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A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.
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Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphaël Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with chief inspector Hélène Bach to solve the city's most disturbing crimes. But there's one case that continues to haunt him, the murder of his wife over a decade ago.
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"In a provincial French apartment block, Monsieur Hire endures a solitary life of dulling work as a tailor and vitriolic scorn from his neighbors. Hire's only solace is an occasional night out bowling and the voyeuristic admiration of his neighbor. ... When police discover the nude body of another young woman in a nearby vacant lot, Hire becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation."--Container.
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As a forensic pathologist in Paris, Raphal͡ Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. He solves the city's most disturbing crimes with no-nonsense chief inspector Hľn̈e Bach, who, in Series Two, helps him reopen the one case that still haunts him: his wife₂s murder. ₁Solid and inviting crime drama₂ TV Insider.
7) La vérité
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Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique₂s fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot₂s Oscar-nominated La vérité delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
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Devastated by his friend's death, Parisian forensic pathologist Raphal͡ Balthazar has vowed never to touch a corpse again. But his resolve wavers when he discovers a dead body while sailing, and soon he₂s working once more with Chief Inspector Hľn̈e Bach, who₂s closing in on their most elusive suspect: his wife's killer.
10) Monsieur hire
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Adapted from the book by Georges Simenon, Monsieur Hire is a film of gorgeously muted widescreen color and 'funereal beauty' (The Washington Post) that coolly unpacks sexual obsession and romantic love with intelligence and understated intensity. A young girl is brutally murdered. The prime suspect is a cold and reclusive man who is obsessed with his beautiful neighbor. He spends his nights watching her through his window, but when she discovers that...
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Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphael Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else, as a forensic pathologist in Paris.
"Seven months after his life was upended, Balthazar (Tomer Sisley) is still dealing with the fallout from his partner leaving and the revelations about his wife. Then Captain Camille Costes (Constance Labbé) steps in to work with the troubled forensic pathologist. Outspoken and boundlessly energetic, she has a bone...
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Moreau, who won the award for Best Actress at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, is Anne Desbard̈es, a wealthy, bored housewife who believes she has witnessed a murder in a quayside bistro. Rushing to the scene of the crime, she strikes up a conversation with Chauvin, an employee of her husband who also saw the crime. The troubled woman continues to return to the caf,̌ increasingly identifying herself with the murder victim and becoming obsessed with...
13) Serie noire
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Franck, a door-to-door salesman married to Jeanne, is looking for a customer who owes money when he meets Mona, a seventeen-year-old who lives with her rich and hateful aunt. Franck's wife Leaves and his boss has him arrested for embezzlement. But Mona pays back the money and suggests he kill her aunt to get hold of her fortune.
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In 1930s France, Superintendent Larosiere has a passion for beautiful women and solving cases, while hapless young inspector Lampion just tries to keep up. And in the mid-50s, ultra-suave Commissioner Laurence unravels the knottiest crimes. These French adaptations are a fresh, stylish twist on classic Christie tales.
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Rousseau is a bestselling crime novelist from Paris, troubled by writer's block. Candice Lecoeur is a local beauty gracing the famous Belle de Jura cheese packaging who has gotten it into her head that she might well be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. The two will meet in the coldest village in France, but only after Candice has been found dead.
17) L'humanite
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Criterion collection volume 981
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It's the story of a profoundly alienated police detective who, while investigating the murder of a young girl, experiences jolting, epiphanous moments of emotional and physical connection. Demonstrating Dumont's deftness with nonactors and relentlessly frank depiction of bodies and sexuality, it is at once idiosyncratic police procedural and provocative exploration of the tension between humankind's capacity for compassion and one's base, sometimes...
18) La poison
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Criterion collection volume 891
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After thirty years together, a village gardener and his wife find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial.
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In this black-as-night French-Italian comedy, Jacques Dufilho plays a father who has carefully planned the execution of the nine jurors who sent his son to the gallows. Dressed in black, on a black motorcycle with his elderly mother in the sidecar, the vengeful man calmly and methodically does away with each of the nine in the span of a single day, before the police or anyone else can stop him.
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Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor's office, and fearing a miscarriage of justice, she convinces a leading lawyer to defend him during his second trial, on appeal. Together, they will put up a tenacious fight against injustice.
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