Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

The Burned Barns (1973)

The Burned Barns poster
Original title
Les Granges brûlées
Directed by
Jean Chapot
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
12
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 74 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman disappears in a rural French village, and the local judge investigates the family living in the burned barns. The story uncovers secrets and lies among the family members as the search for the truth intensifies.

melancholicmysteriousslow-burntensebleakintrospectiveearthybrooding

What happens

The Burned Barns (French: Les Granges brûlées) is a 1973 French drama film directed by Jean Chapot. The film score was composed by Jean Michel Jarre and released as album in 1973. In 2003, the soundtrack album was reissued on CD by Disques Dreyfus. The album has been reissued again in 2023 on vinyl and digital formats from Transversales on Bandcamp. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?