Claude Chabrol — Playwright (47)

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Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
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★ 6.4 5 ratings
Claude Chabrol actor: 西尔维娅·克里斯蒂 / 夏尔·瓦内尔 …
other title: 爱丽丝最后的逃离 / Alice ou la dernière fugue …
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.

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The Break Up (1970)
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other title: 春光破碎 / La rupture …
Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia, who rarely wears clothes, plots to ruin Helene's reputation and then her very life.

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Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
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克洛德·夏布洛尔 actor: 罗密·施奈德 / 罗德·斯泰格尔 …
other title: 无辜的凶手 / Les innocents aux mains sales …
Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?

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This Man Must Die (1969)
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★ 7.8 6 ratings
克洛德·夏布洛尔 actor: 米歇尔·迪绍苏瓦 / 卡罗利娜·塞利埃 …
other title: 禽兽该死 / Que la bête meure …
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.

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Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
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other title: 克里西区的静静日子 / Jours tranquilles à Clichy
The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. He meets the Polish Karl and they become friends and costumers of brothels and restaurants. When the fifteen year-old Colette arrives in Paris, they both fall in love with her. Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris. Very nice portrait of the thirties..., 23 April 2002 Author: Oreste (oreste.sl@sympatico.ca) from Montréal, Québec Different from many other Chabrol movies that follow "Hitchock-like" patterns, _Jours tranquilles à Clichy_ relates the days a young American writer (Henry Miller) spent in the Gay Paris of the early thirties, with his polish-descent friend and their young Colette, a 14 years old-ish girl with whom they both fall in love. The story in itself doesn't send us from a surprising even to another but slowly lifts the curtain over the prostitution, pornography, libertinage and partying that seemed to oppose Paris so much to New York, in the eyes of Miller, searching for a change from the dull like he lead before. The story is a quest for Proust and his lost time, a quest for a new life, for thrills, for truth in forgetting oneself...

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The Flower of Evil (2003)
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★ 6.6 5 ratings
other title: 恶之花 / La fleur du mal …
富裕的中產階級女主人決定競選市長,男主人從不支持,留學美國多年回來的兒子與異父異母的妹妹(其實算是家族裡的表妹)相愛了。接著一封揭發這個家族三代以來的罪行(前納粹份子,謀殺父親,謀殺配偶,亂倫)的告密信件擾亂這養尊處優的家庭。罪惡如同癌症基因,遺傳到每一代成員。叢林般的客廳,讓身處其中的每個人,仿如流著惡露之華美植物。夏布洛冷靜批判中產階級的鏡位,讓外在言行世故優雅的人類,現出人性的幽暗內在。 Source: 台北金馬影展

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The Cousins (1959)
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★ 7.5 28 ratings
克洛德·夏布洛尔 actor: 热拉尔·布兰 / 让-克洛德·布里亚利 …
other title: 表兄弟 / Les cousins …
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.

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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)
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★ 6.0 5 ratings
other title: 完美的骗子 / Les plus belles escroqueries du monde …
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 Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.

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The Third Lover (1962)
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★ 8.3 13 ratings
克洛德·夏布洛尔 actor: 雅克·夏里尔 / 斯特凡·奥德朗 …
other title: 魔鬼的眼 / L'oeil du Malin …
On a work assignment in Germany, failed journalist Albin crosses paths with Andreas, a successful writer, and his wife Hélène, who quickly becomes the apple of Albin’s eye. While Andreas is off on a business trip, Albin tries to seduce Hélèn and, eventually, take over Andreas’ life.