Quelqu'un derrière la porte (1971) Directed by Nicolas Gessner
Crime / Drama
aka: Two Minds for Murder
Film Synopsis
Laurence Jeffries is a renowned neuro-psychiatrist. At his clinic
in Folkestone, he receives a new and interesting subject, a man who
knows nothing about his past. Unwittingly, the amnesiac is to
play a crucial part in a Machiavellian plot devised by Jeffries.
The latter knows that his wife Frances is having an affair with another
man, Paul Damien. Jeffies intends to convince his patient that
Damiens is responsible for the death of his one true love, thereby
programming him to seek revenge against a man he has never met.
It will be the perfect crime...
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.