Screenplay: Claude Chabrol

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Sandrine Bonnaire · Jacqueline Bisset · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Plot Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean Yanne · Michel Duchaussoy · Caroline Cellier · Maurice Pialat

Plot When his son is killed in a hit and run incident, Charles vows to bring the driver to justice. Having met Paul, whom he thinks to be responsible for the...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Stéphane Audran · Michel Bouquet · Maurice Ronet · Michel Duchaussoy

Plot Charles Desvallées 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...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Henri Attal · Stéphane Audran · Michel Bouquet · Jean Carmet

Plot Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · François Cluzet · Marie Trintignant · Nils Tavernier

Plot During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat. She is Marie Latour. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean Yanne · Stéphane Audran · Antonio Passalia · William Guérault

Plot Very little happens, and all of the sordid criminal events take place off screen in Claude Chabrol's exquisitely detached and austerely abstract murder mystery set in the Perigord region of...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jacques Charrier · Stéphane Audran · Walther Reyer · Erika Tweer

Plot André Mercier, a journalist known as Albin Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer. Sent to cover an event in Germany, he gets to know Andreas Hartmann, another writer who, for...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Emmanuelle Béart · François Cluzet · Nathalie Cardone · André Wilms

Plot Paul has finally managed to buy the hotel that he has always dreamed of owning but he's also taken out an awful lot of loans to cover the costs of...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Gérard Blain · Jean-Claude Brialy · Juliette Mayniel · Guy Decomble

Plot Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Virginie Vitry · Jacques Doniol-Valcroze · Jean-Claude Brialy · Anne Doat

Plot This short by Jacques Rivette is often cited as the first film of the French New Wave. It was co-written by Claude Chabrol, Jean-Marie Straub was the assistant director and...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Gérard Blain · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michèle Méritz · Bernadette Lafont

Plot François comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. He notices that the village hasn't changed much, but the people have, especially his old friend...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Bernadette Lafont · Clotilde Joano · Stéphane Audran · Lucile Saint-Simon

Plot Four attractive young women who work together in a shop try to escape the monotony of their uneventful lives by partying and chasing after men. Ginette has ambitions of starting...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Jacques Gamblin · Antoine de Caunes · Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Plot In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Michel Serrault · Charles Aznavour · Aurore Clément · François Cluzet

Plot In a small provincial French town, there has been a series of murders of middle-aged women. An Armenian immigrant tailor suspects that the murderer is a highly respectable citizen in...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Benoît Magimel · Laura Smet · Aurore Clément · Bernard Le Coq

Plot A middle class family in Loire, where things seem just a tad off kilter. Philippe (Benoît Magimel) dotes on his mother, who has raised his two sisters and him. Gérard,...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Stéphane Audran · Michel Piccoli · Claude Piéplu · Clotilde Joano

Direction Éric Rohmer · Claude Chabrol · Jean-Luc Godard · Jean Douchet

Cast Jean-Pierre Andréani · Stéphane Audran · Nadine Ballot · Claude Chabrol

Plot This collection features six major French New Wave directors working at the top of their collective game to create a beautiful record of Paris in the ’60s. Each filmmaker took...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Philippe Noiret · Robin Renucci · Bernadette Lafont · Monique Chaumette

Plot Christian Legagneur (Philippe Noiret) is a fabulously successful gameshow host who makes his living presenting softhearted fantasies for aged couples. He engages a writer, Roland Wolf (Robin Renucci), to commemorate...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean Seberg · Maurice Ronet · Daniel Gélin · Jacques Perrin

Plot 1941. A little town in the Jura is cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the free zone.

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Jacques Dutronc · Anna Mouglalis · Rodolphe Pauly

Plot Huppert plays Mika, wife of celebrated pianist Andre Polonski (Jacques Dutronc) and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives...