On ne meurt que deux fois (1985)
Directed by Jacques Deray

Film Synopsis

In the early hours, Insector Staniland comes across the badly mutilated dead body of a man named Charly Berliner.  Believing this to be a straight-foward case, Staniland's superior Bauman expects him to wrap it up in no time.  At the victim's home, Staniland finds several cassette recordings which reveal Berliner's passion for a certain Barbara Spark.  When, a short while later, the inspector meets Barbara for himself he is struck by her sensual allure.  But what is he to think when she admits, in an ironic tone, that she killed Berliner?  Before he knows it, Staniland has fallen completely under Barbara's spell...