Belle de jour / Beauty of the Day (1967)
Drama | Romance
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian
Director: Luis Buñuel
Le pont du Nord / North Bridge (1981)
Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery
Marie is a claustrophobic ex-con who, shortly after wandering into Paris, encounters the wild and potentially troubled young woman Baptiste. Baptiste accompanies Marie on her quest to solve the mystery behind the contents of her former lover's suitcase.
Starring: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-François Stévenin
Director: Jacques Rivette
Sweet Movie (1974)
Comedy | Drama
The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard for sex, death, and revolutionary talk. The beauty queen passes from a wealthy husband whose honeymoon delight is to urinate on her, to a muscular keeper who punches her, stows her in a suitcase, and ships her to Paris, to a lip-synching rock idol with whom she has a love spasm, to an Austrian commune complete with a banquet of vomit, urine, feces, chopped dildos, and wet nurses. By then she's in a fetal position, until everyone's rescued by reminders that "it's just a movie."
Starring: Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey, Jane Mallett, Roy Callender, John Vernon
Director: Dusan Makavejev
