The best Claude Chabrol’s thriller movies

Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol

24/06/1930- 12/09/2010
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Paris Belongs to Us

Paris Belongs to Us
6.7/10
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.

The Breach

The Breach
7.2/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 26/08/1970
  • Character: Passenger on the Tram
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.

Polar

Polar
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 21/03/1984
  • Character: Théodore Lyssenko
This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder of her roommate, a porno star. Soon Tarpon is up to his neck in trouble: the police, gangsters, and the victim's lover are all out to get him.

The Blue Panther

The Blue Panther
5.3/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeThriller
  • Release: 25/08/1965
  • Character: Customer complaining of his fruit juice
Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger - apparently a fugitive from someone aboard - entrusts her with a jewel in the shape of a tiger with ruby eyes. Unknown to her, these false jewels contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind. Doctor Kha is just one among many spies from different nations trying to get their hands on the tiger, or Marie-Chantal... It will give any nation a tremendous control over all others! Marie-Chantal, a snob girl, will evade all attacks by sheer female cunning, and shows tigerish qualities in dealing with her male, and female foes.

Thieves After Dark

Thieves After Dark
5.7/10
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.

Who's Got the Black Box?

Who's Got the Black Box?
5.1/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 27/10/1967
  • Character: Alcibiade
The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy about the sabotage of U.S. radar installations while trying to prove her innocence.

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