André Brunot
Also Known As: André Gilbert François Brunot
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Prémery, Nièvre, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 02, 1879
Age: 145 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 04, 1973
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Personal Column
Overview: To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-05
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Portrait of Innocence
Overview: A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer holidays in order to pay for reconstruction.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-02
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Hôtel du Nord
Overview: A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-17
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The Curtain Rises
Overview: 1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-06
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The Beautiful Adventure
Overview: On the very day of his wedding, Valentin Le Barroyer sees the one he was to marry fly away. Hélène has always loved her cousin André, to the great displeasure of her aunt who had combined the failed marriage. The two lovers take refuge in the Dordogne at the home of Hélène's grandmother who believes them to be really husband and wife. Valentin finds the young couple too late, he only has to console himself with a friend of Hélène's.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-20
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The Chain Breaker
Overview: Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a passing circus girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-23
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Picnic on the Grass
Overview: Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself. A shepherd's flute conjures a windstorm that throws Alexis together with the luscious Nénette, a farm lass who wants to have a baby but is unimpressed with men.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-11
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The House of the Seven Maidens
Overview: A widower is in trouble with money, and has seven daughters to marry. A creditor, a timid suitor, is unable to make up his mind.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-02-06
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La Rabouilleuse
Overview: 1824 in Issoudun. A bourgeois, Rouget, lives as a husband and wife, La Rabouilleuse, who holds him in her power. The old man's nephew, ex-Colonel Philippe Bridau of the Imperial Guard, swears to hunt the intruder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-02
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Pas un mot à la reine mère
Overview: The young King Boris of Neustria, who has followed his family in their exile in London, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy American businessman. The latter, however, will only approve the union if Boris gives up royalty for the business world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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La Nuit blanche
Overview: A father wants to try by all means to avenge the death of his son, a test pilot, whose responsible is the attractive female star of a Parisian cabaret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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Vertiges
Overview: A specialist in the fight against cancer, a young doctor finds himself suffering from a terrible illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-10-22
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The Devil Who Limped
Overview: The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-07-11
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The Sharks of Gibraltar
Overview: In order for important British admiralty papers to pass into the hands of the Germans, the spy Gordon has the ingenious idea of transforming a lamentable drunkard into a Lady, haughty but submissive to his orders. Stella's transformation is complete, the success extraordinary. Why must a French officer touching the heart of the former pochard bring down the fragile edifice? A submarine is about to blow up, Gordon is shot down and a confessed Stella returns to her horrible taverns to drown her sorrows in alcohol for good.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-14
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Two Loves
Overview: Sylvain is the town clerk of the small Provençal village of Coursoul. He is the darling of all the girls in the country. His brother, Désiré, a disabled carpenter, secretly loves Toinette, the lumber merchant's daughter. She falls in love with Sylvain. This one, convinced by the director of a traveling circus of the excellence of his voice, is about to leave everything to follow his career. But Désiré learns from Toinette that she is expecting a child from Sylvain. He goes to inform his brother, who reconsiders his decision. But Désiré will leave in his place, not to sing, but with his bruised heart to play Paillasse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-01-05
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The Private Life of an Actor
Overview: Biography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-26
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The Virtuous Scoundrel
Overview: La Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953, directed by Sacha Guitry, written by Sacha Guitry, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-18
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Le Rouge et le Noir
Overview: It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-29
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Maxime
Overview: Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young millionaire.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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L'Habit vert
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-09
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him...
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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Les Précieuses ridicules
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1910-01-21
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The Dreadful
Overview: César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded inventor. The latter comes to propose a new type of carburetor to the company when César has to hand in the day's takings to his superior.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-10
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Leguignon the Healer
Overview: Having cured the local café owner, Diogène Leguignon becomes convinced that he is a healer and possesses the fluid. His wife sees the benefits of this gift and urges Diogene to exercise his power, particularly on a wealthy old man, M. Coq. Arlette Leguignon, however, is in love with a young doctor, who is violently opposed to her future father-in-law. Leguignon ends up condemned and, disgusted, no longer wants to look after others. When Mr. Coq dies, making him his legatee, Leguignon has to contend with the Coq family. This time, Doctor Martinet comes to his defense. The inheritance is used to build a clinic where Leguignon can carry out his experiments as a magnetizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-07-18
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