Watch Pierrot le Fou

Belmondo, Seberg and the jump cut; the New Wave arrives in one film.

Bardot, a screenwriter and Fritz Lang in Capri; Godard's CinemaScope about a marriage ending.

Watch the film Wild at Heart directed by David Lynch

A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.

Sissy Spacek narrates a killing spree across the Dakota plains; Malick's debut.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

A French girl and a Chinese man in colonial Saigon; Duras at 70 remembering.