Jacques Baumer
Also Known As: Jacques, Henri Nusbaumer
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: April 12, 1885
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 20, 1951
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Feu!
Overview: During the Rif War, a lieutenant commands a torpedo boat. He finds in an abandoned yacht, a beautiful portrait of a woman, and soon meets this one who is married to a brutal and jealous baron.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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Café de Paris
Overview: This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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They Were Five
Overview: Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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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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That scoundrel Morin
Overview: Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been having quite a raunchy sex life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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Étienne
Overview: Étienne, a very sensitive being, watches helplessly as his mother suffers from his father's infidelities. He tries to seduce his father's next conquest without his knowledge.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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Gribouille
Overview: Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acquittal he takes her into his house. While he tries to keep her identity a secret for his family her presence leads to a number of unfortunate incidents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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L'Homme sans cœur
Overview: Sentenced to 20 years after killing a colleague for revealing that his wife was unfaithful, Sourdier escapes hoping to kill the woman as well.He learns she was true to him and has had a little girl who thinks the father is dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-04
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La Reine des resquilleuses
Overview: A young unemployed girl pretends to be a boy and gets a job as a car washer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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A Picnic on the Grass
Overview: A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-09
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Rasputin
Overview: Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-28
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Legions of Honor
Overview: An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-17
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La Glu
Overview: A young Breton sailor falls in love with a visiting stranger called 'La Glu'. He drops his betrothed, mother and friends so that he can live with her. La Glu is murdered. Who did it? Relatives and friends are all suspects.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-27
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Final Accord
Overview: A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Durand bijoutier
Overview: Mr. Durand is bored in his relationship. He takes a mistress but does not take long to return to his wife, a little because he is sad, a little also because he has affection for her, but above all out of selfish habit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-28
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L'Appel du bled
Overview: A famous singer and a settler love each other. She lives only for her home and the child she is expecting. At birth, she suffered an accident and could no longer be a mother. Desperate, she wants to leave her husband but the war breaks out and he is missing. She faces, courageously, alone the life of the bled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-18
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White Wings
Overview: A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothing. She follows in their daily life three young girls beloved and badly brought up by a widower, an artist with measured comicality. Sister Claire will save one of the sisters abandoned by her seducer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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Mademoiselle Béatrice
Overview: A law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is not from the bourgeoisie and the boy is afraid his father might not approve of their union.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-05-19
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Mahlia the Mestiza
Overview: Daughter of a French officer and an Annamite, Mahlia was brought up in Indochina by Mr. and Mrs. de Roussière. Their son, Henri, would like to marry her but they are against it. Mahlia flees and Henri is killed for trying to protect her. The young girl enters the Mission to raise children there in the love of France.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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Désiré
Overview: Sacha Guitry exchanges his usual top hat for a uniform in Désiré, playing a cavalier valet embroiled in an awkward flirtation with his new employer (played by the actor-director's real-life wife, Jacqueline Delubac), who is involved with a stuffy politician. A carefree class farce filled with memorable supporting characters, Désiré blurs the distinction between upstairs and downstairs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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By the Window
Overview: Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter. He is a naive good-natured man who, like most of his fellow-workers, favors a little song or two while he works. For the time being he is busy repainting the exterior of a block of flats and, when he does not sing to pass the time, he looks through the windows, observing the tenants in their daily lives. As time goes by, he goes as far as intervening and changing the course of their lives. In the end, despite having found a lookalike of his fiancée, he returns to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-22
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Night Round
Overview: During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-09
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Millionaires for One Day
Overview: A typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many people believe they have won the jackpot. Pursued by his newspaper editor, the worker appears in court where all mystified people are invited to testify.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-13
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Dear Caroline
Overview: France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-28
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Behind the Facade
Overview: In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron, the local superintendent, is dispatched to investigate, along with his rival, Inspector Lambert of the "Sûreté". To solve the enigma, they scour staircases and corridors, visiting every floor of both buildings, courtyard and facade. Their gruff rivalry allows them to complement each other in discovering who committed the crime among a gallery of characters, humble or rich, who all have something to be ashamed of... A rare, fast-paced, picturesque comedy set against the backdrop of a police mystery.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-14
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The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell
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 History Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-01-22
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Majestic Hotel Cellars
Overview: In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, finds the corpse of Mrs Petersen, a rich client. The investigation by Maigret allows him to rub the husband of the victim, a Swede, Teddy, Ms Petersen’s son, his housekeeper, a social dancer and Donge himself who is the natural father of Teddy. The child he will go to his real father or not he will leave the rich Petersen who adores? The murder mystery and enigma sentimental are resolved by Maigret.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-08-11
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The Ferret
Overview: A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-10
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The Great Temptation
Overview: The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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Double Crime in the Maginot Line
Overview: Commander d'Espinac is found murdered. Having argued the day before the murder with Captain Bruchot, he is accused. The captain will have to conduct his own investigation if he wants to clear himself. His suspicions will fall on one of the three officers attached to his unit.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Business Is Business
Overview: Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particularly a ruined noble: he wants his daughter to marry this marquis's son but the girl is in love with a young scientist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-10
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Paris - New-York
Overview: The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-03
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Daybreak
Overview: After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-09
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The Cheat
Overview: The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-07-26
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Coup de tête
Overview: A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Colonel Chabert
Overview: The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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Hatred
Overview: Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-26
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The Benefactor
Overview: A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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Just Me
Overview: Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of all things, prices freedom. Which is why he has become a tramp and he has never regretted his choice of life. Things go smoothly until the day he inherits a huge amount of money. He first refuses it but changes his mind when he realizes that thanks to the inheritance he can help others. Even more enticing is the fact that he must share the big money with a charming air hostess. However once he deems he has done enough good he gives up the money left and resumes his old lifestyle singing along "Ma pomme c'est moi, j'suis plus heureux qu'un roi..."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-15
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Strangers in the House
Overview: Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-16
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Cordial Agreement
Overview: The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Southern Carrier
Overview: A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Impasse of Two Angels
Overview: Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-03
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The Southern Trail
Overview: As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be taken to a remote desert village called Tirzit amidst a band of lonely, ailing men. She meets her husband's partner who tries to kill her. Hélène does not report him to the police but is curious to learn the reasons for his action. Before dying of a terrible fever, the man confesses that he murdered her husband.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-07
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