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Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol

French film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor (1930-2010)
June 24, 1930 (September 12, 2010)
Fr. 2012. Animation by Jean-Christophe Dessaint. When his father falls ill, a child in the woods defies his father's rules and goes to the nearest village for help.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2009. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Gérard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin. While on vacation in N
Runtime: 110 min.

A Girl Cut in Two

V.O.: La Fille coupée en deux
Fr. 2007. Drama by Claude Chabrol with Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand. An attractive weather girl is torn between a jaded older writer and a troubled young heir.
Runtime: 110 min.

Comedy of Power

V.O.: L'Ivresse du pouvoir
Fr. 2005. Court drama by Claude Chabrol with Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Thomas Chabrol. After having a major industrialist arrested, an investigating judge works tirelessly to punish the culprits of a vast fraud case.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2004. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément. At his sister's wedding, a young executive falls in love with a bridesmaid who, as a proof of love, asks him to kill a random stranger.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2002. Mores drama by Claude Chabrol with Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel, Suzanne Flon. In Bordeaux, a candidate for mayor is smeared by an anonymous leaflet revealing disturbing secrets about her wealthy family.
Runtime: 105 min.

Nightcap

V.O.: Merci pour le chocolat
Fr. 2000. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Isabelle Huppert, Anna Mouglalis, Jacques Dutronc. In search of her origins, a young pianist rubs shoulders with the family of a businesswoman whose friendliness conceals a formidable perversity.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1998. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. At the very moment when he is suspected of the murder of a little girl, an art teacher discovers that his wife has been unfaithful.
Runtime: 113 min.

The Swindle

V.O.: Rien ne va plus
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1995. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jacqueline Bisset.
Runtime: 111 min.
Fr. 1993. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone. Doubting the fidelity of his wife, a hotelier commits increasingly uncontrollable acts.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1992. Dramatic comedy by Virginie Thévenet with Aure Atika, Philip Bartlett, Rossy de Palma.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1991. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Marie Trintignant, Stéphane Audran, Jean-François Garreaud. Banished by her in-laws for adultery, a woman is taken in by the mistress of a restaurant owner who becomes her confidante.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1991. Mores drama by Claude Chabrol with Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy. The young wife of a provincial doctor tries to escape her boredom by engaging in various romantic adventures.
Runtime: 142 min.

Quiet Days in Clichy

V.O.: Jours tranquilles à Clichy
Fr. 1989. Dramatic comedy by Claude Chabrol with Andrew McCarthy, Nigel Havers, Stéphanie Cotta. An American writer recalls the adventures he had with a photographer and an attractive teenage girl in Paris in the 1930s.
Runtime: 91 min.

Club Extinction

V.O.: Dr. M
All. 1989. Science-fiction by Claude Chabrol with Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas. In Berlin, in the year 2000, a police officer investigates a mysterious suicide epidemic.
Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 1989. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Jean Poiret, Amy Werba, Christiane Minazzoli. A French police officer links a murder committed in an Italian spa with an arms deal.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1989. Crime drama by Christian de Chalonge with Jean Poiret, Bruno Cremer, Bulle Ogier. An eccentric police officer thinks that a rich industrialist in a seaside resort was involved in a double murder.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1989. Crime drama by Christian de Chalonge with Jean Poiret, Anne Roussel, Teresa Madruga. In Portugal, a French police officer searches for a young woman who mysteriously disappeared in a haunted mansion.
Runtime: 90 min.

Story of Women

V.O.: Une Affaire de femmes
Fr. 1988. Social drama by Claude Chabrol with Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant. During the occupation, a man returning from captivity finds it difficult to accept that his wife has made a modest living by performing abortions.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 1988. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Jean Poiret, Mario David, Roger Dumas. An unorthodox police officer investigates the mysterious murders of women who are each found with a snail on their body.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1988. Dramatic comedy by Pierre Zucca with Claude Chabrol, Valérie Allain, Fabrice Luchini. A nurse's aide and her husband take in a lonely and sick sixty-year-old man who, in return, agrees to make them his heirs.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1987. Dramatic comedy by Virginie Thévenet with Myriam David, Gaël Séguin, Ludovic Henry. When their mother dies, a brother and his sister are left to their own devices and fantasies.
Runtime: 98 min.

The Cry of the Owl

V.O.: Le Cri du hibou
Fr. 1987. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Christophe Malavoy, Mathilda May, Jacques Penot. A man in the process of divorce is challenged by the fianc
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1986. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci, Anne Brochet. Under the pretext of writing his biography, a novelist goes to the home of a television star to discreetly investigate the disappearance of a young girl.
Runtime: 100 min.

I Hate Actors

V.O.: Je hais les acteurs
Fr. 1986. Police comedy by Gérard Krawczyk with Jean Poiret, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim. In Hollywood in 1942, several murders occur during the shooting of a film.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1986. Mores drama by Gérard Krawczyk with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jacques Villeret, Pauline Lafont. Despite the neighbours' envy, a man decides to settle with his girlfriend in the family house where his brother lives.
Runtime: 102 min.

Inspector Lavardin

V.O.: Inspecteur Lavardin
Fr. 1986. Police comedy by Claude Chabrol with Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont. A detective investigating the murder of a well-known Catholic writer recognizes a childhood sweetheart in the widow.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1984. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Jean Poiret, Michel Bouquet, Lucas Belvaux. Three prosperous people from a small town use dishonest means to carry out their real estate business.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1983. Crime drama by Jacques Bral with Jean-François Balmer, Sandra Montaigu, Pierre Santini. A rather clueless private investigator gets into a lot of trouble when he decides to help a young stranger clear up the circumstances surrounding a murder.
Runtime: 97 min.

The Blood of Others

V.O.: Le Sang des autres
Can. 1983. Drama by Claude Chabrol with Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill. Out of love for a communist militant, a young designer joins the resistance.
Runtime: 135 min.
Fr. 1982. Thriller by Claude Chabrol with Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Aurore Clément. Suffering from a psychic imbalance, a hat maker comes to kill his wife and her friends.
Runtime: 121 min.
Fr. 1980. Police comedy by Claude Chabrol with Helmut Berger, Jacques Dufilho, Pierre Malet.
Runtime: 94 min.

The Horse of Pride

V.O.: Le Cheval d'orgueil
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1978. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Simone Signoret, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Didier Haudepin. A female judge does everything in her power to save the head of a teenager charged with patricide.
Runtime: 88 min.

Stunt Woman

V.O.: L'Animal
Fr. 1977. Comedy by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Aldo Maccione. A stunt performer tries to win over an American colleague.
Runtime: 106 min.

Blood Relatives

V.O.: Les Liens de sang
Fr. 1977. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Donald Sutherland, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois. A police detective tries to solve a murder in which a teenage girl incriminates her brother.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1977. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet. In 1934, a young girl is put on trial for poisoning her parents.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1976. Fantasy by Claude Chabrol with Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Jean Carmet. Following an accident, a young woman seeks help in a mansion inhabited by strange characters.
Runtime: 93 min.

The Twist

V.O.: Folies bourgeoises
Fr. 1976. Dramatic comedy by Claude Chabrol with Stéphane Audran, Bruce Dern, Jean-Pierre Cassel. A young woman abandons her lover to try to win back her husband who is also unfaithful.
Runtime: 107 min.

Innocents With Dirty Hands

V.O.: Les Innocents aux mains sales
Fr. 1975. Thriller by Claude Chabrol with Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, Paolo Giusti. A young woman plots with her lover to murder her husband and take his fortune.
Runtime: 121 min.
Fr. 1975. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Jean Rochefort, Franco Nero, Gert Fröbe. An idle man amuses himself by perpetrating a crime that an illusionist claims to have had a premonition of.
Runtime: 90 min.

Pleasure Party

V.O.: Une Partie de plaisir
Fr. 1974. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Paul Gégauff, Danièle Gégauff, Paula Moore. A couple falls apart after agreeing on mutual sexual freedom.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1974. Thriller by Claude Chabrol with Fabio Testi, Michel Aumont, Michel Duchaussoy. Anarchists kidnap the American ambassador in Paris and hold him in an abandoned farmhouse.
Runtime: 132 min.
Fr. 1973. Thriller by Claude Chabrol with Michel Piccoli, Stéphane Audran, Claude Piéplu. The wife of a provincial mayor and her lover agree to eliminate her troublesome husband.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1972. Police comedy by Claude Chabrol with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mia Farrow, Laura Antonelli. After marrying an ugly girl to secure his social status, a doctor has an affair with his sister-in-law.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1972. Crime drama by Étienne Périer with Jean-Claude Brialy, Stéphane Audran, Robert Hossein. A man tries to escape the blackmail from an individual who wants to profit from the accidental death of his wife.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1971. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Orson Welles, Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins. A rich Alsatian
Runtime: 110 min.

The Breach

V.O.: La Rupture
Fr. 1970. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet. An industrialist seeks to undermine his daughter-in-law who wants to obtain a divorce from her son.
Runtime: 125 min.
Fr. 1970. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran, François Périer. A man, cleared of all suspicion for a murder he committed, feels remorse within him.
Runtime: 112 min.

This Man Must Die

V.O.: Que la bête meure
Fr. 1969. Thriller by Claude Chabrol with Michel Duchaussoy, Jean Yanne, Caroline Cellier. A novelist seeks revenge on the driver who killed his young son.
Runtime: 112 min.

The Unfaithful Wife

V.O.: La Femme infidèle
Fr. 1968. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet. A man kills his wife's lover.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1968. Thriller by Claude Chabrol with Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Roger Rudel. A village schoolteacher befriends a local butcher who turns out to be a criminal maniac.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1967. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Stéphane Audran, Jacqueline Sassard, Jean-Louis Trintignant. A rich heiress takes a young bohemian to her villa in Saint-Tropez.
Runtime: 97 min.

The Champagne Murders

V.O.: Le Scandale
Fr. 1967. Crime drama by Claude Chabrol with Maurice Ronet, Anthony Perkins, Yvonne Furneaux. To get her partner into selling a champagne farm, a woman pressures him to commit a crime.
Runtime: 113 min.

Who's Got the Black Box

V.O.: La Route de Corinthe
Fr. 1967. Police comedy by Claude Chabrol with Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Michel Bouquet. The wife of a murdered secret agent continues with her husband's investigation.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1966. War drama by Claude Chabrol with Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Daniel Gélin. A spy, hidden from the Germans, manages to cross into the free zone.
Runtime: 120 min.

Our Agent Tiger

V.O.: Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite
Fr. 1965. Police comedy by Claude Chabrol with Roger Hanin, Margaret Lee, Michel Bouquet. A secret agent is in charge of protecting a treasure.
Runtime: 122 min.

6 in Paris...

V.O.: Paris vu par...
Fr. 1965. Sketches by Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Éric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol with Jean-Pierre Andréani, Stéphane Audran, Nadine Ballot. Various incidents, whether funny or dramatic, located in different districts of Paris.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1965. Sketches by Hiromichi Horikawa, Roman Polanski, Ugo Gregoretti, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard. Five small plots told in the context of different cities of the world.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Blue Panther

V.O.: Marie-Chantal contre le Dr. Kha
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Claude Chabrol with Marie Laforêt, Francisco Rabal, Serge Reggiani. A young snob girl is involved in a espionage case.
Runtime: 111 min.
Fr. 1965. Satire by Luc Moullet with Françoise Vatel, Colette Descombes, Michel Gonzales. The daily life of two young provincial girls who came to study in Paris.
Runtime: 76 min.
Fr. 1964. Sketches by Claude Berri, Bertrand Tavernier, Charles L. Bitsch, Eric Schlumberger, Claude Chabrol with Francis Blanche, Michel Auclair, Michel Piccoli. Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
Runtime: 107 min.

Deadly Decoy

V.O.: Le Tigre aime la chair fraîche
Fr. 1964. Police comedy by Claude Chabrol with Roger Hanin, Daniela Bianchi, Roger Dumas. A counter-intelligence agent is assigned to watch over the safety of a Turkish minister and his daughter on a trip to Paris.
Runtime: 80 min.

Bluebeard

V.O.: Landru
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Claude Chabrol with Charles Denner, Stéphane Audran, Danielle Darrieux. A man murders several women after taking their belongings.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Jack Pinoteau with Jean Poiret, Roger Pierre, Stéphane Audran. An author, convinced that someone is after his life, hires a detective.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1961. Crime drama by Edmond T. Gréville with Dawn Addams, Jean Servais, Claude Brasseur. A middle-aged man marries a young actress who will give him a hard time.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1961. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Jacques Charrier, Stéphane Audran, Walther Reyer. The wife of his friend having refused his advances, a man blackmails her after discovering her infidelities.
Runtime: 80 min.

Seven Capital Sins

V.O.: Les 7 Péchés capitaux
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1960. Comedy by Claude Chabrol with Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Belmont, Bernadette Lafont. A rich slacker decides to take revenge on a student who played a bad joke on him.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1960. Mores drama by Claude Chabrol with Bernadette Lafont, Lucile Saint-Simon, Clotilde Joano. The adventures of four young Parisian salespeople.
Runtime: 105 min.

Web of Passion

V.O.: À double tour
Fr. 1959. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Madeleine Robinson, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Antonella Lualdi. A young man kills his father's mistress.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1958. Psychological drama by Claude Chabrol with Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel. In Paris, a serious young person from the countryside is drawn into a frivolous life by his cousin.
Runtime: 110 min.

Handsome Serge

V.O.: Le Beau Serge
Fr. 1958. Mores drama by Claude Chabrol with Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont. A young man tries to rehabilitate his fallen, alcoholic friend.
Runtime: 105 min.

Paris Belongs to Us

V.O.: Paris nous appartient
Fr. 1958. Moral study by Jacques Rivette with Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost. A student affiliated with a group of young intellectuals sets out to solve the mysterious disappearance of one of its members.
Runtime: 140 min.

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