The Breach
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
The Third Lover
The story of a journalist in southern Germany who stays with a novelist and his wife and gradually begins to destroy the young couple’s lives.
The Flower of Evil
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Bellamy
A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.
The Blue Panther
Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin’s place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger – apparently a fugitive from someone aboard – entrusts her with a jewel in…
Madame Bovary
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with…
Story of Women
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…
La Cérémonie
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her…
The Champagne Murders
A champagne tycoon’s partner suspects his partner’s gigolo husband of murders he’s been framed for.
Betty
Drunk, Betty is feeling worse and worse, the previous evening is slowly coming back to her: her husband and her husband’s family had criticized her harshly, had sent her away….
Ophélia
A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
Quiet Days in Clichy
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Six in Paris
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are…
The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan (“Fumiko’s Five Benefactors” by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands (“A River of Diamonds” by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy (“The…
Line of Demarcation
Line of Demarcation. is a 1966 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is La Ligne de démarcation. It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires…
The Butcher
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.
Inspector Lavardin
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.