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Purple Noon

Original title: Plein soleil · Turkish title: Kızgın güneş

“Passion at ten. Envy at eleven. Murder at noon.”

1960 · 1 h 58 min
Directed by René Clément
CrimeDramaThriller

Cast

Alain Delon Maurice Ronet Marie Laforêt

Credits

Written by: Patricia Highsmith

Plot

A charming young man hired to bring back a rich playboy from Italy murders him and takes over his identity. After Patricia Highsmith.

Sinekatalog’s take

René Clément's sun-drenched thriller of Tom Ripley is cool, stylish and morally ambivalent. Alain Delon is magnetic, and the sparkling Mediterranean setting contrasts with a dark, cruel story.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (24,634 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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