Henri-Georges Clouzot

From French master filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot (often referred to as the 'French Hitchcock' and director of the mesmerising Les Diaboliques, 1955), this existential thriller and 1953 Cannes winner follows four truck drivers transporting dangerous payloads across South American terrain.

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.

A doctor (Pierre Fresnay) becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, when letters accuse him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders in this French mystery from 1943.