This slow-burner suspense classic, and one of Melville’s most influential works, is an excellent character study of the ‘hitman’.
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Samourai, Le (1967)
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Tag / France
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Piscine, La (1969)
This French antecedent to ‘A Bigger Splash’ is a stylish if somewhat monotonous drama oozing sexual tension as a couple and a father-daughter duo temporarily reside in a summer house.
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Confidentially Yours (1983)
Truffaut’s terrific last film is as Hitchcockian as it gets, with a top performance by Fanny Ardant who plays a sleuthing secretary after her boss becomes the prime suspect in a series of murders.
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Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
A sensually shot if also subtly erotic take on religion and desire, handled with deft skill by the great Melville.
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
This layered Cannes Palme d’Or-winning work, part courtroom drama, part marital exposé about the mysterious circumstances surrounding a death is Justine Triet’s most complex picture to date.
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Possession (1981)
Zulawski’s infamous cult horror about a couple’s disintegrating marriage is as deranged a film as any, featuring a terrifying performance for the ages by Cannes Best Actress winner Isabelle Adjani.
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Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
A popular singer anxiously waits for her medical test results in this charming yet reflective drama that remains one of Varda’s best-known works from the French New Wave era.
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Innocence (2004)
This haunting debut feature about a group of schoolgirls shielded from the modern world is best described as ‘Dogtooth’ meets ‘Petite Maman’, marked by an unsettling sound design and an acute sense of false normalcy.
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Passenger, The (1975)
Antonioni brings his enigmatic style to striking locales around Europe and Africa in this tour de force work about identities and personas.
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Age of Panic (2013)
Triet’s highly-charged frenzy of a debut feature sees a female news reporter navigate rowdy crowds and an even rowdier family row, as her persistent ex-husband attempts to pay her little children a visit on the day of the 2012 French Presidential Election.
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Eternality Tan 