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What is the best Henri-Georges Clouzot film of all time?

By YPB Team

Eleven features covering the thrillers that built his reputation, one documentary, and a couple of comedies almost nobody has seen. Put them in order.

  1. Les Diaboliques — ranked #11
    Les Diaboliques
    A 1955 thriller in which a headmaster's wife and mistress conspire to murder him, and the body vanishes.
    1000pts
  2. The Wages of Fear — ranked #22
    The Wages of Fear
    A 1953 thriller about four desperate men hauling nitroglycerine across South American mountain roads.
    873pts
  3. Miquette et sa mere — ranked #33
    Miquette et sa mere
    A 1950 comedy about a provincial girl chasing a stage career with her mother in tow.
    668pts
  4. La Verite — ranked #44
    La Verite
    A 1960 courtroom drama starring Brigitte Bardot as a young woman on trial for killing her lover.
    565pts
  5. Manon — ranked #55
    Manon
    A 1949 drama transplanting the Abbe Prevost novel to the black markets of postwar France.
    565pts
  6. Quai des Orfevres — ranked #66
    Quai des Orfevres
    A 1947 police procedural following a Paris murder investigation through the city's music-hall world.
    439pts
  7. La Prisonniere — ranked #77
    La Prisonniere
    Clouzot's final film, a 1968 drama about an art gallery assistant drawn into a photographer's obsessions.
    439pts
  8. Les Espions — ranked #88
    Les Espions
    A 1957 Cold War thriller set in a nearly empty clinic overrun by rival secret agents.
    439pts
  9. Le Corbeau — ranked #99
    Le Corbeau
    A 1943 drama about poison-pen letters tearing apart a small French town during the Occupation.
    0pts
  10. The Mystery of Picasso — ranked #1010
    The Mystery of Picasso
    A 1956 documentary filming Picasso as he paints on glass, watching each work appear and change.
    0pts
  11. The Murderer Lives at Number 21 — ranked #1111
    The Murderer Lives at Number 21
    Clouzot's 1942 debut, a comic detective story about an inspector hunting a serial killer in a boarding house.
    0pts

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