Claude Chabrol
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
The latest thriller from French New Wave veteran Claude Chabrol opens with a tongue-in-cheek claim that it does not depict real events, even though it's timely and provocative account of corporate and political corruption was inspired by a real-life scandal involving a French oil giant and several top-level politicians. The stunning and accomplished Isabelle Huppert (I heart huckabees) stars as Jeanne, a tenacious magistrate known as "the piranha"...
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
Français
Description
INSPECTOR LAVARDIN investigates on the murder of a famous writer, whose widow happens to be Helen, a woman Lavardin once loved. She has a daughter from a first marriage, who actually killed her stepfather, as he was trying to abuse her. Uncovering the true story, Lavardin finds another convict with Max Charmet, procurer and drug dealer.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
The lives of Mika and her husband, celebrated pianist Andre Polonski, are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned that she almost had been switched at birth with Polonski₂s son in the hospital. Also a pianist, Jeanne speculates that she may be Andre's daughter. Her suspicions further aroused by Mika₂s behavior, Jeanne begins the dangerous task of unraveling a dark web of family secrets and lies.
4) The Swindle
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
Français
Description
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 that money.
5) The Torment
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
Français
Description
Paul has just bought a charming waterfront hotel in the heart of France. In debt for the next ten years, he sets to work with his beautiful new wife, Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart). The life of the young couple is a dream come true. Paul, however, becomes increasingly irritated and high strung. He starts taking sleeping pills and is aware of a voice in his head expressing doubts. As the tension rises, Paul becomes more and more suspicious and violent.
6) Nightcap
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Français
Description
André Polonski, a virtuoso pianist, and Mika marry for the second time in Lausanne, years after their first, very brief union. In the meantime, André had married Lisbeth who gave him a son, Guillaume. On the day of his sixth birthday, while the family was staying with Mika in Switzerland, Lisbeth died in a car accident. Young Jeanne, who is preparing the Budapest piano competition, happens to learn that she was almost switched on the day of her...
7) Betty
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
Français
Description
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Maigret author Georges Simenon, BETTY is a scathing attack on the upper-middle classes, featuring an extraordinary performance by Marie Trintignant as a woman spiraling into alcoholism, but fighting to redefine herself.
9) La ceremonie
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
The crowning achievement of Claude Chabrol's career is a riveting study of class dynamics and the psychology of crime, starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire as a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious alliance that gradually goes haywire.
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
In a little village in Brittany, a 10 year old girl is found assassinated. René, an artist by profession and the girl's art teacher, is the last person to have seen her. He is immediately questioned by the police inspector in charge of the enquiry. In this little provincial village where everyone knows one another and where everyone regularly gathers at the 'Bar des Amis', René is increasingly destabilised by the suspicion placed upon him by the...
11) Les cousins
Series
Criterion collection volume 581
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins recasts that film's stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gřard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles....
12) The Third Lover
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
Français
Description
An often-overlooked film from the early career of prolific French director Claude Chabrol (*The Swindle*), THE THIRD LOVER follows Albin Mercier, a failed journalist, is writing an article in Germany. When he meets a couple who seem very close, he becomes jealous and sets out to destroy their relationship. He discovers that the young woman has a lover and blackmails her emotionally. The restored version of the film was an Official Selection at the...
13) Blue Panther
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Before he is murdered, a spy passes on a jewel to the attractive Marie-Chantal. From then on, she is hunted by Russian and American spies and above all by the sinister Dr. Kha. Paco, a Spaniard, comes to her aid and rescues her from the most terrifying situations.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
"Follows a successful yet sickly young man who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend--now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic--and the provincial life he represents"--Container.
15) Bluebeard
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Français
Description
Set at the beginning of this century, this true story is about Landru, a small clerk who puts matrimonial ads in the paper for moneyed, single women without families. He meets them, seduces them, asks them to come to his home in the town of Gambais, there he kills them after they have signed over all their wealth to him. Suspicious neighbors alert the police and Landru is finally arrested and guillotined.
16) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Deutsch
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929.
Series
Criterion collection volume 802
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
The film follows a young literature student who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twenty-somethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance. Suspicious of the death, she investigates to see if conspiracy was involved.
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