A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.

Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad luck.—Stephan Eichenberg <[email protected]>

After losing his job at the bank where he'd worked for 30 years, Henri Verdoux must find a new way to support his family; Mona and son, Peter. His new occupation is to marry women - then kill them off once he gets his hands on their money. He proves to be quite adept at it, using several aliases, he has several wives at any given time. When his fortune is wiped out in a stock market crash he seems to realise his own end is near and gives himself up when he's recognised by a victim's relative.—garykmcd

France, late 1920s. After working for 30 years at a bank, Henri Verdoux is laid off. The world is in the middle of a depression and work is hard to find. To support his wife and child, Verdoux takes to a life of crime - marrying rich women, murdering them and taking their money. After a while the police start to piece the puzzle together.—grantss

In the late 1920s after thirty years of faithful service, Paris bank clerk Henri Verdoux is relieved of his duties due to the depression. To support his polio-stricken wife Mona and their adolescent son Peter, he decides as his next career to be self-employed by becoming a modern day Bluebeard: using a number of different aliases, woo and marry unsuspecting well-off elderly women, and when he has stripped them of their money, kill them. He has many different women on the go at any given time. He is unaware that some of those women had a past themselves, some people who are looking for their missing "loved ones". With fourteen dead wives and one other person dead as collateral damage, Verdoux may have met his match in who may be the most annoying of all his wives, the brash and loud mouthed Annabella Bonheur, a nouveau riche who came about her money by winning a lottery and who seems to be immune to his unknowing attempts to kill her. Verdoux may get a different view of life in his sporadic relationship with a down and out young woman, on who he was intending to test a new more efficient poison to use on his victims, and conversely who is continually grateful to him for his kindness to her.—Huggo