H.-G Clouzot
1) Torment
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
A stressed-out hotel manager, gradually develops paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity. As he succumbs to his paranoia his life begins to fall apart, with disastrous consequences.
Series
Criterion collection volume 36
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
Français
Description
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France's legendary master of suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot....
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Français
Description
Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 227
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt.
Series
Criterion collection volume 36
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
In a small, isolated, hot and dusty Central American village, there's only one thing to do: dream of getting out. An opportunity for escape presents itself, but only to those with nerves of steel. An American oil company has offered to pay big money to get two trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over to a well fire. The catch is that the unpaved terrain contains enough bumps and crags to make the unstable material explode, instantly killing the driver....
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Suspense classic that influenced Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. A sadistic headmaster of a boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared.