Dirty Hands
Original title: Les innocents aux mains sales / Innocents with Dirty Hands
“Savage Greed. Searing Sex. Shattering Suspense.”
1975 · 1 h 42 min
Claude ChabrolCast
Romy Schneider 
Rod Steiger 
François Maistre Paolo Giusti 
François Perrot 
Hans Christian Blech
Plot
Saint-Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, a writer and neighbor, plot to murder her husband.
Sinekatalog’s take
Claude Chabrol's thriller, with Rod Steiger and Romy Schneider, is cool, stylish and quietly wicked.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.8 / 10 (2,694 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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