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Claude Chabrol - what members say


  • Blood Relatives
  • Blood Relatives review by Grassmarket from Lothian
    Rated - 2 stars Little-seen film, for Chabrol completists only 22 June 2004
    ...Disappointing considering the names involved - Claude Chabrol, one of France's best directors of crime films, from a novel by Ed McBain, one of the US's best writers of polic...  
  • Le Boucher
  • Le Boucher review by Grizzlybear from Swindon, England
    Rated - 4 stars Worth a Butchers! 2 November 2005
    ...Claude Chabrol's tale of the nascent love affair between a lonely butcher (Michel Bouquet)and schoolmistress (Stephane Audran)in a village under the shadow of a serial killer...  
  • The Bridesmaid
  • The Bridesmaid review by Thomas Savage from London, England
    Rated - 3 stars Late period Chabrol, but rather good 29 December 2007
    ...It's been a long time since Claude Chabrol made a really good film - in fact, the last one might have been when he adapted Ruth Rendell for 'La ceremonie'. Here he is having...  

Claude Chabrol - filmography


  • Girl Cut in Two (2009)
    Starring: Ludivine Sagnier,  Benoit Magimel,  François Berléand
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: TBC
    Gabrielle Deneige is an independent, ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor. An unspoken past between the two men heightens tensions, and though she's initially ..read more »
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  • L'Enfer on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Emmanuelle Beart,  Francois Cluzet,  Andre Wilms
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: 15
    Claude Chabrol's L'ENFER is the story of a good marriage that turns sour when obsessive jealousy takes hold of a loving husband, turning him into a violent, paranoid tyrant. In this tense and riveting drama, originally written by master French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (LES DIABOLIQUES), Paul (..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 61% from 617 members
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  • Story of Women (1988)
    Starring: Isabelle Huppert,  Francois Cluzet,  Nils Tavernier
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: TBC
    Marie Latour (Isabelle Huppert) wants to be a singer, but she is a woman struggling against poverty in war-torn France, with two children to feed and a husband away fighting. When a neighbor becomes pregnant, Marie performs an abortion and is rewarded for her services with a Victrola. It's a small ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 54% from 15 members
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  • Cry of the Owl (1987)
    Starring: Henri Attal,  Mathilda May
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: TBC
    A peeping tom comes face to face with the object of his obsession, only to find her even more dangerously dysfunctional than himself. Four unstable individuals converge as a doomed love triangle devolves into violence...
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 15 members
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  • Nada on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Fabio Testi,  Lou Castel,  Mariangelo Melato
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: 15
    When a small French terrorist group kidnaps an American ambassador and holds him to ransom, the police are quick to action. However, it soon becomes apparent that their chief concern is not the safe return of the hostage, but rather the absolute elimination of the terrorists...
    Rate this: 3.0 57% from 157 members
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  • Le Boucher on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Stephane Audran,  Jean Yanne,  Antonio Passalia
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: 15
    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 centre of the intrigue is Chabrol's frequent collaborator and wife, Stephane Audran, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 260 members
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  • Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
    Starring: Bernadette Lafont,  Clotilde Joano,  Stephane Audran
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: PG
    The dull lives and lofty bourgeois aspirations of four Parisian shop girls serves as the point of departure for Claude Chabrol's haunting French New Wave classic, LES BONNES FEMMES. As the girls count the minutes until their working shift ends, they gossip and contemplate their prospects for ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 14 members
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Claude Chabrol - downloads


  • A Piece Of Pleasure for Download (1974)
    Starring: Daniele Gegauff,  Michel Valette,  Paul Gegauff
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: 15
    Rent from: £2.99
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    Run time: 101 minutes
    One of Chabrol's most maligned films. A cool and elegiac study of the canker destroying a family from within, it is given bizarre overtones - part confession, part game - as well as a peculiar poignancy by the fact that the script is modelled by Chabrol's regular scriptwriter Paul Gégauff, who ..read more »
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  • Whos Got The Black Box for Download (1969)
    Starring: Jean Seberg,  Maurice Ronet
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: 12
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    Run time: 90 minutes
    When US radar installations in Greece are jammed and an undercover NATO security man is killed, suspicion falls on his widow, who sets out to find the real culprits and prove herself innocent.
    Rate this: 1.5 30% from 1 members
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Claude Chabrol facts

5 most recent films


Girl Cut in Two - 3 stars
Comedy Of Power - 3.0 stars
Merci Pour Le Chocolat - 3.0 stars
Rien Ne Va Plus - 3.0 stars
La Ceremonie - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Que La Bete Meure - 3.5 stars
Le Boucher - 3.5 stars
A Double Tour - 3.0 stars
Juste Avant La Nuit - 3.0 stars
Les Noces Rouges - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Six in Paris - 3 stars
Girl Cut in Two - 3 stars
Story of Women - 3.0 stars
Cry of the Owl - 3.0 stars
Les Bonnes Femmes - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Stephane Audran - 10 times - show films
Isabelle Huppert - 6 times - show films
Michel Duchaussoy - 3 times - show films
Jean-Pierre Cassel - 3 times - show films
Francois Cluzet - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Jean Douchet - 2 times - show films
Jean-Luc Godard - 2 times - show films