Released Date:
1968-09-26
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (2181 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ChabrolGenres:
DramaPaul Gègauff (scenario and dialogue)
Claude Chabrol (scenario and dialogue)
Frèdèrique is a rich and beautiful woman who picks up a female street artist called "Why". It is December and they go to her villa in Saint Tropez, which is inhabited by a couple of odd gay men. Both women fall for the local architect Paul Thomas. However Why says that she is not interested in him, so Frèdèrique invites him to move into the villa.
Released Date:
1971-12-19
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
GP
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (5144 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ChabrolGenres:
ThrillerButcher Popaul meets schoolteacher Helene at a wedding in a small rural French village. They become friends. But girls are murdered in the area and Helene finds at the scene the lighter she gave Popaul...
Released Date:
1969-11-10
Languages:
French
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
M
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (2737 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ChabrolCharles Desvallèes has good reasons to believe that his wife is cheating on him and hires a P.D. in order to prove himself right. Once he knows the lover is writer Victor Pègala, he drives to his apartment, calmly presents himself as the husband, starts a conversation and then kills him cold-bloodedly. The police trace the wife but when she discovers by accident a picture that could incriminate her husband she decides to remain silent.
Released Date:
1970-08-26
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy, Belgium
Runtime:
124 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (1092 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ChabrolGenres:
ThrillerCharlotte Armstrong (novel)
Claude Chabrol
Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia, who rarely wears clothes, plots to ruin Helene's reputation and then her very life.
Released Date:
1973-04-12
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (945 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ChabrolAeschylus (opening quotation)
Claude Chabrol
Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre's wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will "benefit the town", and wants Pierre's political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife's affair...
Released Date:
1977-12-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
123 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (969 Reviews)
Director:
Georges LautnerJean Laborde (novel)
Michel Audiard (dialogue)
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Marèchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
Released Date:
1978-10-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Canada
Runtime:
124 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (1245 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ChabrolOdile Barski (scenario)
Hervè Bromberger (scenario)
Frèdèric Grendel (scenario)
Odile Barski (adaptation)
Jean-Marie Fitère (based on the book by)
In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.
Released Date:
1980-05-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (472 Reviews)
Director:
Anthony HarveyGenres:
WesternMichael Syson (story)
John Briley (screenplay)
A white trapper steals a white mustang called Eagle Wing from a Kiowa Indian who pursues him to get his horse back.
Released Date:
1981-11-04
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (3427 Reviews)
Director:
Bertrand TavernierJean Aurenche
Bertrand Tavernier
Jim Thompson (novel)
1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a machiavellian exterminating angel.
Released Date:
1983-03-09
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1568 Reviews)
Director:
Claude MillerMichel Audiard (adaptation)
Jacques Audiard (adaptation)
Marc Behm (novel)
Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never approaches her directly, he follows her and increasingly feels to be telepathically connected to her, because she reminds him of his daughter he never met. After he led a blind artist, Catherine's truly beloved spouse, into a bus accident, she makes a living by bank robbery with young Betty till Betty gets shot. Alone again, Catherine leads a sad, uneventful life as a waitress, when she meets her follower.
Released Date:
1984-04-25
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (94 Reviews)
Director:
Samuel FullerOlivier Beer (novel)
Olivier Beer (adaptation)
Samuel Fuller (adaptation)
Anne Dutter (translation: French)
Georges Dutter (translation: French)
Released Date:
1988-03-04
Languages:
Danish, Swedish, French
Countries:
Denmark
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (12636 Reviews)
Director:
Gabriel AxelKaren Blixen (novel)
Gabriel Axel (screenplay)
In a remote 19th Danish century village two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: one could have married a young army officer and the other, a French opera singer. Their father objected in each case and they spent their lives caring for him. Many years later - their father is now deceased - they take in French refugee, Babette Hersant, who agrees to work as their servant. After winning the lottery, Babette wants to repay the sisters for their kindness and offers to cook a French meal for them and their friends on the 100th anniversary of their father's birth. It proves to be an eye-opening experience for everyone.
Released Date:
1993-10-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (909 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ChabrolGenres:
DramaClaude Chabrol
Georges Simenon (novel)
When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel lodgings, extends friendship and care, and listens to her story. Laure's lover, Mario, the proprietor of the bar where Betty and Laure met, is first a friend, then Betty's next conquest.
Released Date:
2008-08-20
Languages:
French, Italian, Russian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (1591 Reviews)
Director:
Anne FontaineBertrand Beauvois, a well-known attorney, is in Monte Carlo to defend a businessman's mother who murdered a gigolo with ties to gangsters. The businessman provides a bodyguard, Christophe, who is thorough and unsmiling. The middle-aged Beauvois is drawn to Audrey, in her 20s, free spirited, a local TV weather girl who once dated Christophe. Although Christophe warns Beauvois to stay away from Audrey, he's hooked and spends every moment with her he's not in court. What's her angle: is she a plant who'll ruin the case; is Beauvois her toy; is she digging for gold; or, is she genuine? Beauvois loves the wild sex but not her promiscuity. Has Christophe failed to protect him?
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