Soundtrack: Pierre Jansen

Direction Claude Chabrol

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

Synopsis 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 death, Charles infiltrates his family and plans his revenge...

Direction Claude Chabrol

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

Synopsis 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 writer Victor Pégala, he drives to his apartment, calmly presents...

Direction Claude Chabrol

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

Synopsis 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 goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed...

Direction Claude Chabrol

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

Synopsis 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 central France. At the center of the intrigue is Chabrol's...

Direction Claude Goretta

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Yves Beneyton · Florence Giorgetti · Annemarie Düringer

Synopsis During a visit to a Normandy seaside resort with her friend, Marylene, a fragile and solitary young woman named Béatrice is befriended by an arts student, François. Despite their intellectual and class differences, the couple fall in love and share...

Direction Claude Chabrol

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

Synopsis 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 his part, has not... failed. The successful Andreas is married...

Direction Jean Painlevé · Geneviève Hamon

Direction Claude Chabrol

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

Synopsis 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 a career as a singer, Rita is engaged to her...

Direction Claude Chabrol

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

Direction Claude Chabrol

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

Synopsis 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 Pierre Schoendoerffer

Cast Jacques Perrin · Bruno Cremer · Pierre Fabre · Manuel Zarzo

Synopsis In Vietnam, 1954, a French platoon isolated behind enemy lines tries to come back. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Werhmacht.

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 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 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 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.