Paul Meurisse

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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Meurisse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Paul Meurisse
  • Popularity: 2.199
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1912-12-21
  • Place of Birth: Dunkerque, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
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  • Also Known As: Поль Мёрисс
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Paul Meurisse Movies

  • 1955
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    Diabolique

    Diabolique

    7.897 1955 HD

    The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he...

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  • 1966
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    Le Deuxième Souffle

    Le Deuxième Souffle

    7.6 1966 HD

    A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

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  • 1963
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    Crooks in Clover

    Crooks in Clover

    7.739 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Bethsabée

    Bethsabée

    4.9 1947 HD

    Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who...

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  • 1974
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    The Suspects

    The Suspects

    5.4 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    Picnic on the Grass

    Picnic on the Grass

    6.4 1959 HD

    Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to...

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  • 1960
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    The Truth

    The Truth

    7.6 1960 HD

    As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship...

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  • 1969
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    Army of Shadows

    Army of Shadows

    7.9 1969 HD

    Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in...

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  • 1942
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    Forbidden to Love

    Forbidden to Love

    3 1942 HD

    An unconsummated marriage to fool the father who wants his heir to be wed.

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  • 1962
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    The Eye of the Monocle

    The Eye of the Monocle

    6.1 1962 HD

    In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor...

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  • 1948
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    Impasse of Two Angels

    Impasse of Two Angels

    5.6 1948 HD

    Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives...

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  • 1948
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    Scandal

    Scandal

    3.5 1948 HD

    A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.

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  • 1948
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    The Eleven O'Clock Woman

    The Eleven O'Clock Woman

    6.1 1948 HD

    Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving...

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  • 1955
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    The Case of Poisons

    The Case of Poisons

    6.7 1955 HD

    Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty,...

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  • 1965
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    The Big Swag

    The Big Swag

    6 1965 HD

    Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il...

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  • 1964
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    The Monocle's Sour Laugh

    The Monocle's Sour Laugh

    5.3 1964 HD

    A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.

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  • 1971
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    Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

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

    5.893 1971 HD

    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.

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  • 1965
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    When the Pheasants Pass

    When the Pheasants Pass

    6.5 1965 HD

    Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who involves them (against their will) in...

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  • 1945
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    Vingt-quatre heures de perm'

    Vingt-quatre heures de perm'

    1 1945 HD

    Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are inverted, resulting in a real sentimental imbroglio...

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  • 1945
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    Destitute Mary

    Destitute Mary

    1 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic

    The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic

    1 1946 HD

    The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin. A mysterious stranger...

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  • 1963
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    Chicken Feed for Little Birds

    Chicken Feed for Little Birds

    6 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    Marie-Octobre

    Marie-Octobre

    7.3 1959 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Inspector Sergil

    Inspector Sergil

    1 1947 HD

    Inspector Sergil is a detective comedy. Sergil, inspector of the P.J., investigates three crimes, helped by two pretty women, Bijou and Nadège.

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  • 1955
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    Fortune carrée

    Fortune carrée

    5 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    Colonel Durand

    Colonel Durand

    5 1948 HD

    In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered a convent. Now, he is garrisoned at Strasbourg.

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  • 1948
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    Sergil et le dictateur

    Sergil et le dictateur

    1 1948 HD

    Inspector Sergil is assigned the mission to protect the dictator of Santa Juanita during his stay in France and - it goes without saying -trouble...

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  • 1949
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    The Red Angel

    The Red Angel

    1 1949 HD

    L'Ange rouge is a cabaret run by a former mobster with his friend, a singer and dancer he brought back from Argentina. A fleeing gangster takes...

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  • 1963
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    L'assassin connaît la musique

    L'assassin connaît la musique

    7.7 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    The Gypsy

    The Gypsy

    6.302 1975 HD

    Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.

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  • 1951
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    Maria of the End of the World

    Maria of the End of the World

    1 1951 HD

    Maria is the wife of self-styled naturalist Mathius. Alas, Maria's husband spends more time with his beloved woodland creatures than with her....

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  • 1946
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    Back Streets of Paris

    Back Streets of Paris

    6.1 1946 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Me and the Forty Year Old Man

    Me and the Forty Year Old Man

    5 1965 HD

    A story about Caroline, a young girl who decides to start dating only men after forty.

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  • 1951
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    Serenade to the Executioner

    Serenade to the Executioner

    6 1951 HD

    Schomberg, an enigmatic psychiatrist runs a nursing home. He is forced to close his clinic and disappear to escape the police. But he wants revenge...

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  • 1961
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    The Game of Truth

    The Game of Truth

    5.9 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Code Name: Melville

    Code Name: Melville

    6.7 2008 HD

    Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth...

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  • 1957
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    Until the Last One

    Until the Last One

    5.6 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Sergil Among the Girls

    Sergil Among the Girls

    2 1952 HD

    The maid of a clandestine brothel in Marseille is found murdered. The inspector Sergil, in charge of the investigation will employ somewhat...

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  • 1965
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    Le Majordome

    Le Majordome

    7.4 1965 HD

    Léopold, valet de chambre to the avocat général Maître de Royssac, starts studying the penal code and, during his leave,...

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  • 1959
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    Head Against the Wall

    Head Against the Wall

    6.8 1959 HD

    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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  • 1943
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    The Wolf Farm

    The Wolf Farm

    4.1 1943 HD

    Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off...

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  • 1973
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    The Voracious Ones

    The Voracious Ones

    5.2 1973 HD

    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...

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  • 1958
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    Not Delivered

    Not Delivered

    6 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1966
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    Congress of Love

    Congress of Love

    1 1966 HD

    Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves...

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  • 1958
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    Les Violents

    Les Violents

    4.8 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1958
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    Seventh Heaven

    Seventh Heaven

    5.5 1958 HD

    "Le septième ciel" became Raymond Bernard's last film; a black comedy about a female brewery owner who donates vast amounts of money to...

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  • 1971
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    Easy Down There!

    Easy Down There!

    6.6 1971 HD

    A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.

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  • 1957
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    The Inspector Likes a Fight

    The Inspector Likes a Fight

    1 1957 HD

    To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an aircraft manufacturer and stealing the plans for a...

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  • 1960
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    Love and the Frenchwoman

    Love and the Frenchwoman

    4.9 1960 HD

    The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 -...

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  • 1954
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    The Contessa's Secret

    The Contessa's Secret

    1 1954 HD

    The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.

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  • 1961
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    The Black Monocle

    The Black Monocle

    5.9 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Je suis un mouchard

    Je suis un mouchard

    1 1953 HD

    Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with jealousy, is prepared to do everything to get rid of...

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  • 1963
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    Be Careful Ladies

    Be Careful Ladies

    5.667 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Bells Without Joy

    Bells Without Joy

    3.2 1962 HD

    In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis. A French squadron of chasseurs...

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  • 1976
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    The Education in Love of Valentin

    The Education in Love of Valentin

    5 1976 HD

    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. After a...

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  • 1948
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    Le Dessous des cartes

    Le Dessous des cartes

    5.5 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    Guinguette

    Guinguette

    6 1959 HD

    Renée dite Guinguette, a former prostitute, has earned enough money on the Parisian sidewalk to buy her dream: a waterfront guinguette. Her...

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  • 1941
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    Montmartre on the Seine

    Montmartre on the Seine

    6 1941 HD

    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. But...

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  • 1949
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    Last Hour, Special Edition

    Last Hour, Special Edition

    6 1949 HD

    A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of ​​launching an investigation into the death of a pianist...

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  • 1950
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    Agnes of Nothing

    Agnes of Nothing

    5.8 1950 HD

    Pushed by her husband to settle in the family castle, Agnès finds her sister-in-law Alix there. Her husband Carlos, often absent, loses...

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  • 1951
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    My Wife Is Formidable

    My Wife Is Formidable

    4.7 1951 HD

    Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not...

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  • 1941
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    Ne bougez plus !

    Ne bougez plus !

    1 1941 HD

    Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the fashionable photographer, the Prince Andromache of Miremir...

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  • 1947
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    Monsieur chasse

    Monsieur chasse

    1 1947 HD

    A husband covers his weekly infidelities with the pretext of hunting. His best friend intends to take advantage of the situation and makes an...

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  • 1961
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    The New Aristrocrats

    The New Aristrocrats

    1 1961 HD

    Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do parents and their superficial society firends and the...

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  • 1942
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    Love Marriage

    Love Marriage

    1 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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  • 1971
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    Samedi soir

    Samedi soir

    6 1971 HD

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