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Director: Louis Malle (1958)
Considered controversial when first released, Louis Malle’s erotic drama stars Jeanne Moreau as a bored wife and mother who begins an impassioned affair with a young archeologist and decides to abandon her family. Tenderly erotic and passionate, the film is noted for superb cinematography, a classical music score, and a semi-nude scene.
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Director: Roger Vadim (1956)
The astounding success of Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman revolutionized the foreign film market and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant) endures beatings, insults, [...]
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953)
In the squalid, impoverished South American town of Las Piedras, desperate men and women from all over the world scrape out a living and dream of escape, under the watchful eye of the ruling Southern Oil Company. When a well explodes 300 miles away, the American company conscripts four of these unfortunates [...]
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