The Butcher

Year: 1970

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: French

Director: Claude Chabrol

CrimeThrillerDramaIntense violence and sexual transgressionThrillers and murder mysteries

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

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