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Diabolique
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #739
- IMDb #264
- Rotten Tomatoes #137
- Letterboxd #247
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #313
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #272
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 27, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 96, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The frail wife and the confident mistress of a cruel boarding school headmaster conspire to murder him. After successfully carrying out their plan and disposing of the body in the school's murky swimming pool, they are horrified when the pool is drained and the body is nowhere to be found. Strange occurrences begin to suggest that the man may still be alive, tormenting them from beyond the grave.
Details
- Director
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Writers
- Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jérôme Géronimi
- Based on
- She Who Was No More by Boileau-Narcejac
- Studio
- Véra Films, Filmsonor
- Released
- 29 January 1955
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rated
- NR
- Awards
- 5 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →5 wins from 5 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1956 | Best Foreign Film | Winner | |
| National Board of Review 1955 | Top Foreign Film | Winner | |
| New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1955 | Best Foreign Film | Winner | |
| Louis Delluc Prize 1954 | Best Film | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Winner |
| Louis Delluc Prize 1954 | Best Actress | Simone Signoret | Winner |
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| Best Film | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Winner |
| Best Foreign Film | Winner |
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