Innocents With Dirty Hands (1975) (Les Innocents aux mains sales) is another Claude Chabrol crime thriller with familiar plot elements: a young and gorgeous woman married to a man much richer than herself; the sea and the confrontation in a boat, etc.

The film features two mega stars: Lovely Romy Schneider as Julie Wormser and volatile Rod Steiger as her impotent but rich husband Louis Wormser.

Add to that the young stud-next-door Jeff Marle (acted by Paolo Giusti), and you've got yourself a classic explosive triangle that does not fail to produce some deadly fireworks.

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This Man Must Die (1969) (Que la bête meure) is a Claude Chabrol thriller with some of the same structural elements shared by quite a few of his other films like the sea as an important background element and a nasty antagonist introduced in mid-plot who dominates the rest of the story.

A little child getting murdered is another Chabrol motif that is repeated here. Perhaps Hitchcock was correct when he said all directors mainly shoot the same movie over and over again throughout their careers.

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