A Claire Denis romcom? We’re sold! Subverting fairytale tropes with fine irony, this wonderfully unpredictable take on middle-age female desire and the volatility of emotions stars an exquisitely mercurial Juliette Binoche—searching for love, encountering mostly disappointment. Oh, and that ending!

Alain Resnais immerses himself in the shadowy and macabre world of the 1930s French aristocracy for his 1970s biographical drama, Stavisky. Romantic, even elegiac, and very much stalked by death, this game of deception stars the legendary New Wave star Jean-Paul Belmondo.