Merci Pour Le Chocolat (aka Nightcap)
World Cinema Classics
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Drama, Thriller, UR, 01-Sep-2000
Isabelle Huppert stars as the wife of a concert pianist who discovers some unusual secrets about her husband's past, in Claude Chabrol's deliciously icy mystery.
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