Comedy, Crime, Drama
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sleeping Dogs Lie
The Devils
Libeled Lady
Steptoe & Son
Roberta
Until the Last Promise
King of the Lost World
Eyes Without a Face
Ivan's Childhood
Two
The 33
The Cameraman
Satantango
Torremolinos 73
Before the Rains
The Bed Sitting Room
Christmas Holiday
The Fallen Sparrow
They Shot the Piano Player
Scandal Sheet
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sleeping Dogs Lie
IMDB 5 | Jan , 1998
In 1919 theatre owner Ambrose Small sold his business and vanished. but who , if anyone, was responsible for his disappearance?The Devils
IMDB 7.5 | Jul , 1971
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by the sexually repressed Sister Jeanne.Libeled Lady
IMDB 7.3 | Oct , 1936
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.Steptoe & Son
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1972
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.Roberta
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1935
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.Until the Last Promise
IMDB 10 | Aug , 2024
One family's experiences with life and death.King of the Lost World
IMDB 4.3 | Dec , 2005
In this modern retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fantasy action-adventure classic, a commercial airliner crashes deep in the heart of the Amazon. Now, the survivors must face a mysterious and hostile world inhabited by giant scorpions, dragons, and a simian beast that stands ten stories tall.Eyes Without a Face
IMDB 7.6 | Jan , 1960
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.Ivan's Childhood
IMDB 7.8 | May , 1962
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.Two
IMDB 5 | May , 2007
This film was based on Zoran Zivkovic's stories, in which the main motif is number two: a number that unites a man and a woman, sky and earth, yin and yang... It also tells two stories that are merged into one whole.The 33
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 2015
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.The Cameraman
IMDB 7.9 | Sep , 1928
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.Satantango
IMDB 8.1 | Feb , 1994
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.Torremolinos 73
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 2003
Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.Before the Rains
IMDB 4.9 | Sep , 2007
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.The Bed Sitting Room
IMDB 5.9 | Jun , 1969
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.Christmas Holiday
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 1944
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.The Fallen Sparrow
IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 1943
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.They Shot the Piano Player
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 2023
New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.Scandal Sheet
IMDB 7 | Jan , 1952
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.