La Bête Humaine
Directed by Jean Renoir
Produced by Paris Film Production
A dark, psychologically complex drama of desire and violence centered on a tormented railwayman's entanglement with a troubled married couple, exploring the destructive forces lurking beneath human connection.
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.
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