Alain Cuny

A film from Godard’s 1980s period of reinvention, Détective has images as beautiful as paintings and cleverly fragments shards of movie conventions to forge new critiques. Promising his producers a genre film, they instead got a caustically funny remix of all possible hotel movie mysteries.

A tremendous hit that propelled Sylvia Kristel to international stardom, Emmanuelle made extramarital affairs an instant cause célèbre, and soft-core romps fashionable. Heightened by the beauty of Bangkok and an array of chic outfits, the thrills of this erotic classic are more than just carnal.