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Directors: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1991)

The action is set in a French city after a nuclear war or some equivalent global catastrophe. The story revolves around a bizarre group of neighbors living in an apartment building situated over a butcher shop, the operator of which is also their landlord. With meat in short supply and beans and legumes being used as currency, the residents of the building take to desperate measures to stay fed and routinely lure in unsuspecting new tenants, whom they then kill and cannibalize. The hero is an unemployed clown, who is the latest victim to move in, and begins an affair with the butcher’s daughter, while trying to survive constant attempts on his life.

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With: Pascal Benezech, Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac.