"Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne, an ambitious doctor, and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan. Drugging Mireille, the pair drown her in a bathtub, but in the morning, before the "accidental" death can be discovered, the corpse is gone--so begins the unraveling of Ferdinand's plot, ..."
"Soon intrigue would be replaced by obsession, and dreams replaced by nightmares. This is the story of a desperate man. A man who ended up compromising his own morality beyond all measure, while World War Two raged outside his front door."
"No longer with the police for reasons he did not care to remember, Flavieres was not a man to be surprised by little side-slips of human conduct. So, when his old friend Paul Gevigne wanted him to keep an eye on his wife, Flavieres thought the reasons were pretty obvious."
"No one was. Mireille had drunk a soporific. A bathtub was filling up. That was all.
There was nothing terrible about it, and nothing which had anything to do with
crime. Admittedly he had poured out a glass for Mireille. But he had poured many
a ..."
"The story could have happened to any of us, but it happened to a man named Flavieres. His days as a detective were over, and everyone knew he had his reasons. But when an old friend appeared out of nowhere with concerns about his withdrawn and mysterious wife, Flavieres didn't have the heart to refuse. And soon he would be scouring the streets of Paris in search of an answer - in search of a girl who belonged to no one, not even to hers ..."
"Diabolisch ist Jeremiah Chechiks aufpolierte 1996er Version des französischen Film-Noir-Originals aus dem Jahre 1955, Les diaboliques (Die Teuflischen), in dem sich zwei Lehrerinnen einer Knabenschule anschicken, den Direktor zu töten. Die Drei bilden eine Dreiecksbeziehung aus Rache und Betrug, aus der sich schließlich die betrogene und gedemütigte Ehefrau gemeinsam mit der Geliebten erhebt, um sich zu rächen. Isabelle Adjani (Queen Ma ..."
"BODY PARTS is a bone-chilling tale about a medical experiment gone wrong. After a crime psychologist (Fahey) loses his arm and nearly his life in a grisly car accident, he undergoes a daring medical operation to have a donor arm grafted onto his body. But after the operation, the arm starts to take on a violent life of its own, striking out against Bill's wife and children. Consumed by fears about his dangerous behavior, Bill is driv ..."
"BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES � New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack � New high-definition digital restoration of Blood of the Beasts, Georges Franju�s 1949 documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris � Archival interviews with Franju on horror, cinema, and the making of Blood of the Beasts � New interview with actor Edith Scob � Excerpts from Les grand-p�res du crime, a 1985 documentary ..."
""Gute Reise"Der junge Schotte Dougall ist im Zweiten Weltkrieg Pilot der Royal Air Force. Nach seiner erfolgreichen Flucht aus einem deutschen Kriegsgefangenenlager wird er in London zu den mysteriösen Umständen seines Entkommens befragt. In Rückblenden erzählt Dougall, wie er mit einem polnischen Begleiter, mit dem er zusammen aus dem Lager floh, durch das besetzte Frankreich flüchtete. ‘Gute Reise‘ ist einer von zwei Filmen, die Hitch ..."
"Although it wasn't a box-office success when originally released in 1958, Vertigo has since taken its deserved place as Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, most spellbinding, most deeply personal achievement. In fact, it consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made in the once-a-decade Sight & Sound international critics poll, placing at number 4 in the 1992 survey. (Universal Pictures' spectacularly gorgeous 1996 restoration and rerel ..."
"Plus qu'un policier, c'est incontestablement l'un des premiers films d'épouvante français. Tiré d'un roman de Boileau-Narcejac, en voici la recette : un meurtre particulièrement dur, un coup de théâtre final, une atmosphère d'épouvante. Grâce à cette adaptation qui lui permet de déployer sa noirceur et son pessimisme légendaires, Henri-Georges Clouzot décroche le plus grand succès commercial de sa carrière. Il faut dire que rien n' ..."