Claude Chabrol
A founding father of French New Wave cinema, director Claude Chabrol's fascination with genre films, and the detective drama in particular, fueled a lengthy and celebrated string of thrillers, including "Les Bonnes Femmes" (1959), "Les Biches" (1968), La Femme Infidèle" (1968) and "Que la bête meure" (1969), which explored the human heart under extreme emotional duress. Chabrol began as a contributor to the celebrated film magazine Cahiers du Cinema alongside such film legends as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard before launching his directorial career in 1957. He quickly established himself as a versatile filmmaker whose innate understanding of genre tropes informed the complex triangular relationships at the center of many of his films, which frequently served as a prism through which commentary on class conflict could be obliquely addressed. Chabrol's mordant sense of humor and penchant for violent scenarios were alternately embraced and rejected by moviegoers over the course of his five-decade career, but the talent he displayed in depicting these dark deeds, as well as his status among the pantheon of French New Wave cinema, underscored his significance as one of his native country's most prolific and wickedly gifted craftsmen.
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Claude Chabrol
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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100% |
|
My Journey Through French Cinema | Himself (Voice) | $52.1K | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Day of the Crows | Le docteur (Voice) | - | 2012 |
73% |
|
Gainsbourg | Le producteur musique (Character) | $230.3K | 2011 |
88% |
|
Inspector Bellamy |
Director, Screenwriter |
$105.9K | 2009 |
73% |
|
A Girl Cut in Two |
Director, Writer |
$409.7K | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
|
Avida | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sophia: Ieri, oggi, domani | Self | - | 2007 |
82% |
|
Comedy of Power |
Director, Writer |
$78.9K | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cinema Goes to Dinner | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
93% |
|
The Bridesmaid |
Director, Writer |
$111.1K | 2004 |
65% |
|
The Flower of Evil |
Director, Screenwriter |
$181.8K | 2003 |
50% |
|
Unfaithful | Writer | $52.8M | 2002 |
84% |
|
Nightcap |
Director, Writer |
$443.2K | 2000 |
100% |
|
The Color of Lies |
Director, Writer |
- | 1999 |
71% |
|
The Swindle |
Director, Writer |
$245.4K | 1997 |
94% |
|
A Judgment in Stone |
Director, Writer |
$670.7K | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Son of Gascogne | Self | - | 1995 |
100% |
|
Hell | Director | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Eye of Vichy | Director | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Francois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits | Self | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
|
L'oeil De Vichy | Director | - | 1993 |
92% |
|
Betty | Director | - | 1992 |
63% |
|
Madame Bovary |
Director, Writer |
$1.9M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Quiet Days in Clichy |
Director, Writer |
- | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
|
Dr. M | Director | - | 1990 |
85% |
|
Story of Women | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Women's Affair | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alouette, je te plumerai | Pierre Vergne (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Cry of the Owl |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | L'Ete en Pente Douce | The priest (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Summer on a Soft Slope | The priest (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
|
Masks |
Director, Writer |
- | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
|
Inspector Lavardin |
Director, Writer |
- | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Je Haïs les Acteurs | Lieberman (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
|
Cop au vin |
Director, Writer |
- | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Polar | Théodore Lyssenko (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Blood of Others | Director | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La danse de mort | Director | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Heels | Director | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les Affinités Électives | Director | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le cheval d'orgueil | Director | - | 1980 |
80% |
|
Violette | Director | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
|
Stuntwoman | Le metteur en scène (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Animal | Le metteur en scène (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alice or the Last Escapade |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
|
Blood Relatives | Director | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Twist | Director | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Rite (Les magiciens) | Director | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
|
Dirty Hands | Director | - | 1975 |
63% |
|
Pleasure Party | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
|
Nada | Director | - | 1974 |
88% |
|
Wedding in Blood |
Director, Writer |
- | 1973 |
60% |
|
Ten Days' Wonder | Director | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Heels | Director | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
|
Just Before Nightfall |
Director, Writer |
- | 1971 |
100% |
|
The Butcher |
Director, Writer |
- | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Breach | Director | - | 1970 |
100% |
|
This Man Must Die |
Director, Writer |
- | 1969 |
77% |
|
Les Biches | Director | - | 1968 |
80% |
|
The Unfaithful Wife | Director | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet |
|
Who's Got the Black Box |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 1968 |
No Score Yet |
|
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers | Director | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Champagne Murders | Director | - | 1967 |
76% |
|
Six in Paris |
The father (Character), Director |
$13.9K | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blue Panther | Director | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hard Boiled Ones | Unknown (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ophélia | Director | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bluebeard | Director | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet |
|
Bluebeard | Director | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Seven Cardinal Sins | Director | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joker | Co-Producer | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les godelureaux | Director | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Third Lover | Director | - | 1961 |
78% |
|
The Good Girls |
Director, Writer |
$6.6K | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les jeux de l'amour | Producer | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Sign of Leo | Producer | - | 1960 |
80% |
|
Web of Passion | Director | - | 1959 |
94% |
|
The Cousins |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1959 |
95% |
|
Breathless |
Production Design, Technical Advisor |
$47.1K | 1959 |
100% |
|
Handsome Serge |
La Truffe (Character), Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
|
Fool's Mate |
Un invité de la surprise-partie (Character), Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Kreutzer Sonata | Cameo (Character) | - | 1956 |