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A Bout De Souffle aka Breathless (1960) FR #831 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France | English, French
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Director Jean-Luc Godard
Writer Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois 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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Le Boucher aka The Butcher (1970) FR #3130 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France, Italy | French
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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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La Ceremonie aka The Ceremony (1995) FR #3827 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Germany | French
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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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Que La Bete Meure aka This Man Must Die (1969) FR #4367 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French, Japanese
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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) FR #4373 | Movie | History, Drama | France | French, German
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Director Claude Chabrol
Writer Colo Tavernier, Claude Chabrol, Francis Szpiner
Cast Isabelle Huppert, Francois 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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Editorial Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Claude Chabrol collects the writer’s most important, popular and top regarded work. This list is built from the cataogue of 25000 core titles provided on FlickRatings, and showcases most important movies and TV shows as ordered by our score generated using public metadata. Combine this with our weekly updated OTT information to shortlist your next watch.
