A Tale of Ham and Passion / Jamón Jamón (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Jordi Mollà, Juan Diego
Director: Bigas Luna
Senso '45 / Black Angel (2002)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
March 1945 Asolo, Italy. Livia Mazzion, the attractive wife of a top ministry official, slips into the car of lawyer Ugo Oggiano, Livia's admirer and her husband's informer. Livia must reach Venice and her lover Helmut Schultz, a Wermacht lieutenant, as beautiful and accursed as a pagan god, with whom she is having a burning love affair. During the trip she relives the high points of her devastating sexual abandonment gone adrift, one that has shattered her life and her destiny, swallowing her up in the ruinous vortex of a sybaritic and bituminous Venice. The city, in the throes of the final months of the war, is rife with traffickers, officials, nabobs, military brass, sharks and adventurers of every kind. Yet a surprise awaits Livia upon her arrival in Venice, a surprise in which the heroes' own personal defeats interweave with those public, as historical and political events now seek to settle accounts.
Starring: Anna Galiena, Gabriel Garko, Franco Branciaroli, Loredana Cannata, Antonio Salines
Director: Tinto Brass
Le mari de la coiffeuse / The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets. Much later in life, he seeks to repeat his romance by marrying Mathilde – also voluptuous and also a hairdresser – with whom he forms an intimate and consuming relationship in an attempt to blot out the miseries of this world from their lives.
Starring: Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin, Anne-Marie Pisani, Maurice Chevit, Philippe Clévenot
Director: Patrice Leconte
