Les Sept péchés capitaux is a French film comedy first released in 1962, directed by Philippe de Broca, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy, Sylvain Dhomme, Max Douy, Jean-Luc Godard, Eugène Ionesco, Edouard Molinaro and Roger Vadim.  The film stars Danièle Barraud, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacques Charrier and Claude Rich.  It has also been released under the title: The Seven Capital Sins.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


Anger: A friendly mood prevails throughout a small town one Sunday after church.  Everyone seems to like one another and not a single unpleasant word is exchanged.  But the atmosphere soon changes at lunchtime, when every man finds a fly in his soup.  Anger soon works his mischief...

Envy: A chambermaid is pursuing a happy love affair with a young man at the hotel where she works, but she is jealous of the more glamorous life that she sees others lead.  When she has what she desires, it is the old life she begins to covet...

Gluttony: A man, his wife and his mother-in-law set out to attend the funeral of a family member who died from excessive eating and drinking.  On the way, all three of them cannot stop themselves from taking refreshments, ensuring that the family tradition will continue...

Sloth: A young woman will do anything to seduce an actor but his laziness will prove stronger than her love...

Lust: Two young men have been obsessed with the idea of lust since their childhood.  But when they finally get to know what lust is, its power only manifests itself in their dreams...

Pride: A married woman has a lover but her pride prevents her from accepting that her husband has a mistress.  If she has to end her own affair to keep her husband for herself so be it...

Avarice: A party of students want to spend a night with a prostitute but they cannot afford her fee.  So they each contribute a small amount and decide that one of them should go.  In the morning, the prostitute has a pang of conscience and decides to return the money, but she only hands over the part that her client himself contributed...
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