Lies & Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol (Blu-ray), Arrow Video, Drama

Five-disc set includes: Cop Au Vin (1985)Tackling once again his favorite subject of the dark secrets lurking within seemingly normal lives, director Claude Chabrol crafts a tasty suspenser set in a remote French village whose quiet normalcy is brutally interrupted by a series of killings. Jean Poiret is Inspector Lavardin, the taciturn detective who arrives to catch the guilty party and uncovers a string of interconnected crimes. Lucas Belvaux, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet also star. 100 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR Inspector Lavardin (1986)Jean Poirot reprises his role as the urbane crimesolver from "Cop Au Vin," called in to find out who stabbed a blue-nosed provincial notable and wrote "PIG" on the corpse's back in lipstick. Lavardin's investigation takes an unexpected turn when he learns the dead man's wife is a former lover. Stylish Claude Chabrol thriller also stars Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy. 100 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR Madame Bovary (1991)Claude Chabrol's lavish filming of Flaubert's controversial novel stars Isabelle Huppert as Emma, a woman in 19th-century France who sacrifices her marriage to a staid doctor for a series of affairs which lead only to disaster. With Christophe Malavoy, Jean-François Balmer. 140 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: PG-13 Betty (1992)Claude Chabrol's audacious examination of the life of Betty, a mysterious woman who recounts her fall from Parisian bourgeois society into a demimonde of alcoholism and depravity to a curious listener in a bar. Marie Trintignant, Stéphane Audran and Jean-François Garreaud star in this stirring film. 105 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR Torment (1994)French cinema's suspense master, Claude Chabrol, offers up a man's chilling descent into mistrust, paranoia and deadly rage. François Cluzet stars as a hotel owner who suddenly suspects beautiful wife Emmanuelle Béart of being unfaithful and turns violently jealous. 100 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR Widescreen; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurettes; image galleries; theatrical trailers