain forever marked in the history of the famous hall. It is one of the only testimonies of Jacques Brel on stage where his talent was best expressed. This concert also retains a very strong emotional dimension because it is his la ...

Jacques Brel à Knokke-le-Zoute, 1963 (1963)

Petit Jour (1962)

Chita: A Legendary Celebration (2020)

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presents a 2013 concert celebrating Chita Rivera's 80th birthday as a fundraiser to aid struggling artists during the pandemic. Chita offers a musical retrospective of her career in the theatre with guest stars Tommy Tune ...

Ne me quitte pas (2013)

The film tells the story of two friends who want to disappear from life. While their country Belgium is falling apart, two lost souls cling to each other. ...

Man of La Mancha (1998)

"Man of the Mancha" tells the story of the "mad" knight Don Quixote as a play within a play, performed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. Television broadcast of the Liège production in French with ...

I'm a Gigolo (1994)

Rikard Wolff performs his show "I'm a Gigolo" from Cirkus in Stockholm. ...

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)

A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert ...

Jenny Arean: Gescheiden Vrouw op Oorlogspad (1986)

Television registration of the first solo program by the Dutch singer and comedian Jenny Arean. Recorded in het Nieuwe de la Mar Theater in Amsterdam. ...

Brel (1985)

Songs, moods and the lifetime of Jacques Brel is made into a musical. Recorded at theatre Göta Lejon, Stockholm in 1984. ...

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975)

Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them. ...

A Pain in the Ass (1973)

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him. ...

Far West (1973)

This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together ...

The Bar at the Crossing (1972)

In 1916, Vincent van Horst leaves Europe to return to his Canadian homeland. There, he seeks his former love, Maria... but the lady's pride is hurt and she refuses to see him. Vincent then falls for a younger woman, Annie. ...

Franz (1972)

In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with th ...

Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969)

When seven archaeologists find an ancient Inca temple, they become victims of an ancient curse. Back in Europe, one by one they fall into a deep sleep and only once a day, all at the same time, they wake up for a few minutes and experience hallucinations w ...

My Uncle Benjamin (1969)

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason h ...

Risky Business (1967)

A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape her. The police and the mayor investigate, but Doucet denies the charges. Two other students come forward to reveal more of Doucet's misconduct – one confessi ...

Jacques Brel - Les Adieux à l'Olympia (1966)

This last recital will remain forever marked in the history of the famous hall. It is one of the only testimonies of Jacques Brel on stage where his talent was best expressed. This concert also retains a very strong emotional dimension because it is his la ...