The best Paul Meurisse’s movies

Paul Meurisse

Paul Meurisse

21/12/1912- 19/01/1979
Today we present the best Paul Meurisse’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Paul Meurisse’s movies.
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Diabolique

Diabolique
8.1/10
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Army of Shadows

Army of Shadows
8.1/10
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

La Vérité

La Vérité
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/11/1960
  • Character: Maître Éparvier
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.

Crooks in Clover

Crooks in Clover
7.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyCrime
  • Release: 27/11/1963
  • Character: commandant Théobald Dromard, dit « Le Monocle »
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

Le Deuxième Souffle

Le Deuxième Souffle
7.9/10
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Marie-Octobre

Marie-Octobre
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 24/04/1959
  • Character: François Renaud-Picart
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. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.

The Gypsy

The Gypsy
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/12/1975
  • Character: Yan Kuq
Hugo Sennart is a French Gypsy, wanted by the police for theft. The same inspector who's searching for him is also looking for a jewel thief, Yan Kuq, whose wife has died under suspicious circumstance just after a major burglary. The Gypsy needs to settle a few scores and make one more heist before going to ground, and, by coincidence, his path takes him close to Yan, who's hiding in the hotel of a close friend and former lover, Ninie. The Gypsy lives by a code of honor, which puts him at risk on occasion; and he despises those who treat his people as worse than dogs. The police close in. Is there honor among thieves?

The Black Monocle

The Black Monocle
6.2/10
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

Picnic on the Grass

Picnic on the Grass
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/11/1959
  • Character: Étienne Alexis, célèbre biologiste
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.

Les Suspects

Les Suspects
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 27/11/1974
  • Character: Laurent Kirchner
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.

Back Streets of Paris

Back Streets of Paris
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/11/1946
  • Character: Victor Ménard, l'ancien complice de Mme Rose
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. During a drinking spree, he has the bad idea to entrust to her a suitcase filled with bank notes, a loot with which Victor hopes to rebuild his life in South America. But Rose, lured by temptation, betrays Victor, who is arrested by the police. However, he manages to escape with only one thing in mind, to take revenge on Rose...

Guinguette

Guinguette
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/03/1959
  • Character: le vicomte Édouard de Villancourt

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 10/02/1971
  • Character: Kruger

Le majordome

Le majordome
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/03/1965
  • Character: Léopold

The Monocle's Sour Laugh

The Monocle's Sour Laugh
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyThriller
  • Release: 16/09/1964
  • Character: le commandant Théobald Dromar dit 'le Monocle'
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.

Échec au porteur

Échec au porteur
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/01/1958
  • Character: Commissaire-Divisionnaire Varzeilles
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.

The Game of Truth

The Game of Truth
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 26/11/1961
  • Character: Portrant
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise, while outside the storm is raging. Enter a hateful person (played by Paul Meurisse, the nasty headmaster in "Les Diaboliques") who seems to know a lot about them. Someone is murdered. Whodunit?

The Voracious Ones

The Voracious Ones
5.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/01/1973
  • Character: Inspecteur Martino

The Big Swag

The Big Swag
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyThriller
  • Release: 09/07/1965
  • Character: Paul Filippi, le gangster
Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il rédige un polar situé dans l'univers de la RATP, boudé par les éditeurs. Le livre parvient alors aux yeux d'une bande de criminels...

Head against the Wall

Head against the Wall
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/03/1959
  • Character: Dr. Emery
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.

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