Pioneer of French noir who set multiple crime thrillers on the Côte d'Azur, blending existential darkness with Mediterranean settings in films like 'Le Samouraï'.
Claude Chabrol FranceMaster of psychological crime dramas who frequently filmed in Provence and the Riviera, exposing the sinister underbelly beneath the region's glamorous surface in works like 'La Femme Infidèle'.