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Claude Chabrol

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Le Beau Serge Le Beau Serge (1958)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Blain
Accepted as the first film of the French New Wave, this Claude Chabrol drama tells the story of a man returning to his hometown only to discover his…
Les Cousins Les Cousins (1959)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Blain
Claude Chabrol continues his city / country theme from LE BEAU SERGE with this estranging drama following a country boy who ends up in a despicable…
Les Bonnes FemmesLes Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stephane Audran
An early comedy from French new wave director Claude Chabrol (LE BOUCHER), following four single Parisian women as they encounter the romantic…
Paris vu parParis vu par (Six in Paris) (1965)
Dir. Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol
Passionate, parochial anthology of New Wave shorts from six of France's best: Godard, Chabrol and Rohmer headline a concoction of Parisian sketches…
Champagne Murders, TheChampagne Murders, The (Le scandale) (1967)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux
Claude Chabrol transitions into his revered period of thrillers with this potboiler about a champagne tycoon's partner who suspects his partner's…
Les BichesLes Biches (Bad Girls) (1968)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stephane Audran
A love–triangle between an heiress, an architect and a young woman, is tested to unsettling effect in this psychological drama. Chabrol…
Claude Chabrol Boxset Vol. 1Claude Chabrol Boxset Vol. 1 (Les Biches, Le Boucher, Que La Bete Meure, La Femme Infidele) (1968-1969)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Four classic films from the French master of suspense's late sixties output. Also includes the documentary GRAND MANEGE: THE LIFE AND WORK OF CLAUDE…
Boucher, LeBoucher, Le (The Butcher) (1969) Recommended
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne
Psychological thriller probes the perhaps dangerous liaison between a celibate school–teacher and a murder suspect, the local butcher. Rich in…
Femme Infidele, LaFemme Infidele, La (The Unfaithful Wife) (1969)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Michel Bouquet, Stephane Audran, Maurice Ronet
French bourgeoisie couple Michel Bouquet and Stephane Audran form a murderous love–triangle with seducer Maurice Ronet, revealing the hidden…
Que La Bete MeureQue La Bete Meure (This Man Must Die) (1969)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Michel Duchaussoy, Jean Yanne, Caroline Cellier
Thriller based on the book called The Beast Must Die by Cecil Day–Lewis (under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake), about a man who becomes involved…
La RuptureLa Rupture (The Breach) (1970)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Claude Drouot
Stéphane Audran plays a good mother with a chequered past who divorces her deadbeat husband and is targeted by her aggrieved in–laws. In a bit…
MasquesMasques (1987)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Bernadette Lafont
Showbiz thriller with an offbeat setting and treatment typical of the director. Phillip Noiret excels as a vain and complacent TV celebrity, with…
Cry of the Owl, TheCry of the Owl, The (Le Cri du hibou) (1987)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Christophe Malavoy, Mathilda May, Jacques Penot
Rich adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel from New Wave director Claude Chabrol, who probes the mind of a troubled artist obsessed with his…
Une Affair Des Femmes (a Story of Women)Une Affair Des Femmes (a Story of Women) (1988)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Francois Cluzet
Traumatic, gripping fact–based story about the last woman to be guillotined in France. Isabelle Huppert is in feverish form as the woman both…
Club ExtinctionClub Extinction (Dr. M) (1989)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas
Chabrol’s re–examination of Fritz Lang’s DR MABUSE is set in a future Berlin saturated with Big Brother messages and a plague of…
Madame BovaryMadame Bovary (1991)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy
Chabrol remains faithful to the text of this oft–filmed classic of French literature, with Isabelle Huppert bringing a glacial refinement to…
Quiet Days in ClichyQuiet Days in Clichy (1992)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Nigel Havers, Andrew McCarthy
From Henry Miller's novel, Nigel Havers and Andrew McCarthy are hedonistic literary foreigners cavorting in turn–of–the–century…
Torment (L'Enfer)Torment (L'Enfer) (1994)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Francois Cluzet
Based on an unproduced H.R. Clouzot screenplay from the 1950s, and not quite up to the standard of its follow–up, A JUDGEMENT IN STONE, but a…
La CeremonieLa Ceremonie (Judgement in Stone, A) (1995) Recommended
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset
Veteran new–wave director Chabrol takes this HEAVENLY CREATURES–ish tale of the unholy synergy between two women, adds some class theory,…
Merci Pour Le ChocolatMerci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001) Recommended
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert
Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…

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