If you loved The Butcher, try La Cérémonie
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Claude Chabrol, and they both carry the dread, paranoid mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Butcher, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What La Cérémonie is
Brittany. Autumn. A slammed gate. New domestic Sophie keeps mostly silent, absorbing the casual contempt of her employers. But local postwoman Jeanne whispers of righteousClass resentment simmers in Chabrol's late-period procedural.

