Les Nerfs à vif
Il ne lui restait plus qu'une arme : le meurtre !
1962 • 106 min • Thriller · Drama · Crime
Our family guide
Best from age 16- 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
- 75 Audience · 651 · 49%
Après avoir purgé sa peine pour un crime brutal, Max Cady traque l'avocat qui l'a fait incarcérer et terrorise sa famille. Le harcèlement méticuleux de Cady pousse les Bowden à leurs limites, les forçant à affronter une menace terrifiante qui semble toujours rester juste dans les limites de la loi.
- Violence & peril
- 7/10
- Language
- 3/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 4/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 5/10
- Scary moments
- 8/10
Heads up
- Terreur psychologique intense et prolongée
- Scènes d'agression sexuelle et de harcèlement implicites
- Brève violence forte, incluant un chien blessé
What it models well
- Justice et conséquences
- Protection familiale
- Résilience face à la crise
Talk about it after
- Le système judiciaire et ses limites
- Jusqu'où iriez-vous pour protéger votre famille ?
- La nature de la peur et de la manipulation psychologique
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Top billed cast
Director: J. Lee Thompson • Crew: James R. Webb
Trailers & clips
Cape Fear (1962) Official Trailer Gregory Peck Movie HD
Rod Lurie on CAPE FEAR
Reviewer notes
RecommendedTrusted family reviewers**A good thriller with a lot of suspense and tension, which deserved to be reviewed and re-fished for new audiences.** There are films that are unfairly forgotten after the release of their respective contemporary remakes, and I have no doubt that this one can be included in that list.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersMax Cady isn't a man who makes idle threats. Max Cady is fresh out of prison and down in Florida looking for someone in particular. That person is lawyer Sam Bowden, the man who Cady holds responsible for his years of incarceration.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.5/10 (651)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $35,000,000
- Box office
- $103,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0055824