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, t...
The Twist
1976
Les Biches
1968
The Other Side of the Wind
2018
The Seven Deadly Sins
1962
Animal
1977
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
2010
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
Greed
1962
Sale Destin
1987
Avida
2006
Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux
2003
Isabelle Huppert and Claude Chabrol: Crossed Portraits
1993
Godard Cinema
2023
Droit de Réponse
1981
Thieves After Dark
1984
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
2009
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
Follow My Gaze
1986
The Kreutzer Sonata
1956
L'été en pente douce
1987
Filmmakers in Action
2006
The Breach
1970
Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
2007
Le Beau Serge
1959
The Love Game
1960
The Color of Lies
1999
Six in Paris
1965
The Blue Panther
1965
Paris Belongs to Us
1961
Brigitte and Brigitte
1966
The Day of the Crows
2012
Les Bonnes Femmes
1960
Secrets of the Satin Blues
1981
Sodankylä Forever
2010
Saint-Tropez Blues
1961
Sam's Enough
1992
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
2019
Fool’s Mate
1956