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Diary of a Chambermaid 1964

7.4 /10

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Run Time: 97 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Mar 04, 1964

Director: Director: Luis Buuel,

Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Georges Gret, Michel Piccoli, Franoise Lugagne, Jean Ozenne,

Diabolique 1996

5.4 /10

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.

Run Time: 107 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Mar 22, 1996

Director: Director: Jeremiah S Chechik,

Stars: Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates, Spalding Gray,

The Infernal Trio 1974

6.3 /10

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...

Run Time: 107 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: May 22, 1974

Director: Director: Francis Girod,

Stars: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Mascha Gonska, Philippe Brizard, Jean Rigaux,

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun 2015

5.5 /10

She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only...

Run Time: 93 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Aug 05, 2015

Director: Director: Joann Sfar,

Stars: Freya Mavor, Stacy Martin, Benjamin Biolay, Elio Germano, Thierry Hancisse,

Monsieur Hire 1989

7.5 /10

A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.

Run Time: 81 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: May 24, 1989

Director: Director: Patrice Leconte,

Stars: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier, Andr Wilms, Philippe Dormoy,

Trap for Cinderella 2013

5.6 /10

A young girl, suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.

Run Time: 100 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Jul 12, 2013

Director: Director: Iain Softley,

Stars: Tuppence Middleton, Alexandra Roach, Kerry Fox, Frances de la Tour, Aneurin Barnard,

Death on the Nile 2022

6.3 /10

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot boards a glamorous river steamer with enough champagne to fill the Nile. But his Egyptian vacation turns into a thrilling search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

Run Time: 127 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Feb 09, 2022

Director: Director: Kenneth Branagh,

Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Emma Mackey, Tom Bateman,