Robert Lussac
Also Known As: Robert Timmermans, Bob Storm
Biography: Flemish actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium
Birthday: July 06, 1902
Deathday: December 05, 1987
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Malpertuis
Overview: Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius. He manages to keep them, as well as his nephew and niece, prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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A Certain Mister
Overview: Documents relevant to National Defence have been concealed in a certain vase by a dangerous gang of robbers. To neutralize the criminals, a seasoned police commissioner and his clumsy assistant, young inspector César, join forces with a colorful trio of thieves nicknamed Le Pouce (Thumb), L'Index (Index Finger) and Le Majeur (Middle Finger)...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-24
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Barak 1
Overview: Life in Gestapo jails in occupied Belgium.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-08-17
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Love Around the House
Overview: In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of strange characters. Between the eruption of the vagrant voyeur and that of the couple in love, the youngest kills her eldest and goes mad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-27
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Voyage à trois
Overview: A couple and a friend find themselves on a desert island. The friend asks the husband to share his wife, the situation being very particular. But a friendly native and a typhoon will somewhat upset the organized life of the curious trio...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-12
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Marlène
Overview: Returning from South America, a singer is hired by an old pal who runs a detective agency to use a perch as a night club performer to be an investigator.The amateur sleuth then falls for a girl whose brother is a jewel thief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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The Unknown N° 13
Overview: While investigating the world of Parisian tramps, journalist René Savary, himself disguised as a poor beggar, notices the strange behavior of a little boy. He follows the brat after he has sneaked out of a barge, catches up with him and takes him to his home. There, the kid tells him about himself : his name is Jean, his mother has disappeared and since then he has been left to fend for himself. Moved by the lot of the wretched boy, Savary, with the aid of his friend Pierrot, undertakes to solve the mystery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-21
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Mystère à Shanghai
Overview: In Shangai, the "Green Dragon" threatens to kill Herbert Aboody, a rich exporter, unless he pays him 50,000 dollars. One of Aboody's secretaries calls inspector Wens for help. An amazing fact occurs, Wens kills Aboody and then disappears. What is the key to this mystery?
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-04
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Captain Ardant
Overview: Representing the French authority in Morocco, Captain Ardant is the target of the bloodthirsty rebel leader Malek. In order to appropriate himself in arms, he does not hesitate to take the captain's collaborator hostage and to do despicable blackmail.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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The Inn of Sin
Overview: Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-15
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Mr. Leguignon Lampiste
Overview: A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps it stored in the house. Trouble ensues when he discovers the cache and tries to claim it as his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-08
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The Case Against X
Overview: Paul Dorgères, a wealthy industrialist, has been mysteriously murdered. The investigation is entrusted to the experienced Chief Inspector Bonnardel and his young rookie assistant, Inspector Richard. Suspicion turns to his mistress Catherine Villard, with whom he had just broken up on the night of the crime. She is soon arrested and charged. However, Inspector Richard discovers a button at the scene of the crime which could help him to trace the trail and confound the culprit(s).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-11
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Alone in the World
Overview: François wants to buy a house to help underprivileged children. He lacks money, but a generous donor allows him to realize this dream.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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Full House
Overview: Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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Sweet Madness
Overview: Passing for crazy and locked up, the CEO of a company escapes from the asylum and claims that he is the captain of a troop of pirates. To the disappointment of the director of the company and in the company of three employees, he accomplishes many extravagances which will be beneficial for his acolytes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-07-04
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Life in a Song
Overview: The cinematographic illustration of fifteen cheerful, tender or ferocious songs that made the success of the songwriter of the comedian Noël-Noël. After "Les casses pieds", "La vie chantée" stages several sketches of daily life where everyone can recognize themselves and laugh about it.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Overview: Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-31
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The Deadly Trap
Overview: An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-06-09
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Long Live the Duke!
Overview: A Belgian village is struck by repeated flooding, all this because they lack a new sewer. But the Ministry delays in providing the funding needed to build it. To alert public opinion, the villagers decide to do something. This "something" will be a play describing the life of their saint patron. Trouble follows, partly fueled by the short-tempered mayor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-14
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La tricheuse
Overview: Lily is a lost girl who lived a miserable childhood. Now she works for Martial, a small-time crook. One day, she meets Armand, a shy high school student, the son of a renowned surgeon. And she discovers true love. But Martial is nothing of a tender heart, on the contrary. He manipulates Lily into forcing Armand to mimic the signature of his father, which will allow his gang to obtain drugs with a view to selling them...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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One Only Loves Once
Overview: Although they have loved each other since childhood without admitting it, a surgeon and a young woman see their love thwarted by life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-06-09
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Smuggler's Ball
Overview: Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre (J. P. Kieran) carries on a profitable smuggling operation, all the while romancing Siska (Christian Lenier), the daughter of a local customs official. Various subplots and secondary characters weave in and out as the plotline guides the viewer through the WW II years. Towards the end, the story shifts gears when the Benelux Frontier Agreement eliminates all government regulations. The film's screenplay is by Charles Spaak, himself the descendant of a Belgian political family, and thus well-versed in bureaucracy and red tape.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-08
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Baas Gansendonck
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1974-12-26
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The Murdered Model
Overview: Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the features of a certain Gilbert, who died a year earlier in a family, all of whose members will become more or less suspicious to the Commissioner. He thinks that, in spite of Dr. Furnelle's conclusions, Gilbert's death was not natural. But finding the cause of death and the identity of the possible culprit will require more than a mere intuition.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-10
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The Tale of the Good Murderer
Overview: Based on the play of the same tittle by Jos Janssen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Pilgrimage to Hell
Overview: Biopic about Father Damian and his life and work on the island of Molokai.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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It's a Cruel World!
Overview: Mr Van Peborgh, an "artiste photographe", remained alone with his three sons Henri, Frans and Louis after the death of his wife.The household is done by the maid Beth while the graceful girl Marie helps him in the store.The eldest son Henri is engaged to Hortense and thinks he's getting married soon.Louis wants to leave for America. The big engagement party on which the whole family is present starts without worry but ends up in a disaster because "It's cruel in the world".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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