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Les Cousins **** (1959, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel) – Classic Movie Review 3554
Director Claude Chabrol re-unites with Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain, his stars from the previous year’s Le Beau Serge, for this outstanding 1959 French New Wave drama that won him the Golden Bear award at […]
Le Beau Serge [Bitter Reunion] **** (1958, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Michèle Méritz) – Classic Movie Review 3553
The 28-year-old film critic Claude Chabrol made his leap onto the screen as writer-director of this influential 1958 first film which had the distinction of being the very movie that set off the French Nouvelle […]
Inspecteur Lavardin **** (1986, Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont) – Classic Movie Review 3552
This polished 1986 thriller is a successful second trip by director Claude Chabrol into territory that he carved out as his own – the French provincial thriller. Jean Poiret easily sustains a smooth and seemingly effortless reprise […]
Poulet au vinaigre [Cop au Vin] **** (1985, Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet) – Classic Movie Review 3551
Mystery genre master Claude Chabrol’s highly popular 1985 French cop thriller, wittily and punningly called Cop au Vin for its English-language release, is directed in style by the esteemed French director, expert concoctor of French provincial […]
The Cry of the Owl *** (2009, Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Karl Pruner) – Classic Movie Review 3550
Director Jamie Thraves also writes the screenplay of this intriguing 2009 thriller, adapting the novel by Patricia Highsmith that had already provided a most satisfying movie version in 1987 from masterly Claude Chabrol, The Cry of the […]
The Cry of the Owl [Le cri du hibou] **** (1987, Christophe Malavoy, Mathilda May, Jacques Penot, Virginie Thévenet, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Agnès Denèfle) – Classic Movie Review 3549
Director Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful 1987 version of the Patricia Highsmith book is the usual civilised pleasure from him. It is properly dour, dark and brooding in the Highsmith tradition, with an ironic sense of black humour, faithful to the […]
Indian Uprising ** (1952, George Montgomery, Audrey Long, Carl Benton Reid) – Classic Movie Review 3548
Forties Hollywood leading lady Audrey Long plays Norma Clemson in her final film in 1952, after which she retired at the age of 30, having made around 30 low-budget Westerns and film noir thrillers, including […]
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- Woman’s World *** (1954, Clifton Webb, Lauren Bacall, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Cornel Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 13,912
- A Woman’s Vengeance [The Giaconda Smile] **** (1948, Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Ann Blyth, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 13,911
- Terror from the Year 5000 [Cage of Doom] * (1958, Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens) – Classic Movie Review 13,910
- The Puppet Masters ** (1994, Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Keith David, Julie Warner, Andrew Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 13,909
- Fuze ** (2025, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Elham Ehsas, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 13,908
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