History Film / SerieNoire

* NoIndoorVoice: Sometimes, Franck talks as if he was shouting at the top of his lungs.

* DancingWithMyself: Franck dances alone outside of his cars during the opening credits, for no particular reason.

Franck Poupart (Creator/PatrickDewaere) is a door-to-door salesman. His wife Jeanne (Myriam Boyer) leaves him after he knocks her into a bathtub filled with water after she refuses to make him dinner following one more rant about their dire situation. Then he gets imprisoned for embezzlement. Mona (Creator/MarieTrintignant), an underage prostitute, bails him out and persuades him to rob her rich aunt (Jeanne Herviale). Poupart kills the aunt, and then murders his accomplice to frame him for the crime. However, his streak of bad luck ("série noire" in French) continues, for his wife returns, unannounced and pregnant, and suspects him of murder. He murders her, and then his boss robs him of his booty, leaving him alone and broke with the besotted Mona.

Franck Poupart (Creator/PatrickDewaere) is a door-to-door salesman. His wife Jeanne (Myriam Boyer) leaves him after he knocks her into a bathtub filled with water after she refuses to make him dinner following one more rant about their dire situation. Then he gets imprisoned for embezzlement. Mona (Marie Trintignant), an underage prostitute, bails him out and persuades him to rob her rich aunt (Jeanne Herviale). Poupart kills the aunt, and then murders his accomplice to frame him for the crime. However, his streak of bad luck ("série noire" in French) continues, for his wife returns, unannounced and pregnant, and suspects him of murder. He murders her, and then his boss robs him of his booty, leaving him alone and broke with the besotted Mona.

Franck Poupart (Creator/PatrickDewaere) is a door-to-door salesman. His wife leaves him after he knocks her into a bathtub filled with water after she refuses to make him dinner following one more rant about their dire situation. Then he gets imprisoned for embezzlement. Mona, an underage prostitute, bails him out and persuades him to rob her rich aunt. Poupart kills the aunt, and then murders his accomplice to frame him for the crime. However, his streak of bad luck ("série noire" in French) continues, for his wife returns, unannounced and pregnant, and suspects him of murder. He murders her, and then his boss robs him of his booty, leaving him alone and broke with the besotted Mona.

* FromBadToWorse: Franck's situation, from an AwfulWeddedLife to going to prison for embezzlement and then murder.

* TheSeventies: Made right at the end of the decade, with the cars, clothes, haircuts and music (such as Caude François) looking and sounding accordingly.

* FromBadToWorse: Franck's situation, from an AwfulWeddedLife to going to prison for embezzlement to murder.

* KitchenSinkDrama: Franck and Jeanne have been married for some time, and they've never been able to become homeowners, instead living in one slum after the other. Jeanne leaves after one more dispute where she ended up shoved in the filled bathtub.

''Série noire'' is a 1979 French crime film directed and written by Alain Corneau and co-written by Georges Perec. It [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapts the novel]] ''A Hell of a Woman'' by Jim Thompson.

* NoIndoorVoice: Sometimes, Franck talks as if he was shouting at the top of his lungs, such as in the prison scene.

* SexForServices: The woman Franck sells a bathrobe to at the beginning offers to pay him with an "intimate moment" in the company of her 16 year old niece Mona... Franck follows Mona in her room, then she completely undresses right in front of him. Probably feeling a JailBait due to her age (and being married), Franck quickly has her dress up again and lectures her.

* StealingFromTheTill: Franck steals money from his business, which gets him denounced by his boss and imprisoned.

* SpeechesAndMonologues: Franck monologues quite often.

* EnemyEatsYourLunch: When Franck is at a bar, a drunk leather jacket-wearing hooligan drinks his beer right in front of him, then kisses him on the mouth.

* KitchenSinkDrama: Franck and Jeanne have been married for some time, and they've never been able to become homeowners, instead living in one slum after the other.

Franck Poupart (Creator/PatrickDewaere) is a door-to-door salesman. His wife leaves him after he knocks her into a bathtub filled with water after she refuses to make him dinner after one more rant about their dire situation. Then he gets imprisoned for embezzlement. Mona, an underage prostitute, bails him out and persuades him to rob her rich aunt. Poupart kills the aunt, and then murders his accomplice to frame him for the crime. However, his streak of bad luck ("série noire" in French) continues, for his wife returns, unannounced and pregnant, and suspects him of murder. He murders her, and then his boss robs him of his booty, leaving him alone and broke with the besotted Mona.

Franck Poupart (Creator/PatrickDewaere) is a door-to-door salesman. His wife leaves him when he knocks her into a bathtub filled with water after she refuses to make him dinner. Then he gets imprisoned for embezzlement. Mona, an underage prostitute he meets early in the film, bails him out and persuades him to rob her rich aunt. Poupart kills the aunt, and then murders his accomplice to frame him for the crime. However, his streak of bad luck ("série noire" in French) continues, for his wife returns, unannounced and pregnant, and suspects him of murder. He murders her, and then his boss robs him of his booty, leaving him alone and broke with the besotted Mona.

* SexForServices: The woman Franck sells a bathrobe to at the beginning offers to pay him with an "intimate moment" in the company of her 16 year old niece Mona... Franck follows Mona in her room, then she completely undresses right in front of him. Probably feeling a JailBait due to her age (and being married), Franck quickly has her dress again and lectures her.

* SexForServices: The woman Franck sells a bathrobe to at the beginning offers to pay him with an "intimate moment" in the company of her 16 year old niece Mona... Franck follows Mona in her room, then she completely undresses right in front of him. Probably feeling a JailBait due to her age, Franck quickly has her dress again and lectures her.

* SexForServices: The woman Franck sells a bathrobe to at the beginning offers to pay him with an "intimate moment" in the company of her 16 year old niece Mona... Franck follows Mona in her room, then she completely undresses right in front of him. Probably feeling a JailBait, Franck quickly has her dress again.