Claude Chabrol — Playwright (16)
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The Cousins (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Les Cousins
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Gérard Blain / Jean-Claude Brialy …
other title: I cugini / Les Cousins …
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.
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Six in Paris (1965) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Paris vu par…
director: Jean-Luc Godard / Claude Chabrol … actor: Barbara Wilkin / Jean-François Chappey …
other title: Parigi di notte / Paris vu par… …
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
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Fool’s Mate (1956) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
Le Coup du berger
director: Jacques Rivette actor: Virginie Vitry / Anne Doat …
other title: Le Coup du berger / El mate del pastor
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?
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Masques (1987) [Movie] TMDB
Masques
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Philippe Noiret / Robin Renucci …
other title: Volto segreto / Masken …
In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Christian Legagneur--or is he?
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Handsome Serge (1958) [Movie] TMDB
Le beau Serge
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Gérard Blain / Jean-Claude Brialy …
other title: Le Beau Serge / Nas Garras do Vício …
After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
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This Man Must Die (1969) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData
Que la bête meure
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Michel Duchaussoy / Caroline Cellier …
other title: Ucciderò un uomo / Das Biest muß sterben …
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
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Wise Guys (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Les Godelureaux
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Jean-Claude Brialy / Bernadette Lafont …
other title: I bellimbusti / Speisekarte der Liebe …
In Paris in the early 1960s, Ronald is a son of a good family, with a carefree, pleasure-oriented life. He is one of the leading figures in the small world of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Following a trivial parking incident, he meets Arthur, a young man with a straight face who hurts his pride. It is at this moment that Ambroisine, a beautiful young woman, appears... she will be the instrument of Ronald's revenge.
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Nightcap (2000) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Merci pour le chocolat
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Isabelle Huppert / Jacques Dutronc …
other title: Grazie per la cioccolata / Süßes Gift …
Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.
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Comedy of Power (2006) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
L'Ivresse du pouvoir
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Isabelle Huppert / François Berléand …
other title: La commedia del potere / Geheime Staatsaffären …
Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into the upper echelons of government, Jeanne becomes intoxicated by the power she is amassing.
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The Swindle (1997) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rien ne va plus
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Isabelle Huppert / Michel Serrault …
other title: Rien ne va plus – Il gioco è fatto / Das Leben ist ein Spiel …
Betty and Victor, a rather ill-matched couple, tour unobtrusively around France in their motor-home, earning their living as petty con artists, until one day they find themselves involved in an international money scam which takes them on a globe-trotting adventure.
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Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Les innocents aux mains sales
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Romy Schneider / Rod Steiger …
other title: Gli innocenti dalle mani sporche / Os Inocentes de Mãos Sujas …
Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?