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Directed by Claude Chabrol
Likely to be dubbed ‘the French Hitchcock’ until the end of time, Claude Chabrol was the first of those tagged ‘the French New Wave’ to actually get a film out (Le Beau Serge in 1958); he has since amassed a vast body of work spanning six decades, much of which arguably sets Chabrol apart from his contemporaries in terms of both how dark it can be but also how consistent… Recommended Films directed by Claude Chabrol
 The Claude Chabrol Collection (Volume 1)1968-91, Claude Chabrol, DVD A collection of eight films from one of the leading lights of the nouvelle vague, now one of the elder statesmen of French Cinema, Claude Chabrol, also affectionately known as 'The French Hitchcock'. Features Les Biches, La Femme Infidele, Que La ...
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The Claude Chabrol Collection (Volume 2)Claude Chabrol, DVD Claude Chabrol is considered a master in the mystery genre – so much so that he is affectionately known as the “French Hitchcock” - and is credited with starting the "nouvelle vague" French film movement that spawned Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer a...
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 Madame Bovary1991, Claude Chabrol, DVD Unfaithful wives don't come any more insubordinate than Flaubert's jaded Emma, and renditions of Emma don't come any more alluring than Huppert's. Drifting like a lost saint among the dreary trappings of rural Normandy, she becomes consumed by the...
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 Le Boucher1969, Claude Chabrol, DVD Possibly Chabrol's best known and most critically acclaimed film, it is consistently taut with engrossing twists in the director's own script. A tense and enthralling thriller set against the wonderfully observed background of provincial French li...
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 L Enfer1993, Claude Chabrol, DVD Jealousy. An incisive portrait of the obsessional and tortured world of a jealous man who suspects a relationship between beautiful wife and handsome friend. Imaginings become hallucinations and interior voices and irrationality grow in a well-sus...
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 Merci Pour Le Chocolat2000, Claude Chabrol, DVD Huppert plays a villanous spider at the centre of an intricate and murderous web of deception. She harbours a dark and mysterious secret, one which is in danger of being exposed by the arrival of a mysterious young woman who may be her stepdaughter.
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 La Ceremonie1995, Claude Chabrol, DVD Adapted from Ruth Rendell's chilling novel, this is one of Chabrol's most celebrated films. Wealthy family the Lelievres have taken on the extremely efficient but strangely detached Sophie as their live-in maid. Her free time is spent alone in her...
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 Les Noces Rouges1973, Claude Chabrol, DVD Aka Wedding in Blood. One of Chabrol's best films, in which small-town mayor's assistant Pierre is having an affair with the mayor's wife. When Pierre's wife suddenly dies in an apparent suicide, town gossips believe there is more to it than meets...
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Rien Ne Va Plus1997, Claude Chabrol, DVD A couple of small time con artists travel around France, living off their swindles. When they become caught up in an international money laundering scam the situation becomes a little more complex. Elegant, playful and irreverent and filled with t...
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 Les Biches1968, Claude Chabrol, DVD Rightly deserving its reputation as compelling sensual cinema, this is a well-played out puzzle of a menage-a-trois. Wealthy Frederique picks up penniless Parisian sidewalk artist Why and takes her to St Tropez. There Why takes to a young architec...
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 Que La Bete Meure1969, Claude Chabrol, DVD Aka This Man must Die. An astute, beautifully acted study in obsession with a tight and complex screenplay by Paul Gegauff. When his son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles is determined to take revenge. After a long investigation, a chan...
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 La Femme Infidele1968, Claude Chabrol, DVD First in the celebrated Hélène cycle, in which his then spouse and frequent collaborator Stephane Audran portrays a character whose provocative and often predatory nature leads to marital disruption, betrayal and even murder. A magnificently waspi...
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 Juste Avant La Nuit1971, Claude Chabrol, DVD Aka Just before Nightfall. Advertising executive Charles Masson is having an affair with the wife of his best friend, Laura. When one of their S&M games goes too far, and Laura is strangled, Charles finds it increasingly difficult to cope with his...
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 The Bridesmaid2004, Claude Chabrol, DVD A thriller, adapted from a Ruth Rendell novel, set in the anonymous outskirts of Paris. Philippe attends a wedding and exchanges glances with the mysterious bridesmaid, Senta. She declares that they are destined to be together and asks him to prov...
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 Nada1974, Claude Chabrol, DVD Chabrol takes political terrorism as his subject here, with Nada being the name of a small terrorist group that kidnaps the American ambassador, hiding him in an isolated farmhouse while they wait for a response to their demands. As the police cl...
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