Diabolique

About Diabolique

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Diabolique (1955) is a mystery thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Véra Clouzot takes the lead as Christina Delassalle, Simone Signoret as Nicole Horner, Paul Meurisse as Michel Delassalle, and Charles Vanel as Police Inspector Alfred Fichet.

It runs 118 minutes and was released in January 1955. Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jérôme Géronimi.

Members will find swimming pool, wife, mistress, and morgue in it. In the United States it streams on Artify, HBO Max, and HBO Max Amazon Channel. It scores 7.9 out of 10 from 1,140 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Manhattan, and Breathless make useful companions to Diabolique, all filed under black and white, boys' boarding school, and headmaster.