Bourgeois Jacqueline Bisset thinks she’s hired the perfect housekeeper in Sandrine Bonnaire, until her new employee’s budding relationship with postal worker Isabelle Huppert threatens to upend everything. Chabrol’s witty, nerve-wracking riff on classic thriller conventions expertly dissects issues of class and stands as one of his finest achievements of the ’90s. (Jan to Feb ’97)

In French with English subtitles