High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Obsession is a 1954 French language motion picture crime drama directed by Jean Delannoy who co-wrote screenplay with Antoine Blondin, Roland Laudenbach and Gian Luigi Rondi, based on story "Silent as the Grave" by Cornell Woolrich. The film stars Michèle Morgan and Raf Vallone. It tells the story of a couple forming a circus trapeze, and they are involved in a murder case.