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A bout de souffle aka Breathless (1960)
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Director Jean-Luc Godard
Writer Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Frana§ois Truffaut
Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Richard Balducci
Plot A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
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La ceremonie aka The Ceremony (1995)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Ruth Rendell, Claude Chabrol, Caroline Eliacheff
Cast Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset
Plot A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.
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Le boucher aka The Butcher (1970)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Claude Chabrol
Cast Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia
Plot An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
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Que la bete meure aka This Man Must Die (1969)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Paul Gegauff, Claude Chabrol, Cecil Day-Lewis
Cast Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne
Plot A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son's death.
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Une affaire de femmes aka Story of Women (1988)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Colo Tavernier, Claude Chabrol, Francis Szpiner
Cast Isabelle Huppert, Frana§ois Cluzet, Marie Trintignant
Plot A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
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La femme infidele aka The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Claude Chabrol, Sauro Scavolini
Cast Stephane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet
Plot A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.
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Le beau Serge (1958)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Claude Chabrol
Cast Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michele Meritz
Plot After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
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Les cousins aka The Cousins (1959)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Claude Chabrol, Paul Gegauff
Cast Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel
Plot A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.
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Les bonnes femmes aka The Good Time Girls (1960)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Paul Gegauff, Claude Chabrol
Cast Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stephane Audran
Plot Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams but often find real-life to be inescapable.
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Les biches (1968)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Paul Gegauff, Claude Chabrol
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stephane Audran
Plot Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St. Tropez villa with tragic consequences.
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L'enfer aka Hell (1994)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Claude Chabrol, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Ferry
Cast Emmanuelle Beart, Frana§ois Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone
Plot Paul and Nelly have everything to be happy: a dream wedding and a hotel. Until Paul starts to doubt Nelly.
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Unfaithful (2002)
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Director Adrian Lyne
Writer Claude Chabrol, Alvin Sargent, William Broyles Jr.
Cast Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez
Plot A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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A double tour aka Web of Passion (1959)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Stanley Ellin, Paul Gegauff, Claude Chabrol
Cast Madeleine Robinson, Antonella Lualdi, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Plot A wealthy wine grower has trouble with his wife, his children, his best friend, and his mistress across the way, who is murdered.
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Juste avant la nuit aka Just Before Nightfall (1971)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Claude Chabrol, Edouard Atiyah
Cast Celia, Marina Ninchi, Michel Bouquet
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 goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of t...
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Paris vu par... aka Six in Paris (1965)
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Director Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard
Writer Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Jean-Pierre Andreani, Stephane Audran, Nadine Ballot
Plot Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitut...
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Merci pour le chocolat aka Nightcap (2000)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Caroline Eliacheff, Claude Chabrol, Charlotte Armstrong
Cast Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
Plot In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski th...
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Le coup du berger aka Fool's Mate (1956)
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Director Jacques Rivette
Writer Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, Charles L. Bitsch
Cast Virginie Vitry, Anne Doat, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Plot When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat's true origins.
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L'oeil du malin aka The Third Lover (1962)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Claude Chabrol, Martial Matthieu, Paul Gegauff
Cast Jacques Charrier, Stephane Audran, Walther Reyer
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 his part, has not... failed. The successful Andreas i...
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La ligne de demarcation aka Line of Demarcation (1966)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Claude Chabrol, Colonel Remy
Cast Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Daniel Gelin
Plot 1941. A little town in the Jura is cut in half by a river that forms the border between German-occupied France and the free zone.
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La rupture aka The Breach (1970)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Charlotte Armstrong, Claude Chabrol
Cast Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet
Plot A father injures his son. He moves in with parents who blame the child's mother. They hire someone to find info about her for an upcoming custody hearing. He and girlfriend secretly lodge at her boarding home to undermine her life.
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Les noces rouges aka Wedding in Blood (1973)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Claude Chabrol, Aeschylus
Cast Stephane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Pieplu
Plot In a small French town, the mayor discovers his wife is cheating on him, a betrayal that eventually leads to murder.
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Les innocents aux mains sales aka Dirty Hands (1975)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Richard Neely, Claude Chabrol
Cast Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, Frana§ois Maistre
Plot Saint Tropez, 1975. Julie Wormser and her neighbour Jeff Marle, a writer, are lovers. They plan the assassination of Julie's wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits Louis, and leaves the rest of the task to J...
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Madame Bovary (1991)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Gustave Flaubert, Claude Chabrol
Cast Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Frana§ois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy
Plot In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.
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Poulet au vinaigre aka Cop Au Vin (1985)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Dominique Roulet, Claude Chabrol
Cast Jean Poiret, Stephane Audran, Michel Bouquet
Plot In a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of...
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Masques aka Masks (1987)
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Odile Barski, Claude Chabrol
Cast Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci, Bernadette Lafont
Plot Hired to write a biography of a television personality, a reporter spends a few days at the man's country estate with the eccentric extended family.
