Delphine Seyrig

A widow goes about her daily routine, including turning tricks in the afternoon.

Delphine Seyrig is Elizabeth Bathory, a never-aging Countess who has a long history of seduction. Now, she’s after a troubled newlywed couple.

In Boulogne-sur-Mer, the past of widowed antique shop owner Hélène comes back to haunt her when a former lover reenters her life. Meanwhile, her stepson Bernard is tormented by his own ghosts, related to his service in France’s recently ended war in Algeria.

In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life as she talks to a woman who was drawn to the villa. Vera tells her about her no-good husband, who has been using her to keep his failing business afloat, and her present love affair.

In Luis Bunuel's satiric, Oscar-winning masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

You can almost smell the hairspray in Akerman’s exuberant but subversive musical about the many romantic entanglements of salon workers in a shopping mall basement. Its natty 1980s style, witty song lyrics, rapturous dance sequences, not to mention a gloriously bitchy male-suited quartet, deliver all the joys of the genre.

Naively idealistic and largely inept both in his dealings with women and in any job, Antoine clumsily courts Christine while working for a private detective agency.

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.