Paul Meurisse’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Paul Meurisse has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Diabolique.
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High and Low
1963
Drama · Crime

The Bad Sleep Well
1960
Crime · Drama

Victim
1961
Drama · Crime

Seven Days in May
1964
Drama · Thriller

The Chase
1966
Crime · Drama

Hands Over the City
1963
Drama

Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
Drama · History

In Cold Blood
1967
Crime · Drama

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.
Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot · With Véra Clouzot, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse

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.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · With Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · With Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin

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.
Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot · With Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey, Charles Vanel
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