

Diabolique
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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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- Language
- English
- wife
- female lover
- morgue
- swimming pool
- teacher
- plan gone wrong
- mistress
- black and white
- french noir
- boys' boarding school
- headmaster
- philanderer
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR21 Nov 1955
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A19 Apr 1955
- Physical12Blu-ray5 Jun 2017
AlgeriaDZ
- Theatrical6 May 1955
AustriaAT
- Theatrical1 Oct 1955
BelgiumBE
- TheatricalAL25 Mar 1955
BrazilBR
- Physical16DVD26 Jan 1999
- Theatrical (limited)CINUSP (Mostra "Remakes")28 Jan 2025
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical31 Aug 1955
FinlandFI
- Theatrical30 Mar 1956
FranceFR
- Theatrical29 Jan 1955
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1628 Apr 1955
ItalyIT
- Theatrical31 Oct 1956
JapanJP
- TheatricalG19 Jul 1955
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Diabolique was released on 29 January 1955.
Audience reviews
2- T10/10
talisencrw
8/10/2016
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.
- J10/10
John Chard
2/8/2017
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…
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