Claude ChabrolFilmography

Born:: June 24, 1930 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Widely credited as the founding father of the French Nouvelle Vague movement, Claude Chabrol is responsible for a body of work that is as prolific as it is boldly defined. A master of the suspense thriller, Chabrol approaches his subjects with a cold, distanced objectivity that has led at least...Read More

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Bellamy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Marie Bunel, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, Vahina Giocante

2009
La Fille Coupée en Deux

Crew: Dialogue Writer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand, Mathilda May, Caroline Sihol

Synopsis: A television weatherwoman is pursued simultaneously by a spoiled pharmaceutical heir and a successful -- but much older -- writer in director Claude Chabrol's blackly comic tale of romance and class differences. Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier) has a high-profile job detailing the forecast on Read More

8/15/08
A Comedy of Power

Crew: Dialogue Writer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Patrick Bruel, Robin Renucci, Maryline Canto

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol's Comedy of Power stars Isabelle Huppert as a French judge who attempts to bring down the very powerful but corrupt CEO of a large corporation. As she digs deeper into the case, she uncovers criminal activity that stretches into the highest levels of government, and her life is Read More

1/5/07
La Demoiselle d'Honneur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément, Bernard Le Coq, Solene Bouton

Synopsis: The master of French suspense joins forces with the queen of English suspense fiction for this tense tale of the treacherous love affair between a disturbed bridesmaid and an unsuspecting young man. Philippe (Benoit Magimel) lives in a quiet French town with his hairdresser mother Christine (Aurore Clément Read More

8/4/06
Avida

Actors: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine, Eric Martin, The Velvet Underground, Jean-Claude Carrière

Synopsis: In this bizarre surrealist comedy from France, a handful of oddball characters live in world where people heap strange forms of abuse on animals -- dwarves stage bullfights with rhinos, zoos open restaurants where the privileged can dine on the animals on display, and the wealthy lock themselves Read More

2006
Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque

Actors: Henri Alékan, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold, Christian Auboire, Raphael Bassan

Synopsis: Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with Jean Mitry and Georges Franju) one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and museum devoted to preserving the history of the motion picture. Initially a tiny Read More

10/12/05
The Flower of Evil

Crew: Dialogue Writer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel, Suzanne Flon, Bernard Le Coq, Mélanie Doutey

Synopsis: Co-written by Caroline Eliacheff, Claude Chabrol's La Fleur Du Mal (The Flower of Evil) concerns three generations of the bourgeois Charpin-Vasseur family. The story opens in the present day with a murder occurring during a local election and son Francois (Benoit Magimel) returning home to Read More

10/10/03
Merci Pour le Chocolat

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Rodolphe Pauly, Michel Robin

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol directed this well-crafted thriller, which recalls the style and themes of his best-known work of the 1960s. Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller (Isabelle Huppert), who has inherited control of a large and successful Swiss chocolate company, remarries well-known musician André Polonski (Jacques Dutronc Read More

7/31/02
Au Coeur du Mensonge

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Antoine de Caunes, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: This thriller from veteran director Claude Chabrol is a tense suspense drama, leavened with sly humor, about the fallout from a shocking crime in a small town. Frederique Lesage (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), the new chief of police in a cozy and fashionable seaside community in Brittany, soon finds Read More

1999
The Swindle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer, Jackie Berroyer

Synopsis: The 50th film from legendary French New Wave writer and director Claude Chabrol is a typically Hitchcockian comic thriller about a pair of con artists. Up to now, the duo of Betty (Isabelle Huppert) and Victor (Michel Serrault) have contented themselves to small scams at hotel conventions, such as Read More

10/15/97
The Son of Gascogne

Actors: Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Grégoire Colin, Dinara Drukarova, Pascal Bonitzer

Synopsis: This gentle French comedy has a meandering plotline as it traces the exploits of a young man recognized as a the son of a star. The main protagonist is 23-year old Harvey who works as the guide for a group of Georgian singers who have a Paris gig. He is interested in Dinara, the 18-year old Read More

1995
La Cérémonie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen

Synopsis: When Catherine Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset) hires mousy and taciturn Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) as a housemaid, she thinks that she found a treasure. Mr. Lelievre (Jean-Pierre Cassel) seems to agree with her, pointing out that the maid just has yet to learn how to serve dinner correctly. Wealthy Read More

1995
L'Enfer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Marc Lavoine, Nathalie Cardone, André Wilms

Synopsis: This French drama about the relationship between an insanely jealous man and his wife took 30 years to make. Since its inception by the late director Henri-Georges Clouzot the film was plagued with bad luck. He began filming it in 1964. There are only two characters in the film and on the third Read More

1994
Francois Truffaut: Portraits Volés

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Claude Chabrol

Synopsis: In homage to one of France's great directors, this highly personal documentary features those that knew him best, including his daughter Ewa and fellow filmmaker Claude Chabrol as they offer their comments and analysis of his career and his fascinating life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Jean Renoir

Actors: Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Bogdanovich, Leslie Caron

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894-1979) had an extremely long career writing, directing, producing and acting in films, beginning in the silent era, right up until the time of his death, when most of his productions were influenced by the medium of television. He was one of the sons of the famous Read More

1993
The Eye of Vichy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Produced by French New Wave founder Claude Chabrol, The Eye of Vichy is an extraordinary 110-minute account of Nazi-occupied France during World War II. The film, narrated by Brian Cox, documents the pro-Nazi sentiments of Marshall Petain's Vichy regime and its efforts to spread propaganda against Read More

1993
Betty

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marie Trintignant, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Francois Garreaud, Yves Lambrecht, Christiane Minazzoli

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon, Betty stars Marie Trintignant in the title role. A drunken wastrel, Betty is adopted after a fashion by an older female alcoholic named Laure, played by director Claude Chabrol's wife at the time, Stéphane Audran. Fascinated by Betty's hard-luck tales Read More

1992
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann

Synopsis: This documentary chronicles the life and work of famed film composer Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann, who died in 1976, scored many sci-fi and fantasy movies and several Alfred Hitchcock films. Included are clips from many of the films he composed for and interviews with actors and composers he worked Read More

1992
Sam Suffit

Actors: Aure Atika, Rossy de Palma, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Chabrol

Synopsis: After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer Read More

1992
Madame Bovary

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Malavoy, Jean-François Balmer, Jean Yanne, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: Literary critics long regarded Gustave Flaubert's iconic French novel Madame Bovary as unfilmable (despite several attempts by Vincente Minnelli and others to bring it to the screen), but Nouvelle Vague architect Claude Chabrol set out to definitively prove them wrong with this Oscar-nominated Read More

12/25/91
Story of Women

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier, Lolita Chammah

Synopsis: The women in this story are the customers of amateur abortionist Isabelle Huppert. The time is 1941, and the place is a Nazi-occupied French town. Struggling to survive, Huppert turns to illegally terminating unwanted pregnancies for a hefty fee. As her income increases, Huppert moves her family Read More

10/13/89
Docteur M.

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler, Benoit Regent

Synopsis: Noted French director Claude Chabrol helmed this oddity, a remake of German director Fritz Lang's 1922 classic Dr. Mabuse. The film features an all-star international cast as it tells the futuristic horror story of a bizarre epidemic which has swept West Berlin leaving a grim trail of grisly Read More

1989
Alouette, Je Te Plumerai

Actors: Claude Chabrol, Valerie Allain, Fabrice Luchini, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Pierre Vergne (Claude Chabrol) is an opportunist who weasels his way into the lives of the nurse Francoise (Valerie Allain) and her husband Jacques (Fabrice Luchini), an ambulance driver. He convinces the couple he is wealthy and hasn't long to live and that they will become the sole heirs to his Read More

1989
Jours Tranquils a Clichy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Nigel Havers, Barbara de Rossi, Isolde Barth

Synopsis: Henry Miller's novels were almost entirely autobiographical, and concerned not only his environment and friends, but also recorded his many sexual exploits - which he apparently viewed with something like spiritual awe. Despite his sexual obsessions, his novels are respected worldwide for their Read More

1989
Je Hais les Acteurs

Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: This adaptation of Ben Hecht's novel is a satire that unfolds as a mystery story. A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty Read More

4/29/88
The Cry of the Owl

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Mathilda May, Jacques Penot, Virginie Thévenet, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Le Cri du Hibou concerns Robert (Christophe Malavoy), a commercial artist who has moved to a quiet neighborhood in Vichy, hoping to escape a severe depression brought on by the unpleasant breakup of his marriage to Veronique (Virginie Thevenet). Robert finds Read More

1987
L'Été En Pente Douce

Actors: Pauline Lafont, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jacques Villeret, Guy Marchand, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane (Jean-Pierre Bacri) returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas (Pauline Lafont). He must care for his idiot brother Mo (Jacques Villeret) and contend with a greedy garage owner (Guy Marchand) who Read More

1987
Masques

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci, Monique Chaumette, Bernadette Lafont, Anne Brochet

Synopsis: Roland Wolf (Robin Renucci) poses as a reporter to interview a popular television personality (Philippe Noiret) he believes is responsible for the disappearance of his sister. The struggling actress had taken a job as a companion to the star's sickly ward Catherine (Anne Brochet). Roland discovers Read More

1987
Sale Destin!

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Pauline Lafont, Marie Laforêt, Jacques Penot, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Francois Marboni (Victor Lanoux) is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rache (Pauline Lafont) in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target Read More

1987
Jeux d'artifices

Actors: Myriam David, Dominic Gould

Synopsis: Gael Seguin and Myriam David star in this drama about a brother and sister who are orphaned from the war. The two turn their apartment into a photography studio to make ends meet. The sister is brokenhearted when she falls for a young man who eventually leaves with her brother. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Read More

1987
Suivez Mon Regard

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Galabru, Féodor Atkine, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Macha Beranger, Christian Barbier

Synopsis: A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food Read More

1986
Inspecteur Lavardin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean-Luc Bideau, Hermine Claire

Synopsis: Inspecteur Lavardin is a mellow, take-your-time Claude Chabrol effort of the 1980s, partly financed by French television. Jean Poiret had previously played the role of Inspector Jean Lavardin in the 1984 Chabrol film Poulet au Vinaigre (aka Cop au Vin). This story is built completely around the Read More

1986
Polar

Actors: Jean-François Balmer, Sandra Montaigu, Pierre Santini, Roland Dubillard, Claude Chabrol

Synopsis: This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder Read More

1984
The Blood of Others

Crew: Director

Actors: Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Marie Bunel, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Produced on behalf of the HBO cable service, The Blood of Others is a rare venture into English-language filmmaking by Claude Chabrol. Set during World War II, the film stars Jodie Foster and Michael Ontkean as a pair of French resistance fighters. If you can swallow that, then you'll accept New Read More

1984
Poulet Au Vinaigre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Caroline Cellier, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: In a routine murder mystery based on a novel by Dominique Roulet, a cruel, wheelchair-bound invalid (Stephane Audran) who consistently terrorizes her teen son Louis (Lucas Belvaux) into abject obedience, is threatened with the loss of her home by a conniving trio who want her property as part of a Read More

1984
Les Voleurs de la Nuit

Actors: Véronique Jannot, Bobby Di Cicco, Victor Lanoux, Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Sam Fuller (1911-1997) directed this rather mediocre crime story about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed. François (Bobby Di Cicco) and Isabelle (Veronique Jannot) meet in an unemployment office, a likely place to find Read More

1983
Les Fantomes du Chapelier

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette, Aurore Clément, Christine Paolini

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, based on a Georges Simenon novel, a homicidal maniac goes on a killing spree beginning with his wife, whom he kept in the cellar. He then kills six of her aged friends and is preparing to murder a seventh when the intended victim dies naturally. As a substitute, he murders Read More

1982
Les Affinites Electives

Crew: Director

1981
Le Cheval D'Orgeuil

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Lesache, François Cluzet, Dominique Lavanant, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: Based on a popular novel by Pierre-Jakez Helias, Horse of Pride is set in a hardscrabble peasant community in Brittany. Covering the years 1908 through 1918, the film concentrates on the lives, customs and aspirations of the community's populace. The visuals are complemented not by dialogue but by Read More

1980
Fantômas

Crew: Director

Actors: Helmut Berger, Jacques Dufilho, Pierre Mallet, Gayle Hunnicutt

1979
Violette Nozière

Crew: Director

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jean Carmet, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Francois Garreaud

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol's Violette was based on the true story of 19-year-old Violette Noziere, who in the 1930s was tried and convicted for the poisoning of her father and the attempted murder of her mother. As played by Isabelle Huppert (who won several awards for her performance), Violette is a Read More

1978
Les Liens de Sang

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Stéphane Audran, Micheline Lanctôt, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Aude Landry, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Making a rare visit to Canada, Claude Chabrol cowrote and directed the low-pressure psychological melodrama Blood Relatives (Les Liens de sang). Donald Sutherland and Donald Pleasence head the cast in this story of the aftermath of a brutal murder. The victim, a 17-year-old girl, was apparently Read More

1977
L'Animal

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Charles Gerard, Dany Saval, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Michel Gauché, a stunt double and trickster who is crazy in love with his former fiancee, work-mate, and fellow stunt performer Jane (Raquel Welch). She, however, is so angry with him for landing her in the hospital due to a badly performed stunt that she breaks off the Read More

1977
Alice ou la Derniere Fugue

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Jean Carmet, André Dussollier, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: While leaving her husband, whom she now detests, Alice (Sylvia Kristel) drives into the countryside but must stop at an old house when her windshield cracks mysteriously. She is received at the house as if expected, and spends the night there while her car is being fixed. The next day, she cannot Read More

1977
Folies Bourgeoises

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Dern, Stéphane Audran, Ann-Margret, Curd Jürgens, Sydne Rome, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: French New Wave director Claude Chabrol steps away from his usual style of mysteries and psychological dramas for the sex comedy Folies Bourgeoises, based on the novel Le Malheur Fou by Lucie Faure. Bruce Dern is the American writer William Brandels and Stephane Audran is his French socialite Read More

6/23/76
Les Magiciens

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Franco Nero, Stefania Sandrelli

9/5/75
Innocents With Dirty Hands

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider, Paolo Giusti, Jean Rochefort, François Maistre

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a philandering wife plans to ill her alcoholic husband so she can run away with her lover. It all goes according to plan, and the widow is finally happy. Her happiness is short lived, as the "dead" husband shows up alive on her doorstep. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

3/26/75
The Pleasure Party

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Gégauff, Danielle Gégauff, Clemence Gégauff, Paula Moore, Michel Valette

Synopsis: This uncomfortably voyeuristic Claude Chabrol effort was released in France as Une Partie De Plaisir. The story, which is little more than an elongated anecdote, details the destruction of a marriage at the hands of a domineering husband. To fully appreciate the perversity of Chabrol's concept, it Read More

1975
Nada

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Mariangela Melato, Michel Duchaussoy, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Also known as Nada, The Nada Gang is a lesser effort from director Claude Chabrol. A group of European terrorists calling themselves the Nada kidnaps an American ambassador. Their hideout is besieged by a sadistic police official and his minions. Thanks to the official's eagerness to pull the Read More

2/6/74
Une Invitation à la chasse

Crew: Director

1974
Les Noces Rouges

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu, Clotilde Joano

Synopsis: In this Hitchcockian French thriller directed by Claude Chabrol, marital infidelity once again leads to murder. Set in a small village, the plot gets underway when Mayor Paul Delamaire (Claude Piéplu) discovers that his wife Lucienne (Stéphane Audran) is cheating on him. Her lover is the mayor's Read More

4/12/73
Docteur Popaul

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mia Farrow, Laura Antonelli, Daniel Ivernel

Synopsis: Docteur Popaul, or Scoundrel in White is a black comedy by Claude Chabrol. It tells of the life and proper comeuppance of Dr. Paul Simay (Jean Paul Belmondo), an unusual sort of ladies' man. At his hospital, there is a bet to see who can seduce the most ugly women. Paul is confident he can win Read More

9/29/72
Un Meurtre Est un Meurtre

Actors: Michel Serrault, Catherine Spaak, Stéphane Audran, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: In this French suspense drama, Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy) is a decent man in an ugly situation. His wife (Stephane Audran), who was crippled in their second year of marriage, has become a bitter and unpleasant virago. Though he keeps company with a lovely mistress (Catherine Spaak), the wife is Read More

1972
Ten Days' Wonder

Crew: Director

Actors: Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Guido Alberti

Synopsis: In this ponderous French mystery-drama, based on an Ellery Queen story, blackmail would seem to be the least of the problems of Charles (Anthony Perkins). His adoptive father Theo (Orson Welles) has a madwoman for a mother, and a gorgeous woman of Charles' age (Marlene Jobert) for a wife. In fact Read More

12/1/71
Just Before Nightfall

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran, François Perier, Dominique Zardi, Jean Carmet, Henri Attal

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol, the French filmmaker known for his masterful explorations of crime, suspense, and the darker sides of human nature, directed this drama about a man forced to come to terms with his double life. Charles Masson (Michel Bouquet) is a successful ad man with a loving wife, Helene (Stephane Audran Read More

3/31/71
La Rupture

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Drouot, Catherine Rouvel

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Charlotte Armstrong, the story concerns Helene (Stephane Audran), the wife of a hopeless would-be writer and drug addict. Her husband's best friend tries to lay a trap for Helene, so that she will be forced to pay dearly for a divorce settlement. Also conspiring against Helene Read More

8/26/70
The Butcher

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Pasquale Ferone, Mario Beccaria

Synopsis: Sexual frustration is the focus of this Hitchcockian thriller from French director Claude Chabrol. Schoolteacher Hélène (Stéphane Audran) comes to a small Périgord village to begin a new job. She is soon romanced by the local butcher, Popaul (Jean Yanne), but is distracted by her job and memories Read More

2/27/70
Que la Bête Meure

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac, Marc di Napoli

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol directs the tense psychological thriller Que la Bête Meure (This Man Must Die). When his young son is the victim of a hit-and-run car accident, writer Charles Thenier (Michel Duchaussoy) is determined to find the killer. Obsessed with avenging his son's death, he carefully records Read More

9/5/69
The Unfaithful Wife

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet, Michel Duchaussoy, Guy Marly

Synopsis: Stéphane Audran plays the title character, Hélène Desvallées, the bored wife of insurance executive Charles Desvallées (Michel Bouquet). Charles suspects Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala (Maurice Ronet). Confronting Victor Read More

1/22/69
Et Crac

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Claude Chabrol

1969
Les Biches

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jacqueline Sassard, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Nane Germon, Henri Attal

Synopsis: Bored, wealthy Parisian socialite Frederique (Stéphane Audran, then director Claude Chabrol's wife and the star of many of his films) picks up young sidewalk artist Why (Jacqueline Sassard), brings her home, offers her a nice hot bath and coffee, and seduces her. Then Why follows Frederique to the Read More

3/22/68
Who's Got the Black Box?

Crew: Director

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Jean Seberg, Michel Bouquet, Christian Marquand, Saro Urzi

Synopsis: In this complex spy-thriller, the US radar installations in Greece are suddenly jammed and a NATO security agent is killed. The prime suspect is his own wife, who is innocent. She investigates on her own to prove it and ends up entangled in an espionage conspiracy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

10/27/67
Ligne De Demarcation

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Stéphane Audran, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The people of a small town in France react differently to the Nazi occupation in this World War II action drama directed by Claude Chabrol. Mary (Jean Seberg) is willing to risk her life to help the resistance movement in spite of her husband's acceptance of the situation. The movement is slowed Read More

1966
Le Scandale

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux, Suzanne Lloyd, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: This stylish psychological thriller from Claude Chabrol has such labyrinthine plotting that many critics called it too confusing. Christine Balling (Yvonne Furneaux) tries to convince Paul Wagner (Maurice Ronet) to sell his venerable champagne business to an American company. She asks her husband Read More

1966
Le Tigre Se Parfume a la Dynamite

Crew: Director

Actors: Roger Hanin, Roger Dumas, Michel Bouquet, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: Tigre (Roger Hanin) is a French undercover agent sent to stop ex-Nazis in their attempt to take over Latin America. He is captured and flogged by henchmen for the group who assist in political revolutions with men and money. Marilyn Monroe-clone Margaret Lee co-stars in this routine spy thriller Read More

11/5/65
Marie Chantal Contre Docteur Kha

Crew: Director

Actors: Marie Laforêt, Francisco Rabal, Serge Reggiani, Charles Denner

Synopsis: Marie (Marie Laforet) is a wealthy French female who receives a precious jewel from a secret service agent in this spy comedy. The agent is killed, and Dr. Kha (Akim Tamiroff) leads a group of international spies who are out to get Marie and the jewel. She is chased through several countries by Read More

8/25/65
Paris vu Par...

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Micheline Dax, Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran, Nadine Ballot, Barbara Wilkin, Jean-Francois Chappey, Jean-Michel Rouziere, Joanna Shimkus

Synopsis: A sextet of French filmmakers collaborated on Six in Paris (originally Paris vu Par...) Jean Douchet directed the film's first episode, "Saint Germain-des-Pres," the story of the up-and-down relationship between a male model (Jean-Francois Chappey) and an American coed (Barbara Wilkin). Jean Read More

1965
Le Tigre Aime la Chair Fraiche

Crew: Director

Actors: Roger Hanin, Maria Mauban, Daniela Bianchi, Roger Dumas

Synopsis: Roger Hanin stars as the secret agent LeTigre in this routine spy actioner. The film recycles a scene from Goldfinger with a car-smashing machine, but the results are less-than satisfying than other films of the genre. Daniela Bianchi plays Mika, the daughter of a Turkish diplomat. ~ Dan Pavlides Read More

11/18/64
Les Plus Belles Escroqueries Du Monde

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Francis Blanche, Catherine Deneuve, Gabriella Giorgetti, Nicole Karen

Synopsis: This anthology helmed by four talented filmmakers, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Hiromichi Horikawa, and Roman Polanski, allows viewers to meet and observe four international con artists. Each story is set within a different city. "Amsterdam" follows the attempts of a seductive Dutch woman to Read More

8/14/64
Landru

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Denner, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Juliette Mayniel

Synopsis: This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed, and dismembered over 10 women during WW I. He obtained his victims by placing ads in the Personals section of the paper. He then chose wealthy dowagers in their fifties. First Read More

1/25/63
L'Oeil du Malin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Stéphane Audran, Walter Reyer

Synopsis: In this French drama, a struggling writer is taken in by a successful author and his wife who allow him to use their Bavarian chateau so he can write his stories about Germany. The young writer is a bitter man, jealous of the couple's happiness. He decides he will destroy it, so when the older Read More

1962
Ophélia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alida Valli, André Jocelyn, Juliette Mayniel, Claude Cerval, Sacha Briquet

Synopsis: In this curious and inventive drama, director and co-writer Claude Chabrol purloins the Hamlet story from a certain Elizabethan bard, and has his characters move along the same plot outlines. Yvan (Andre Jocelyn) is overcome by grief when his father, a noted businessman, dies and is buried in Read More

1962
Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Crew: Director

Actors: Marie-José Nat, Jacques Charrier, Eddie Constantine, Nicole Mirel, Dany Saval, Marina Vlady, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by Dhomme, chronicles a single horrific day when every bowl of soup in France is found to contain a fly. This causes a devastating nationwide revolt. "Envy" by Molinaro tells the Read More

1962
Godelureaux

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Charles Belmont, Jean Tissier, Jean Galland

Synopsis: A generally destructive atmosphere settles over this New Wave drama about a trio of youths looking to debunk hypocrisy wherever they find it. One of the early films by Claude Chabrol, the tale looks at the relationship of Ronald (Jean-Claude Brialy), Ambroisine (Bernadette Lafont), and Arthur (Charles Belmont Read More

1961
Les Bonnes Femmes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Lucille Saint-Simon, Stéphane Audran, Mario David

Synopsis: The four young women work at the same place and each has to put up with a lecherous supervisor who talks out of one side of his mouth about good morals while the other side has the opposite message. One of the women, Jane (Bernadette Lafont) fixes herself up in a somewhat vulgar manner and goes Read More

4/22/60
Breathless

Crew: Artistic Advisor, Technical Advisor

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane David, Henri-Jacques Huet

Synopsis: The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune along the Read More

3/16/60
Paris Nous Appartient

Actors: Betty Schneider, Gianni Esposito, Françoise Prevost, François Maistre

Synopsis: Paris Nous Appartient begins at the end-with a mysterious suicide. Curious as to why a young Spaniard would take his own life, Betty Schneider visits many of the places frequented by the dead youth. She learns from theatre-director Giani Esposito that the suicide victim was part of a sinister Read More

1960
Les Cousins

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Claude Cerval, Geneviève Cluny

Synopsis: This was the first of several films that would win international awards for French New Wave director Claude Chabrol. His aloof, innovative approach to the simple story says as much as the plot itself in which two cousins symbolize polar opposites. Charles (Gerard Blain ) is the cousin from the Read More

1959
À Double Tour

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Antonella Lualdi, Madeleine Robinson, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean Valerie, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: New Wave director Claude Chabrol employs an aloof perspective in this tale of murder and a dysfunctional family. The paterfamilias Henri Marcoux (Jacques Dacqmine) is having a fling with the neighbor woman Leda (Antonella Lualdi). When she turns up murdered, police suspect the milkman, a friend of Read More

1959
Le Beau Serge

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michele Meritz, Bernadette Lafont, Edmond Beauchamp

Synopsis: Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol. Though not a murder melodrama, the film is heavily influenced by the works of Chabrol's idol Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt in particular. Ailing city dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) makes a therapeutic Read More

1958

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