Fresh
Le Boucher has us always thinking.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Butcher
An outstanding new film by one of France's leading directors.
1970 · 1h 33m · Unrated
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Claude Chabrol
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The Butcher
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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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