Moira Shearer

A disturbed filmmaker literally kills with his camera in this ahead-of-its-time shocker. Like the same year's Psycho, this film's combination of voyeurism, eroticism and horror repelled some 1960 critics, but its cult reputation soared in later years.

Aspiring to become a prima ballerina, a young dancer is torn between her love for a charming composer and the demands of her obsessive instructor.

Live scenes of Paris and four dramatic choreographies by Roland Petit are linked together by narrator and French national treasure, Maurice Chevalier.