Paul Meurisse
Paul Meurisse (21 December 1912, Dunkirk – 19 January 1979, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French actor who appeared in over 60 films and many stage productions. Meurisse was noted for the elegance of his acting style, and for his versatility. He was equally able to play comedic and... Read full bio →
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Le gitan
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Les suspects
When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the roles each one played in the girl's vacation.
Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Des truands se servent d'Alfred pour passer des diamants en Turquie dans un cercueil...
L'armée des ombres
Atmospheric and gripping, Army of Shadows is Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece about the French Resistance underground fighters who must grapple with their own brand of honor in their battle against Hitler’s regime.
Le deuxième souffle
ois hommes s'évadent de la prison de Castres, dont Gustave, dit "Gu" qui vient d'y passer huit ans. Le commissaire Blot disparaît tandis qu'un hold-up s'organise...
Le majordome
Léopold, valet de chambre to the avocat général Maître de Royssac, starts studying the penal code and, during his leave, becomes a judge in a "middle" court. His decisions are recognized as final. Léopold falls in love with Agnès, engaged to the two-faced Doctor Ventoux, who becomes "Le chat" when he plays the gangster.
Le monocle rit jaune
près une vague d'attentats visant des centrales atomiques, le commandant Dromard, des services secrets français, est envoyé à Hong Kong sur les traces d'un suspect, Bergourian. Il se lance à la poursuite d'un gang de terroristes asiatiques qui projetent de faire exploser un porte avion nucléaire américain.
Les tontons flingueurs
La vie de Fernand Naudin, ex-truand devenu depuis petit propriétaire d'une usine de tracteurs, est bouleversée quand son ami d'enfance, un gangster notoire, l'appelle à son chevet...
L'assassin connaît la musique...
Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all he knows, only one became famous. So he had better find a way to finish it.
Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an Italian gigolo and a nightclub hostess, a family of butchers and an apprentice rocker, a mystic tailor, a writer sending himself telegrams, an alert paralytic woman, a thoughtful concierge, a…
L'oeil du monocle
1942, au large de Bonifacio. La Wehrmacht a fait immerger de l'or et des documents classés secret défense. Les espions du monde entier convoîtent ce trésor. Les services secrets français font alors appel à leur meilleur agent, Dromart, alias "Le Monocle".
Le monocle noir
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle. - from IMDB
Le jeu de la vérité
A dozen of elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. They all have got a secret to conceal. They begin a cruel game of truth, a game in which you are not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise while outside the storm is raging.
La vérité
A liberated small-town girl stands on trial to determine whether she killed her lover in a crime of passion or in premeditation.
Marie-Octobre
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed.
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
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La tête contre les murs
Un jeune homme passionné et idéaliste, dont l'équilibre est précaire, s'oppose à son père, avocat autoritaire qui le fait enfermer dans un asile psychiatrique.
Échec au porteur
After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give up working as a courier for drugs traffickers. So that he and Jacqueline can make a fresh start he agrees to take on one more job for a large sum of cash, but he betrays his employer.
Les violents
Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer.
Jusqu'au dernier
Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed double-crossed his gang by keeping part of the product of a robbery for himself. Thanks to his sister Marcella, Fernand has taken refuge in a small circus where she works.
Les diaboliques
Les Diaboliques is a Horror mystery thriller from French director Henri-Georges Clouzot about a triangle relationship that leads to murder.
L'affaire des poisons
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles.
Sergil chez les filles
Inspector Sergil goes head to head with a ruthless gang of drug dealers.
Agnès de rien
Pushed by her husband to settle in the family castle, Agnès finds her sister-in-law Alix there. Her husband Carlos, often absent, loses interest in his wife and gradually approaches Agnès who will end up giving up this relationship.
Le dessous des cartes
A banker responsible for a financial crisis dies, and his death is covered up.
Macadam
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her.