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.

The Ape Woman is the highest-praised film by 'La Grande Bouffe' director Marco Ferreri. From a real story - à la 'Elephant Man' - of the exploitation of a young woman whose body was completely covered in hair. A hustler marries her to cash in on her appearance. This version features both the director's sombre ending and the longer, 'happy-ending', nominated for the Cannes Festival Palme D'Or.

A literary TV chat-show host (Daniel Auteuil) discovers the drawbacks to celebrity when he and his wife (Juliette Binoche) start receiving anonymous messages in the form of videos of their home and naively violent drawings.

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.