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You can stream Le Corbeau (1943) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.

Unlike typical whodunits where a detective hunts a killer, this psychological nightmare turns a quiet village into a paranoid frenzy of mutual betrayal. An anonymous letter writer dismantles a community by weaponizing their darkest secrets against one another.

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