Claude Chabrol

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.

Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Roger Rudel

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury, and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting up with a young lover.

Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier

A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.

Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet

Working extremely hard to keep his hotel afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to see every male guest as a potential threat. What follows is Paul's downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy where he finally discovers that hell is not a state of mind – hell is himself.

Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone

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.

Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet