Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a French director born in Paris, one of the founding figures of the French New Wave and its most consistent chronicler of bourgeois hypocrisy and murder. Often called the French Hitchcock, he built a decades-long career on precisely constructed thrillers exposing the tensions beneath provincial respectability, among them The Butcher, The Unfaithful Wife, and This Man Must Die. Story of Women, based on a real wartime abortion case, and La Cérémonie, a class-conscious murder drama starring Isabelle Huppert, showed his sustained interest in violence erupting from social constraint. Working prolifically into his eighties, Chabrol remained the New Wave's most disciplined genre craftsman, favoring cool irony and formal control over the stylistic experimentation of his peers.
Claude Chabrol
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Claude Chabrol was a French director born in Paris, one of the founding figures of the French New Wave and its most consistent chronicler of bourgeois hypocrisy and murder. Often called the French Hitchcock, he built a decades-long career on precisely constructed thrillers exposing the tensions beneath provincial respectability, among them The Butcher, The Unfaithful Wife, and This Man Must Die. Story of Women, based on a real wartime abortion case, and La Cérémonie, a class-conscious murder drama starring Isabelle Huppert, showed his sustained interest in violence erupting from social constraint. Working prolifically into his eighties, Chabrol remained the New Wave's most disciplined genre craftsman, favoring cool irony and formal control over the stylistic experimentation of his peers.
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The Unfaithful Wife
1969
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This Man Must Die
1969
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La Cérémonie
1995
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The Butcher
1970
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Madame Bovary
1991
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Torment
1994
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Story of Women
1988
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Bluebeard
1963
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Death Rite
1975
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The Champagne Murders
1967
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Nightcap
2000
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Line of Demarcation
1966
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The Seven Deadly Sins
1962
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The Twist
1976
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Dr. M
1990
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Quiet Days in Clichy
1990
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Violette Nozière
1978
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A Girl Cut in Two
2007
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The Nada Gang
1974
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Inspector Lavardin
1986
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Wedding in Blood
1973
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Just Before Nightfall
1971
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Les Biches
1968
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Le Beau Serge
1959
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The Hatter's Ghost
1982
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964
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Bellamy
2009
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The Swindle
1997
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Alice or the Last Escapade
1977
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The Cousins
1959
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The Third Lover
1962
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Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975
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À double tour
1959
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Cop au Vin
1985
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Comedy of Power
2006
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Ten Days' Wonder
1971
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Betty
1992
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The Flower of Evil
2003
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Les Bonnes Femmes
1960
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The Breach
1970
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The Color of Lies
1999
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The Cry of the Owl
1987
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Scoundrel in White
1972
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Blood Relatives
1978
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The Bridesmaid
2004
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Six in Paris
1965
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A Piece of Pleasure
1975
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The Horse of Pride
1980
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Masks
1987
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The Blue Panther
1965
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Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
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Bellamy
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2009
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Le Petit Fût
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2008
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A Girl Cut in Two
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2007
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Chez Maupassant
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2007–
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Comedy of Power
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2006
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The Bridesmaid
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2004
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The Flower of Evil
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2003
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Coup de vice
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2001
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Claude Chabrol still alive?
Claude Chabrol passed away on September 12, 2010 at age 80.
What are the most famous roles of Claude Chabrol?
Claude Chabrol is best known for directing Breathless, La Cérémonie, The Butcher.
How many movies has Claude Chabrol directed?
Over a 54-year career (since 1956), Claude Chabrol has directed or written 64 films and worked on 4 TV shows.
What was Claude Chabrol's first movie?
The career of Claude Chabrol began with Fool’s Mate (1956).
What is Claude Chabrol's most recent movie or series?
Claude Chabrol's most recent release is Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe, which premiered on March 10, 2009.
What TV shows has Claude Chabrol created or directed?
On television, Claude Chabrol has appeared in Fantômas, Chez Maupassant, Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe, The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin.
Claude Chabrol
1930-06-24 · Paris, France
Claude Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker.
Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in Les Biches (1968), La Femme Infidèle (1969) and Le Boucher (1970) — all featuring his then-wife, Stéphane Audran.
Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozière. On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovary (1991) and La Ceremonie (1996).Claude Chabrol, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia