Annie Girardot

Erika is a music teacher in Vienna living a hermetic, love-hate existence with her overbearing mother, escaping only to visit porn cinemas and peepshows. When she meets clean-cut, charismatic student Walter, Erika’s carefully calibrated lifestyle is threatened. Control trades hands between student and teacher, as Erika’s masochistic tendencies are inflicted upon Walter during a torrid affair.

An inventor thinks he finally made it after receiving an order of 5,000 machines from a group of Japanese businessmen.

A man and a woman from France, both married to other people, fall in love while traveling in the US and embark on a passion-fueled cross-country trip.

Five brothers move north with their mother to Milan, finding fame in the boxing ring and love in the same woman. Labeled by Scorsese as “one of the most sumptuous black-and-white pictures,” this is a timeless story of modernity, class tension, and family drama by director Luchino Visconti and staring Alain Delon.

An achingly romantic vision of wanderlust and unsettled ennui, Earth Light is the most optimistic of Guy Gilles’s features. Like his earlier films, it’s a rhythmic, fragmented study in memory, and how the pleasures of the present moment can stave off the emotional dead-ends of a regretful past.

A sinister doctor (Gérard Depardieu) purposely infects a promiscuous woman (Anouk Grinberg) with a sexually transmitted disease.

Two brothers resume their lives after the war of independence in Algeria.