Betty 1992  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Marie Trintignant, Stephane Audran, Jean-Francois Garreaud, Yves Lambrecht, Christiane Minazzoli, Pierre Vernier, Nathalie Kousnetzoff, Pierre Martot, Thomas Chabrol, Yves Verhoeven, Henri Attal, Emmanuelle Bataille
Divorced and legally barred from seeing her daughters, 28-year-old Betty (Marie Trintignant) is taken under the wing of middle-aged Laure (Stephane Audran). The two women spend their time drinking scotch and reminiscing through flashbacks. While Laure tries to help Betty, she makes the mistake of missing the flaws in Betty's personality and pays for it in the end.
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Perlasca: An Italian Hero 2002  N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Alberto Negrin
Cast: Luca Zingaretti, Jerome Anger, Amanda Sandrelli, Franco Castellano, Marco Bonini, Lorenzo Lavia, Elena Arvigo, Christiane Filangieri, Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Jean-Francois Garreaud
Based on real events surrounding Giorgio Perlasca's (Luca Zingaretti) efforts to save Jews from certain deaths in Hitler's camps, this film includes the bribes, lies, and Perlasca's impersonation of the Spanish consul–all means of surviving the Nazi occupation of Hungary.
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Violette 1978 R, 122 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller
aka: Violette Noziere
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Stephane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean-Francois Garreaud, Guy Hoffman, Lisa Langlois, Bernard Alane, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Dalmain, Mario David, Francois Maistre, Francois-Eric Gendron, Henri-Jacques Huet, Fabrice Luchini
Violette Noziere (Isabelle Huppert) is bored with her life but still finds thrills in Parisian cafes where she meets her lover Jean Dabin (Jean-Francois Garreaud). When Jean needs money, Violette devises a plot in which she can inherit money after she kills her parents, Baptiste and Germaine (Jean Carmet and Stephane Audran). Violette puts her plans into action, and Baptiste dies, but Germaine survives and sends Violette to prison. Based on a true story that took place in Paris during the 1930s.
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| 1. Betty (1992)
2. Perlasca: An Italian Hero (2002)
3. Violette (1978)
aka: Violette Noziere
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