Watch Order
0 / 11 watchedEleven key features in release order. A starter pick, not the full fifty film run.
About Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol directed more than fifty features, so this guide picks eleven key titles as a starting path. It opens with Le Beau Serge in 1958 and Les Cousins in 1959, the films that helped launch the New Wave, then moves to Les Bonnes Femmes in 1960. The middle run covers Les Biches in 1968, La Femme infidele in 1969, Le Boucher in 1970, La Rupture in 1970 and Juste avant la nuit in 1971, his classic bourgeois thriller stretch.
The late run covers Violette Noziere in 1978 with Isabelle Huppert, Story of Women in 1988 and The Ceremony in 1995. Watch in release order. The films are standalone studies of guilt and class, and the sequence shows his shift from New Wave drama to cool suspense and late crime stories.
Good to know
These are standalone stories with no shared continuity, so there is no separate chronological order worth listing. New viewers can start with Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins or Le Boucher before the later thrillers. Chabrol died in 2010, so this run is complete. French titles vary in translation: La Femme infidele is The Unfaithful Wife, La Rupture is The Breakup and Juste avant la nuit is Just Before Nightfall.
