Direction: Claude Chabrol

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean Poiret · Stéphane Audran · Michel Bouquet · Jean Topart

Synopsis When a small town begins losing its citizenry in a series of grisly murders, out-of-town police inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is sent to investigate. Could the killers be a bullied son (Lucas Belvaux) and his cruel mother (Stephane Audran)...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Stéphane Audran · Jean Carmet · Jean-François Garreaud

Synopsis In 1930s Paris, seemingly innocent 18-year-old Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert) spends her nights seducing older men. When her current lover needs money, the troubled Violette plots to murder her dispassionate middle-class parents (Stéphane Audran & Jean Carmet) to help him...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jacqueline Sassard · Stéphane Audran · Nane Germon

Synopsis Bored, wealthy Parisian socialite Frédérique picks up young sidewalk artist Why, brings her home, offers her a nice hot bath and coffee, and seduces her. Then Why follows Frédérique to the latter's Saint-Tropez villa, where they alter their sensuous encounters...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Michel Serrault · François Cluzet · Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Madeleine Robinson · Antonella Lualdi · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jacques Dacqmine

Synopsis The Marcoux family lives in a country home, supported by their vineyard. Father Henri possesses a roving eye, and spends more time with their attractive neighbor, Léda, than his family. His wife, Thérèse, simmers with jealousy and seizes upon the...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Stéphane Audran · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Michel Bouquet · Annie Cordy

Synopsis Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their son. She stays in a run-down hotel whilst her injured son convalesces in hospital and files for divorce. Charles’ bourgeois parents are determined that Hélène loses...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Romy Schneider · Rod Steiger · François Maistre · Paolo Giusti

Synopsis Saint Tropez, France. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Nathalie Baye · Benoît Magimel · Bernard Le Coq · Suzanne Flon

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Marie Trintignant · Stéphane Audran · Jean-François Garreaud · Yves Lambrecht

Synopsis Alone and drunk, Betty, is led to a Paris restaurant by a stranger. Here, she meets an older woman, Laure, with whom she strikes up an instant rapport. The two women seem to have suffered the same lot in their...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Jean-François Balmer · Christophe Malavoy · Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis The luminous Isabelle Huppert stars as the ill-fated heroine in this latest version of Gustave Flaubert's l classic French Novel. Huppert is Emma Bovary, the dissatisfied wife of the country doctor, who longs to be part of the French high...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jacques Dufilho · Bernardette Le Saché · François Cluzet · Arnel Hubert

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Sylvia Kristel · Charles Vanel · André Dussollier · Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis While leaving her husband, whom she now detests, Alice (Sylvia Kristel) drives into the countryside but must stop at an old house when her windshield cracks mysteriously. She is received at the house as if expected, and spends the night...

Direction Philippe de Broca · Claude Chabrol · Jacques Demy · Sylvain Dhomme

Cast Jacques Charrier · Marie-José Nat · Eddie Constantine · Nicole Mirel

Synopsis Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film.

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean-Claude Brialy · Bernadette Lafont · Charles Belmont · André Jocelyn

Synopsis Roland, an idler living on the Left Bank in Paris, is determined to inflict a terrible revenge on his friend Arthur, after the latter subjected him to a harmless joke. He engages the services of the seductive Ambroisine, who pretends...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean Poiret · Jean-Claude Brialy · Bernadette Lafont · Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Michèle Morgan · Danielle Darrieux · Hildegard Knef · Juliette Mayniel

Synopsis France, WWI. Landru, the father of four Children, contacts Parisian women through newspapers, seduces and eventually kills them in order to feed his little family.

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · François Berléand · Patrick Bruel · Thomas Chabrol

Synopsis Magistrate Jeanne Charmant has been assigned an extremely complex case involving the misappropriation of public monies. The charges are being brought against the chairperson of a powerful industrial firm. The more her inquiry progresses, the more the magistrate begins to...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Alida Valli · Claude Cerval · André Jocelyn · Juliette Mayniel

Synopsis It is the grim story of a young man who gets Shakespearean-style revenge against the uncle who married the young fellow's mother...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Orson Welles · Marlène Jobert · Anthony Perkins · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis In this ponderous French mystery-drama, based on an Ellery Queen story, blackmail would seem to be the least of the problems of Charles (Anthony Perkins). His adoptive father Theo (Orson Welles) has a madwoman for a mother, and a gorgeous...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Christophe Malavoy · Mathilda May · Jacques Penot · Virginie Thévenet

Synopsis Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife, Véronique, herself newly engaged. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She...