L'enfer (aka Torment)
World Cinema Classics
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Drama, V (Violence), S (Sexual Content), UR, 01-Nov-1994
A husband's jealousy and suspicion of his wife drive him to appalling extremes in Claude Charbrol’s unsettling psychological thriller.
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