Jean-François Garreaud

Claude Chabrol's Violette was based on the true story of 19-year-old Violette Noziere, who in the 1930s was tried and convicted for the poisoning of her father and the attempted murder of her mother. (All Movie Guide)

French new wave director Claude Chabrol presents a complex narrative based on a novel by Georges Simenon in which two women form a dependent bond on a rainy night. Rescuing the broken-down Betty (Marie Trintignant) from an evening with a seedy suitor, the glamorous Laure (Stephane Audran) brings her back to her Parisian hotel, where the bedraggled woman recounts a sordid past through flashbacks filled with abandonment, alcohol and angst. (Netflix)

A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty. (imdb)

Alain Delon produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in this story about a solitary thief, jailed for a jewel robbery and the murder of the jeweler, and set free after serving his prison term. His objective is to get his hands on the stolen jewels before a crowd of gangsters reaches them and/or kills him, and before the police can catch up with him again. The hero-thief-murderer manages to romance an attractive woman in the meantime, suggesting his future might be rosier than his past. (allmovie.com)