Here’s another post-New Wave favorite, and one of Godard’s most philosophically inspired works. Marking his only collaboration with Gérard Depardieu, Oh, Woe Is Me fractures Greek myth and the detective tale to question love and spirit in a fallen world. Legends clash and a strange new film is born.

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.