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1960s Movies / Claude Chabrol Movies

Landru (1963)

October 8, 2020January 6, 2023 - by greatmovies

Landru movie storyline. During World War I, a seemingly respectable middle-aged man Henri Landru has devised an ingenious means of obtaining money to supplement his dwindling income. Adopting various assumed names, he lures middle-class women to his villa at Gambais just outside Paris, where he kills them and burns their bodies.

1960s Movies / Claude Chabrol Movies

Ophelia (1963)

September 21, 2020January 9, 2023 - by greatmovies

Ophelia movie storyline. After the death of his father, the weirdo Yvan Lesurf believes his mother Claudia Lesurf and his uncle Adrien Lesurf have poisoned him since they got married to each other. Completely disturbed and insane, the cruel Yvan decides to make a film based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet to expose the wealthy Claudia and Adrien to their friends in their community. He also calls his sweetheart Lucie Ophélia in a tragedy foretold.

1950s Movies / Claude Chabrol Movies

Les Cousins (1959)

August 20, 2020January 15, 2023 - by greatmovies

Les Cousins movie storyline. Charles (Gérard Blain) is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul’s (Jean-Claude Brialy) flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man.

1960s Movies

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

July 1, 2020February 8, 2023 - by greatmovies

Eyes Without a Face movie storyline. At night just outside Paris, a woman drives along a riverbank and dumps a corpse in the river. After the body is recovered, Dr. Génessier identifies the remains as those of his missing daughter, Christiane Génessier, whose face was horribly disfigured in an automobile accident that occurred before her disappearance, for which he was responsible.