1965 · thriller · crime · mystery
The Sleeping Car Murders
Directed by Costa-Gavras1h 29m1965
Six people travel by overnight train from Marseilles to Paris. When they arrive, one of them, a young woman, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police, led by Inspector Grazzi, investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one among them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the others start turning up dead. It's up to the remaining two to solve the case, lest they become the next victims.
Our read: The Sleeping Car Murders (1965) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · crime · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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