Cinematography: Jean-Paul Meurisse

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Jean-Paul Meurisse. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Atlantic Man

1981 · Movie · 45 min. · France

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Yann Andréa · Marguerite Duras

Plot Duras based the short feature L'Homme atlantique not on one of her written works but on her own film, Agatha, using outtakes from that film to push her image/sound experiment...

7.5

35 votes

7.5

35 votes

Agatha et les lectures illimitées

1981 · Movie · 90 min. · France

7.3

97 votes

7.3

97 votes

Zentropa (Europa)

1991 · Movie · 114 min. · Denmark

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Jean-Marc Barr · Barbara Sukowa · Udo Kier · Ernst-Hugo Järegård

Plot An American of German descent arrives in post-war Germany 1945. His uncle gets him a job on the Zentropa train line as a sleeping car conductor. The American's wish is...

7.3

10K votes

7.3

10K votes

Uneasy Riders

2000 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Sinapi

Cast Olivier Gourmet · Nadia Kaci · Lionel Abelanski · Saïd Taghmaoui

Plot When an intelligent handicapped patient gets his social worker, Julie, to drive him out to Nationale 7 road so that he can have sex with a prostitute, other inmates decide...

7.0

406 votes

7.0

406 votes

Himalaya

1999 · Movie · 108 min. · Nepal

Direction Eric Valli

Cast Thilen Lhondup · Gurgon Kyap · Lhakpa Tsamchoe · Karma Wangel

Plot An aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Kini and Adams

1997 · Movie · 93 min. · Burkina Faso

Direction Idrissa Ouedraogo

Cast Vusi Kunene · David Mohloki · Nthati Moshesh · John Kani

Plot Somewhere in southern Africa, in a huge region populated by poor peasants, two friends dream of a better life, far from their village, and decide to leave and make their...

5.9

57 votes

5.9

57 votes

Hyena

1994 · Movie · 86 min. · Burkina Faso

Direction Idrissa Ouedraogo

Cast Richard Bohringer · Saïd Diarra · Félicité Wouassi · Alex Descas

Plot Moktar lives in Africa with his mother, Saffi. He has never left the village. His father, who left for France a long time ago, finally sends for them. The boy...

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1789

1974 · Documentary · 155 min. · France

Direction Ariane Mnouchkine

Plot Documentary about the play 1789 by Theatre du Soleil at La Cartoucherie de Vincennes

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Winds of Sand, Women of Rock

2009 · Documentary · 90 min. · Belgium

Direction Nathalie Borgers

Plot This may be the last journey of Domagali, Amina and Hanne and their Toubou women's caravan in the Sahara. Each fall, armed with daggers, they leave the men behind and...

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Le rose et le blanc

1982 · Movie · 100 min. · France

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