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Claude Chabrol Collection, The (1968)
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Stephane Audran,
Michel Bouquet,
Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Caroline Cellier,
Marc Di Napoli,
Michel Duchaussoy,
Maurice Garrel,
Paolo Giusti,
Marlene Jobert,
Mariangela Melato,
Anthony Perkins,
Jean Rochefort,
Maurice Ronet
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Director:
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Claude Chabrol
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Suspense,
Mystery
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Pathfinder Home Entertainment
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Subtitles: |
English
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Length: |
852 mins
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A limited edition collection of eight classic films from France's master of suspense.
Includes: The Unfaithful Wife When he discovers his wife is having an affair, a husband is driven to kill her lover and then cover up the crime. But nothing is what it seems..
Les Biches Socialite Frederique encounters a young student Why on the streets of Paris, seduces her and whisks her off to spend winter with the chic crowd of St. Tropez. When architect Paul meets Why, he too charms her and comes between the two lovers.
Frederiqe then seduces Paul out of jealousy, but finds herself feeling real love.
Le Boucher In a provincial French town, a sophisticated schoolmistress avoids attachments but strikes up a congenial friendship with the charmingly passionate local butcher, a veteran of Indochina. As a serial killer spreads terror throughout the countryside, the effort of these two people to come back from their emotional islands to some kind of mutual understanding and reality builds from oblique tenderness and humor to tragedy.
Ten Days' Wonder An eccentric tycoon lives in an Alsatian chateau with his young wife, whom he has groomed since taking her in as a poor orphan, and his adopted son, a sculptor given to hallucinary fits that cause him to fear he has unknowingly committed murder. Of course Perkins and Jobert are having a passionate affair and being blackmailed, which sets in dizzying motion the complex plot.
Inncents With Dirty Hands Julie and her young lover, Jeff plot to murder Julie's rich and impotent husband Louis Wormser and make it look like an accident.
After the deed, Jeff disappears and Julie is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband, but through the efforts of a clever and manipulative lawyer, she is released. Upon returning home, she discovers her husband Louise, has returned in what proves to be the first of many plot twists.
This Man Must Die The film begins with a view of a young boy leaving a beach and a speeding Mustang approaching from the opposite direction. The two collide, in a hit-and-run accident. The boy's father, Charles, makes a solemn vow to find and kill the man who ended his son's life.
La Rupture Helene is a good mother with a checkered past as a stripper and barmaid. She divorces her ne'er-do-well husband and her in-laws blame her for causing her husband's addiction and set out to remove their grandchild from Helene's custody. Thwarted by the courts, they hire a seedy penniless operative, Paul, to destroy her reputation.
Nada Nada is the name of a small terrorist group who plans and executes the kidnapping of the American ambassador to Paris from a brothel, secreting him away in an isolated farmhouse while they wait for a response to their demands.
As the police close in on the kidnappers, it becomes apparent that the French authorities are less concerned with the safe return of the ambassador and more with turning the incident against the Nada, leading to an explosive and violent confrontation between the police and the terrorists.
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