The Sleeping Car Murders
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3.7/5 AlloCine Director Costa-Gavras Music director Michel Magne Duration Language French | 7.4/10 IMDb 77% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Mystery, Thriller Screenplay Costa-Gavras Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 1965 Writer Costa-Gavras, Sebastien Japrisot (novel) Initial release November 17, 1965 (France) Cast Jacques Perrin (Daniel), Catherine Allégret (Bambi), Yves Montand (Inspecteur Grazzi), Simone Signoret (Eliane Darès), Claude Mann (Jean-Loup), Michel Piccoli (René Cabourg)Similar movies Let's Be Cops , Se7en , Zodiac , Salt , The Secret in Their Eyes , Memories of Murder |
The Sleeping Car Murders (French title: Compartiment tueurs) is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot. It stars Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner and Pascale Roberts. This film was the first movie for Costa-Gavras, to be followed later by other, more politically serious work.
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Plot
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
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