The Butcher (1970)
Le Boucher
"An outstanding new film by one of France's leading directors."
ThumbScore
👍 82%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 100%
(RT: 100%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Roger Rudel as Commissioner Grumbach
Antonio Passalia as Angelo
Mario Beccara as Léon Hamel
William Guérault as Charles
Pascal Ferone as Father Charpy
Is The Butcher good?
Most people think so. 82% audience score, estimated from 294 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 100%.
Overview
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town. Wikipedia ↗
