Films with: Meurisse, Paul

Armée des ombres Army of shadows /

A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp.

DVD 4799

Deuxième souffle Second wind /

A French criminal, recently escaped from prison and trying to pull off a robbery, finds himself being chased by an inspector.

DVD 5966

Diabolique

The sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school brutalizes his fragil wife and his headstrong mistress. The two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, no body is found.

DVD 1769

Diaboliques The devils /

Horror classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.

DVD 760

Vérité

Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominate film delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.

DVD 13012