Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 American black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, who plays a bigamist wife killer inspired by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru.
Henri Verdoux had been a bank teller for 30 years before being laid off. To support his disabled wife and his child, he begins marrying and murdering wealthy widows. The Couvais family becomes suspicious when Thelma Couvais withdraws all her money and disappears two weeks after marrying a man named Varnay, whom they only know through a photograph.
Verdoux tries to woo Marie Grosnay, but she refuses. Over the following weeks, Verdoux has a flower girl repeatedly send Grosnay flowers. In urgent need of money to invest, Verdoux, now posing as M. Floray, visits Lydia Floray, one of his previous victims and convinces her the financial crisis is imminent so she takes her savings out of the bank. The following night, Verdoux murders her and takes the money.
At a dinner party with his real wife, Verdoux asks a friend of theirs, a chemist, about the drug he developed to exterminate animals painlessly. The chemist explains the formula and that he had to stop working on it after the local pharmaceutical board banned it, so Verdoux attempts to recreate the drug.
Spoken languages: English
Subtitles: Danish,Swedish,Norwegian,Finnish
