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Stéphane Audran has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
1981
Crime · Drama
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur
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
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.
Dir. Gabriel Axel · With Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel
Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles strain friendships, a younger man captures the attention of one friend's wife, complicating their lives further.
Dir. Claude Sautet · With Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani
A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.
Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
Dir. Samuel Fuller · With Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
Dir. Georges Lautner · With Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.
Dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer · With Hatty Jones, Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne
A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
Dir. Claude Miller · With Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand
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
Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy.
Dir. Ringo Lam Ling-Tung · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Dir. Peter Collinson · With Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he ?
Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise Bourgoin
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