Christian Marquand

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

Dir. Jean Cocteau · With Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.

Dir. Robert Aldrich · With James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti

A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.

Dir. Alain Corneau · With Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve

18-year-old orphan Juliette's unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his futile attempts to tame her wild ways.

Dir. Roger Vadim · With Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Curd Jürgens