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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 serious dramatic roles. His screen appearances ranged from the droll and drily humorous to the menacing and disturbing. His most celebrated role was that of the sadistic and vindictive headmaster in the 1955 film Les Diaboliques.
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13 December 1961
Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do parents and their superficial society firends and the stiff, intolerant catholic establishment in which he studies.
22 September 1948
Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young smuggler.
06 June 1952
The maid of a clandestine brothel in Marseille is found murdered. The inspector Sergil, in charge of the investigation will employ somewhat particular methods in order to unmask the assassin.
27 November 1946
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.
29 January 1955
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.
24 March 1965
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.
03 October 1948
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines.
16 March 1955
Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees and joins the Ghafaris, determined to help his former enemies against the Amiris.
10 February 1971
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
30 October 1941
Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the fashionable photographer, the Prince Andromache of Miremir and his faithful secretary Palmer?
26 November 1961
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.
10 September 1969
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.
04 November 1955
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.
17 March 1950
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.
10 January 1958
Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper.
29 August 1961
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich.
11 January 1973
On the Côte d'Azur, a rich man wins a large sum of money playing at the casino. As he leaves the establishment, he is assaulted and knocked unconscious, his loot stolen.
15 July 1946
The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin.
02 November 1960
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.
26 September 1954
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.
21 November 1947
Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee.
27 March 2010
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.
11 November 1959
New Europe presidential candidate Etienne Alexis is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion.
05 March 1958
"Le septième ciel" became Raymond Bernard's last film; a black comedy about a female brewery owner who donates vast amounts of money to charitable causes.
01 November 1966
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
03 October 1945
Marie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears by ... poverty! She does not remain the companion of a banker too long for obvious reasons. But when she can be the muse of a poor music composer it is fine by her. Unless the musician becomes too famous...! Then, she leaves him! But maybe not forever... He can fall into poverty again, can't he?
18 March 1966
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich.
25 August 1948
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered a convent.
13 October 1948
Inspector Sergil is assigned the mission to protect the dictator of Santa Juanita during his stay in France and - it goes without saying -trouble begins at once, as of his journey in the fast train from Paris to Marseilles.
01 June 1947
A husband covers his weekly infidelities with the pretext of hunting. His best friend intends to take advantage of the situation and makes an appointment with the outraged wife in a bachelor flat where the situation is resolved, not without morality being undermined.
20 April 1962
In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis.
27 November 1963
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.
15 January 1947
Inspector Sergil is a detective comedy. Sergil, inspector of the P.J., investigates three crimes, helped by two pretty women, Bijou and Nadège.
10 January 1945
Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are inverted, resulting in a real sentimental imbroglio which finds its best conclusion in the context of the Théâtre aux Armées.
31 May 1951
Schomberg, an enigmatic psychiatrist runs a nursing home. He is forced to close his clinic and disappear to escape the police.
01 July 1949
L'Ange rouge is a cabaret run by a former mobster with his friend, a singer and dancer he brought back from Argentina.
27 November 1974
In the south of France, the body of a 22-year-old American tourist, Candice Strasberg, is discovered in the middle of the scrubland.
16 October 1963
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.
24 April 1959
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin.
05 December 1975
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
20 March 1957
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.
16 September 1964
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.
09 April 1971
A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
05 December 1951
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond.
15 February 1963
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 bird breeder and a just‑out‑of‑jail hooligan.
14 November 1962
In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica.
04 March 1959
Renée dite Guinguette, a former prostitute, has earned enough money on the Parisian sidewalk to buy her dream: a waterfront guinguette.
15 January 1958
After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give up working as a courier for drugs traffickers.
19 November 1941
Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer.
16 September 1960
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
10 September 1965
Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who involves them (against their will) in high-profile swindling, but their success is quite limited.
20 March 1959
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
12 June 1957
To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an aircraft manufacturer and stealing the plans for a revolutionary engine.
30 September 1949
A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claims to have been murdered.
01 December 1948
A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.
19 March 1965
A story about Caroline, a young girl who decides to start dating only men after forty.
02 October 1963
Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides to be revenged on women and his inmates teach him how to seduce and exploit them.
25 May 1976
This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married.
23 December 1942
Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department store where, wearing wedding suits, they distribute flyers to passers-by.
09 July 1965
Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier.
