← Back

Genealogies of a Crime

Original title: Généalogies d'un crime

“Is she the murderer, the victim, or both?”

1997 · 1 h 43 min
Directed by Raúl Ruiz
CrimeDramaThriller

Cast

Catherine Deneuve Michel Piccoli Melvil Poupaud Bernadette Lafont

Plot

A psychological thriller about a lawyer and a murder.

Sinekatalog’s take

Raúl Ruiz's playful thriller has a lawyer defending a young woman accused of murder while a psychoanalytic puzzle of doubles and identities unfolds. Catherine Deneuve is cool and sly in a labyrinthine, witty and elegantly strange film.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.4 / 10 (1,019 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

If you liked this

Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.