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"Too Much Johnson" is an elaborate 1890s farce of mistaken identity. Cuckolded husband Dathis (Edgar Barrier) is on the tale of a man named Billings (Joseph Cotten), who has been having an affair with Dathis's wife (Arlene Francis).

Billings flees by ship to Cuba, where now also hiding from his own wife (Ruth Ford) and mother-in-law (Mary Wickes), he adopts the identity of a plantation owner named Johnson, who is expecting a mail-order bride. Orson Welles plays a Keystone Kop.

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'Immortal Story' was based on a short story by the Danish writer Karen Blixen. The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is now quite old.

He likes his clerk Levinsky to read the company's accounts to him at night for relaxation. Tonight Mr. Clay recounts a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor sailor 5 guineas to father a child with his beautiful young wife. Levinsky says that's a popular old sailor's legend and not true. Mr. Clay has no heir for his fortune and no wife either. He resolves to make the story true... Levinsky approaches Virginie, another clerk's mistress, and strikes a bargain for 300 guineas. Now to find the sailor...

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In this disturbing psychological thriller, two young girls are attacked on the street by a violent rapist. Muriel (Lisa Langlois) is murdered but her cousin Patricia (Aude Landry) survives.

Inspector Carella (Donald Sutherland) soon has a prime suspect - Doniac ( Donald Pleasence) - a known sex offender. He is released when Patricia fails to identify him and Carella turns his attention to Armstrong, a man known to Muriel who fits the description. Muriel's funeral is marked by an emotional outburst from Patricia's brother Andrew (Laurent Malet) and brings a disturbing twist. Patricia now claims that Andrew is the killer and rapist. Carella is forced to confront the dark side of family life with each revelation as he seeks the killer.

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The spider at the center of a murderous web of deception, Isabelle Huppert stars as Mika, wife of virtuoso pianist Andre Polonski (Jacques Dutronc) and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his sixth birthday.

When a young pianist, Jeanne (Anna Mouglalis), learns that she and Guillaume were almost exchanged at birth, she takes the opportunity to introduce herself, believing she might in fact be Andre's daughter. Welcomed into the Polonski home, Andre makes her his pupil. But behind the facade of perfection, something is not quite right. Jeanne becomes suspicious of the seemingly benevolent Mika and the hot chocolate that she prepares each night for the whole family.

Charles Desvallees (Michel Bouquet) becomes suspicious that his wife Helene (Stephane Audran) is having an affair. Charles hires a private detective who comes up with the name of Victor Pegala (Maurice Ronet) and then goes off to contront his wife's lover.

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Stephane Audran plays a lonely schoolteacher who develops an inexplicable draw toward an ex-army butcher who may or may not be a serial killer plaguing a small town.

Drawing on Hitchcockian themes of exchanged guilt and shared secrets, Chabrol constructs an extraordinary relationship between the two characters that marries unspoken self-awareness with constant suspense over the unresolved nature of their bond.

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Lucienne (Stéphane Audran) and Pierre (Michel Piccoli) are having a dangerous affair; her husband, Paul (Claude Piéplu), is the mayor of the town and Pierre is his vice-mayor.

When Pierre's wife dies suddenly in an apparent suicide, the town gossips believe there may be more to it than meets the eye. In the meantime, Paul proposes a shady land deal to "benefit the town", and wants Pierre's support. But then he discovers proof of his wife's affair...

While investigating the bizarre murder of a writer in a small seaside village, Larvardin (Jean Poiret) uncovers more than he bargained when he realises that the victim's widow is an old flame. What follows is a stylish and first-rate thriller from the master of suspense - Claude Chabrol.

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Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect Francois Tellier. When one of their S&M games goes too far, Laura is accidentally strangled.

Even though the police are struggling to solve the murder, Charles finds it difficult to cope with the situation and to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Helene.

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Adapted from Ruth Rendell's chilling novel, this is one of Chabrol's most celebrated films. Wealthy family the Lelievres 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 local postal clerk Jeanne who has a disturbed history and a grudge against Sophie's new employers. As the pair begin to bond the family grow increasingly concerned.

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When his son is killed in a hit and run incident, Charles is determined to take revenge. After a long investigation, a chance meeting introduces him to Paul, whom he suspects murdered his child.

He decides to infiltrate Paul's family by faking a love affair with Paul's sister-in-law, only to find that the entire family also despise him. It is through this family hatred that Charles plots his revenge.

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Philippe Tardieu lives with his mother, Christine, and two sisters, Sophie and Patricia, in the suburbs of Nantes and works as a salesman. Christine does hairdressing at home to earn some spare change. Sophie, the eldest sister, is getting married to Jacky.

As for Patricia, the youngest sister, she tries as best she can to escape she's not sure what. At the wedding Philippe falls in love with Senta, one of the bridesmaids. It is love at first sight and, soon, Philippe spends all his nights with Senta, neglecting his mother and his younger sister. Senta's love is very exclusive and demanding. One day, she tells Philippe that, if he really loves her, he should kill a man, any man, for her. The next day, in order to please Senta and as a joke, Philippe says to her that he's responsible for the murder of a down-and-out. Senta believes him and says that she will do the same for him. When the corpse of another man is found, a panicking Philippe starts to wonder.

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Incest, old money, and intergenerational guilt come under the scalpel in this brooding story of lies, power, and the power of lies. Anne Charpin-Vasseur (Nathalie Baye), matriarch of an outwardly perfect upper-class family in Bordeaux decides to run for Mayor.

But in the midst of her campaign a leaflet appears, accusing her family of collaboration with the Nazis, profiteering, adultery, and more. One by one skeletons begin to emerge from the closet, sowing discord and distrust as the family begins to unravel.

Chabrol's masterpiece is a voyeuristic look at infidelity and marriage. A domineering husband, played by Paul Gegauff, decides that he and his wife, played by Gegauff's ex-wife, Danielle, should have open affairs with other lovers. His plan tragically backfires when he becomes plagued with jealousy.

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One of Chabrol's best films: a taut, diabolical thriller about a woman (Stephane Audran) who leaves her drug-addicted husband after he violently attacks their child while in a schizophrenic haze.

His aristocratic parents hire a brutal private detective (Jean-Pierre Cassel) to turn up incriminating evidence in order to discredit her in a child custody suit.