Watch Belle de Jour

Six friends keep trying to have dinner; Bunuel keeps stopping them.

Denis Lavant plays nine lives in one day from a white limousine; Carax's surreal tour of cinema.

A man, a woman and a baroque hotel where nothing can be pinned down; the most argued-over puzzle film.

Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.

Three hours of the Paris theatre world of the 1830s, made in secret under the Occupation.

Truffaut's own childhood as Antoine Doinel, ending with the freeze frame on the beach.

Bresson's thief in Paris, filmed as hands and gestures, and the ending in the prison.

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