Les Diaboliques
Original title: Diabolique · Turkish title: Şeytan ruhlu insanlar
“See it, be amazed at it, but...BE QUIET ABOUT IT!”
1955 · 1 h 57 min
Directed by 
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges ClouzotCast
Simone Signoret 
Véra Clouzot 
Paul Meurisse
Credits
Written by: Pierre Boileau
Plot
The wife and mistress of a brutal headmaster plot to murder him, and then his body vanishes.
Sinekatalog’s take
A wife and mistress plot to kill a cruel schoolmaster, and things go wrong. Clouzot's thriller is a twisty chiller, famed for its bathtub scene and for the plea not to reveal the ending.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 8.1 / 10 (74,066 votes)
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