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Chabrol builds the tension in this international thriller released the year before his classic Les Biches. An undercover NATO security man in Greece is murdered and his wife finds herself under suspicion.

To clear her name, she must discover who is behind the blocking of American radar installations in this involving tale of intrigue.

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Madame Cuno (Stéphane Audran) and her son, Louis (Lucas Belvaux), are being harassed to sell their house by greedy property developers. When one developer dies in mysterious circumstances and the other is suspected of having murdered his wife.

Inspector Lavardin (Jean Poiret) becomes determined to get to the truth, using whatever means he feels are appropriate. And the truth is very grisly indeed...

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Julie Wormser (stunningly played by Romy Schneider) is an icy wife who plots with her lover, writer and neighbour, Jeff Marie, to get rid of her alcoholic, impotent husband (Rod Steiger) while vacationing in St. Tropez.

Fascinatingly ironic and ambiguous with a wonderfully convoluted plot, ever-changing relationships and intriguing minor characters.

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In 19th century France, the romantic daughter of a squire Emma Bovary (Isabelle Huppert) marries a dull country doctor Charles Bovery (Jean-François Balmer).

To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner Rodolphe Boulanger (Christophe Malavoy) and a young law student Leon Dupuis (Lucas Belvaux), and runs up ruinous debts.

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In Claude Chabrol's superior thriller Ludivine Sagnier plays an independent ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior (Francois Berleand) and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor (Benolt Magimel).

An unspoken past between the two men heightens tensions, and though she's initially certain of her love for one of them, the see-saw demands and whims of both men keep confusing—and darkening-matters. Before long she's encountering emotional and societal forces well beyond her control, inexorably leading to a shocking clash of violence and passion.

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Judge Jeanne Charmant Killman (Isabelle Huppert) is assigned the job of investigating a high-profile case of corruption and embezzlement at a giant state-supported company. Under her orders the CEO Michel Humeau (Francois Berleand) is taken in to custody.

As her investigation gathers momentum, Killman uncovers an immense scandal reaching into the upper echelons of government. The deeper she delves and the more she uncovers, the more powerful she becomes. However, under the pressures of her sudden influence and notoriety, Killman's private life begins to unravel, and she finds herself probing both the limits of her own power and its intoxicating grip.

Based on a true story, Isabelle Huppert plays Marie, an illegal abortionist who risks the terrible consequences of discovery by the Nazis and Vichy government so that she can save her young family from the oppression of extreme poverty.

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When the out of control Betty (Marie Trintignant) meets the recently widowed Laure (Stephane Audran) in a bar, they seem to have an instant bond.

But when Laure decides to take her in and Betty begins to reveal a sad and sometimes horrific life story of betrayal and self destruction, something snaps. What follows is one of the most intriguing cat and mouse battles ever witnessed.

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In the small coastal town of St. Malo, Brittany, the body of a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. Suspicion falls on the dour Rene Sterne (Jacques Gamblin) a once famous painter, now art teacher, who was the last person to see her alive.

His marriage to the buoyant Vivianne (Sandrine Bonnaire), already under strain beneath the weight of gossip and rumour, is further tested when shallow but successful novelist, journalist, and TV host Germain-Roland Desmot (Antoine de Caunes) arrives, a flamboyant ladies' man with a vacation home in St. Malo and an interest in Vivianne. A powerful psychological thriller that puts both the characters and the community under a microscope.

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Claude Chabrol's mystery thriller centres on the investigation 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 becomes acquainted with the people in Legagneur's world, Wolf discovers that no-one is as they first seem...

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Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) is a veteran film director, afflicted by multiple ailments, the worst of which is his inability to continue filming. His physical condition doesn't allow it and, if he can't film, his life has no meaning.

His mixture of medications, along with the occasional flirtation with heroin, means that Salvador spends most of his days prostrate and forlorn. This drowsy state transports him back to reflect on his childhood in the 60's, when his family emigrated to Paterna, a village in Valencia, in search of prosperity, through to the appearance of his first desire and his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80's. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he may also find his salvation.

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Camille falls out of love with her husband Paul while he is rewriting the screenplay Odyssey by American producer Jeremiah Prokosch.

Just as the director of Prokosch's film, Fritz Lang, says that The Odyssey is the story of individuals confronting their situations in a real world, Le Mepris itself is an examination of the position of the filmmaker in the commercial cinema industry.

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Joe Wilson, a wrongly jailed man thought to have died in a blaze started by a bloodthirsty lynch mob, is somehow alive. And dead to all he ever stood for and perhaps ever will be. Because Joe aims to ensure his would-be executioners meet the fate Joe miraculously escaped.

Spencer Tracy is Joe, Sylvia Sidney is his bride-to-be and "Fury" lives up to its volatile name with its searing indictment of mob justice and lynching.

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It's been eleven years since the downfall of arch-criminal and master-of-disguise Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), now sequestered in an asylum under the watchful eye of one Professor Baum (Oskar Beregi).

Mabuse exists in a state of "catatonic graphomania", his only action the irrepressible scribbling of blueprints that would realise a seemingly theoretical "Empire of Crime". But when a series of violent events courses through the city, police and populace alike start asking themselves with increasing panic: "Who is behind all this?!" The answer borders on the realm of the impossible...

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An international spy ring, headed by Haghi (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), uses technology, threats, and murder to obtain government secrets.

As master spy, president of a bank, and music hall clown, Haghi leads several lives using instruments of modern technology to spearhead a mad rush for secrets - secrets that assert his power over others.