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Claude Chabrol
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Claude Chabrol - what members say
review by from Swindon, England
Worth a Butchers! 2 November 2005
review by A customer from North Cornelly, South Wales.
Cars... Aix-en-Provence...Flock Wallpaper...Pretention..Wonderful 3 July 2007
review by Cirsh from Hebden Bridge
At the heart of the Lie 5 August 2010
Claude Chabrol - filmography
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The Girl Cut in Two
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Gabrielle has a high profile job presenting the weather on French TV. Despite Gabrielle's staunch work ethic, she values her privacy over her professional career and lives in a modest house with her aging mother. One day, renowned author Charles Saint-Denis is interviewed at the television station ..read more »
 
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from 994 members
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Bellamy
(2009)
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Marie Bunel, Clovis Cornillac
Director: Claude Chabrol
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As each year, commissioner Paul Bellamy stay in Nemes in the family home with his wife Francoise. She has a dream : a cruise to the end of the world but Paul hates travelling. A double pretext will spot and save him : the unexpected arrival of Jacques his half-brother, and the appeareance of a ..read more »
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from 14 members
Currently unavailable
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Comedy Of Power
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Patrick Bruel
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Claude Chabrol's Comedy of Power stars Isabelle Huppert as a French judge who attempts to bring down the very powerful but corrupt CEO of a large corporation. As she digs deeper into the case, she uncovers criminal activity that stretches into the highest levels of government, and her life is ..read more »
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from 886 members
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The Bridesmaid
(2004)
Starring: Benoit Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clement
Director: Claude Chabrol
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It's love at first sight when bridesmaid Senta falls into the life of a handsome young Phillipe at the wedding of his younger sister. As their passion for one another intensifies, Phillipe slowly discovers that Senta is shrouded in mystery.When one day she asks Phillipe to performa a terrible deed ..read more »
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from 285 members
Not currently released
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Merci Pour Le Chocolat
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Robin
Director: Claude Chabrol
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A mystery set in the environs of Lausanne concerning several plots which wind their way through the elegant homesteads of a couple of well-heeled French-Swiss denizens. Mika is the couture-attired, oh-so-perfect head of Muller Chocolates--a company that manufactures Swiss chocolates. Andre is her ..read more »
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from 1,746 member
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The Colour Of Lies
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Jean Rochefort
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi stars as a Lesage, a police inspector on the hunt for a young girl's murderer in a small Brittany town. The prime suspect is the last person to have seen her alive, artist René (Jacques Gamblin), but the course of her investigations also brings her into contact with his ..read more »
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from 87 members
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Rien Ne Va Plus
(1997)
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, Francois Cluzet
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Claude Chabrol's 50th feature is a darkly comic crime-caper that twists and turns into an unsettling climax. Betty and Victor are a couple of con-artists, who usually prey on hapless businessmen and convention guests. They're strictly small-time until they meet Maurice, a crime syndicate's courier ..read more »
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from 1,194 member
Not currently released
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La Ceremonie
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Adapted from Ruth Rendell's chilling novel La Ceremonie is one of Claude Chabrol's most celebrated and unforgettable films. Wealthy family the Lelivres have taken on the extremely efficient but strangely detached Sophie as their live-in maid. Her free time is spent alone in her room until she meets ..read more »
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from 1,693 member
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La Ceremonie - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire
Director: Claude Chabrol
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In Claude Chabrol's LA CEREMONIE, the wealthy Lelievre family live in a grand estate in the calm isolation of the French countryside. All that lacks in their lustrous lifestyle is the perfect maid, who they believe to have found in the shy and recalcitrant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). The match ..read more »
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from 3 members
Due for release on 23rd July 2012
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L'Enfer
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Francois Cluzet, Andre Wilms
Director: Claude Chabrol
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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 »
58%
from 2,478 members
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Madame Bovary
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Claude Chabrol's lifelong interest in the psychological lives of women finds a perfect vehicle in Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel, MADAME BOVARY. Isabelle Hupert, Chabrol's frequent collaborator and muse, brings a detached and icy intensity to her portrayal of Emma, an ambitious farmer's daughter ..read more »
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from 1,205 member
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Dr. M
(1990)
Starring: Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Noted French director Claude Chabrol helmed this oddity, a remake of German director Fritz Lang's 1922 classic Dr. Mabuse. The film features an all-star international cast as it tells the futuristic horror story of a bizarre epidemic which has swept West Berlin leaving a grim trail of grisly ..read more »
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from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Story of Women
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier
Director: Claude Chabrol
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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 »
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from 173 members
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Cry of the Owl
(1987)
Starring: Henri Attal, Mathilda May
Director: Claude Chabrol
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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...
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from 18 members
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Masks
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Anne Brochet, Jean Rochefort
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Chabrol's mystery thriller centres on the investigation a by writer, Roland Wolf (Robin Renucci), into the unsolved murder of his sister. His quest leads him to the door of TV show host Legagneur (Philippe Noiret) whose affable public persona may conceal some rather more unpleasant qualities. As he ..read more »
64%
from 59 members
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Blood of Others
(1984)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill
Director: Claude Chabrol
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WWII. In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
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from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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Nada
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Fabio Testi, Lou Castel, Mariangelo Melato
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Also known as Nada, The Nada Gang is a lesser effort from director Claude Chabrol. A group of European terrorists calling themselves the Nada kidnaps an American ambassador. Their hideout is besieged by a sadistic police official and his minions. Thanks to the official's eagerness to pull the ..read more »
58%
from 245 members
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Les Noces Rouges
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Stephane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Pieplu
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Paul, the mayor of the town, is unaware that his wife and vice-mayor are having an affair. When the vice-mayor's wife suddenly dies in an apparent suicide, the people of the town are suspicious, and it is not long before Paul becomes aware of his wife's illict activities...
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from 317 members
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Juste Avant La Nuit
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Francois Perier
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Despite being married with children himself, Charles Masson is having a passionate affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend. His world soon comes crushing down around him when their illicit activities lead to the accidental death of Laura.
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from 496 members
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Ten Days Wonder
(1971)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Michel Piccoli, Marlène Jobert
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor (Michel Piccoli) to the Gatsby-like provincial manor presided over by his powerful tycoon father (Orson Welles). Welcomed by Welles' ..read more »
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from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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Le Boucher
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia
Director: Claude Chabrol
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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 »
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from 1,293 member
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Les Biches
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Stephane Audran, Jacqueline Sassard, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Claude Chabrol crafts a complex social allegory in LES BICHES, a subtle and intricate tale of desire, despair, and murder. Released in March of 1968, just months before the May 1968 student revolts in Paris, Chabrol filtered the ever-increasing class struggle in France into the compelling tale of ..read more »
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from 619 members
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La Femme Infidele
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Stephane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Another suspense classic from French director Claude Chabrol, this taut psychological thriller tells the tale of a contented, middle-class husband (Michel Bouquet) who suspects his seemingly faithful wife (Stephane Audran) of carrying on an affair. He soon becomes consumed with jealousy and hires a ..read more »
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from 848 members
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Les Bonnes Femmes
(1960)
Starring: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stephane Audran
Director: Claude Chabrol
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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 »
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from 22 members
Currently unavailable
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Handsome Serge
(1959)
Starring: Edmond Beauchamp, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol. Though not a murder melodrama, the film is heavily influenced by the works of Chabrol's idol Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt in particular. Ailing city dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) makes a therapeutic ..read more »
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from 3 members
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Claude Chabrol facts
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...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...
