Marpessa Dawn

Chérie Noire

Pierre Sabbagh

Jacques Jean, Marthe Mercadier

Boubou cravate

Daniel Kamwa

Marpessa Dawn, Françoise Petit

An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that perhaps he has assimilated too much white culture.

Orfeu Negro

Marcel Camus

Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Afrique sur Seine

Mamadou Sarr, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Mamadou Sarr

This film is widely regarded as the first film made by an African south of the Sahara. Labelled an “ethnological documentary in reverse,” it shows 1950s Paris from the cinematic perspective of a group of African immigrants. (Mubi)

Canzoni Nel Mondo

Vittorio Sala

Gilbert Bécaud, Marpessa Dawn

The film is a rundown of the songs sung by the stars of the time, chained to various shows such as strip and comic caricatures.

Sweet Movie

Dušan Makavejev

Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.

El secreto de los hombres azules

Edmond Agabra

Lex Barker, Marpessa Dawn

Collections privées

Shūji Terayama, Just Jaeckin

Roland Blanche, Marie-Catherine Conti

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?

Le bal du comte d'Orgel

Marc Allégret

Jean-Claude Brialy, Sylvie Fennec

Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.

Womaneater

Charles Saunders

George Coulouris, Vera Day

A mad scientist captures women and feeds them to a flesh-eating tree, which in turn gives him a serum that helps bring the dead back to life.