Jacques Brunius

Return from the Ashes (1965)

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 st ...

Song of the World (1965)

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 f ...

The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

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 gi ...

Orders to Kill (1958)

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. ...

Dangerous Exile (1957)

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 ...

True as a Turtle (1957)

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 m ...

House of Secrets (1956)

Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them. ...

Wicked as They Come (1956)

A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder. ...

To Paris with Love (1955)

A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love. ...

Forbidden Cargo (1954)

Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team. ...

Laughing Anne (1953)

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. ...

Always a Bride (1953)

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 res ...

Sea Devils (1953)

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 feel ...

South of Algiers (1953)

Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask. ...

24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952)

A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself. ...

To the Rescue (1952)

Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him. ...

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

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. ...

Good Enough to Eat (1951)

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, ...

El sueño de Andalucía (1951)

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 Ame ...

Andalusia (1951)

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 desp ...

The Changing Face of Europe (1951)

Industrial and social progress in post-war Europe. ...

The Wooden Horse (1950)

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany ...

A Day in the Country (1946)

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. ...

The Mondesir Heir (1940)

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. Bu ...

Heartbeat (1938)

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. ...

The Time of the Cherries (1938)

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. ...

Life Is Ours (1936)

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists. ...

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

Mild-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. ...

The Free Trade Hotel (1934)

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 ...

L'Atalante (1934)

Newly 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. ...

It's in the Bag (1932)

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...! ...

To the Rescue (1952)

Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him. ...

Brief City (1952)

Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London. ...

The Changing Face of Europe (1951)

Industrial and social progress in post-war Europe. ...

A Day in the Country (1946)

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. ...

French Communique (1940)

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come. ...

Violons d'Ingres (1939)

Shows hobbies of people who do an ordinary job in the day. Made for New York Fair. ...

Records 37 (1937)

Life Is Ours (1936)

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists. ...