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Watch: Les Diaboliques 1955 123movies, Full Movie Online – Christina Delassalle suffers greatly at the hands of her brutish husband Michel. She inherited the boys’ boarding school they run but it’s clearly Michel who is in charge. She and Nicole Horner, one of the teachers and Michel’s former lover, decide to kill him. Christina, who has a serious condition, is terrified when, by chance, she meets a retired police inspector who decides to look into the case..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	8.1/10 Votes: 66,227
	96% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 754 Popularity: 12.089 | TMDB

Reviews:

I have only seen but two of Clouzot’s films (this and the equally brilliant ‘The Wages of Fear’), but I understand immediately what connoisseurs mean when they say he’s the French Alfred Hitchcock. He has an innate and unbelievably vivid and accurate take on human nature. I can’t wait to check out the rest of his oeuvre.

The keys in the pool, the husband in the morgue! You dream too much about water in this house!

Headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delaselle (Paul Meurisse) is a brooding bully of a man, one day his wife and mistress decide enough is enough and plot to kill him, trouble is that once they murder him, his body disappears and reported sightings of him are adding to the ladies’ paranoia.

Thus is the setting for director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s brilliant suspenser. The pace is stiflingly perfect, he gently racks up the tension, neatly toying with audience expectation, the sense of dread that hangs in the air is palpable. How refreshing it is to see a suspense film actually build its plot for a good hour? In this day and age the MTV generation would be walking out of this after 30 minutes. Armand Thirard’s atmospheric photography accentuates the creeping menace like mood, to the point that when we get to the last 15 minutes, nerves are already frayed and we then of course get what is arguably the greatest bath scene ever, and “that” ending…

When I first watched it back in 2008 it was on a poor quality DVD, but revisiting it on Blu-ray it still worked me over as the great suspense movie it is, forcing me to seek the solace of daylight ASAP. Great writing, great directing, great acting, the latter thriving due to Simone Signoret’s dangerously simmering sexuality and Véra Clouzot’s heartfelt vulnerability. It’s one of the classic chillers of European cinema. And if you haven’t seen it yet? Do what I did last night, get the Blu-ray, turn off the lights and just have a couple of candles flickering away in your peripheral vision. Maybe indulge in some stiff drinks like I did, and most of all, watch it on your own… 9/10

Watch this film alone……and be afraid.
Are you alone? good. Have you turned off the lights? good.Is there a storm brewing in that dark foreboding sky?Excellent. Do you like brilliant black and white movies? Wonderful.Now, sit back and enjoy the best of the best. This is quite simply the best psychological thriller ever made.Often imitated but never bettered. If you have a problem with subtitled films then don’t worry because you will understand this film without reading them. If you want slash and gore, go elsewhere.If you want sophisticated entertainment,you’ve come to the right place.Georges Cluzot’s finest work is a thing of beauty as is his wife Vera, who stars opposite Simone Signoret as the schoolmaster’s wife.From the very start it is very clear that all is not as it seems. But why? and who? What is the terrible secret of the swimming pool and later on, the bathtub? As the tension builds to an unbearable climax, we sit and hide behind our hands, peering through the gaps in our fingers.Oh my God!! it can’t be!…..it is! Do not confuse this movie with the disgraceful remake starring Sharon Stone. All copies of that disaster should be burned. Watch this movie if you are a serious film buff. Rent something else if you have the attention span of a goldfish.Brilliant. 10/10

The Greatest Film Hitchcock Did Not Make.
Hitchcock must have forever wondered how he managed to allow this story to slip out of his hands, but the fact remains: had he filmed CELLE QUI N’ETAIT PAS into his own version of what is known as LES DIABOLIQUES, there very well might not have been a VERTIGO, also an adaptation from the authors of the aforementioned one and D’ENTRE LES MORTES. All in all, this is an excellent horror film that has strong Film Noir overtones and precedes New Wave by a couple of years and its simple yet powerful direction by Jean Georges-Clouzot elevates it from a standard thriller to one to which all others are measured spawning countless imitations with much less satisfying degree. One wonders what treatment Hitchcock would have given it, and interestingly, it’s all here: the almost casual presentation of spousal abuse that occurs off-camera in one chilling scene early on, the events that lead the women (Vera Clouzot and Simone Signoret) to make a drastic decision concerning killing Clouzot’s husband (Michel DelaSalle), and then the growing, deadly certainty he may not be quite dead after all… and may be after the terrified women. The last 15 minutes are one of the most tension-inducing I’ve ever seen in any climactic montage (even if it does veer into a certain implausibility but the intent is to tell a suspense story and Hitchcock has often mentioned the “suspension of disbelief” factor) and have long gone into history as one of the most horrific moments in cinema.

To those interested in watching LES DIABOLIQUES, please do NOT watch its American remake, DIABOLIQUE, with Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani. It pays to read the subtitles in this film.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 57 min (117 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Drama, Horror
Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Henri-Georges Clouzot
Actors Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse
Country France
Awards 4 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (A.R.T.E.C.)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France
Film Length 3,230 m (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm