Writer Tyvian Jones seems to have it all—an international best seller, an apartment in Rome, a gorgeous fiancé—but he’s bitter anyway. He meets his existential match in the mod seductress Eve. An emotional tyrant, her casual maneuvering forces Baker to confront his past and his weaknesses.

American exile auteur Joseph Losey made this zippy erotic thriller with one of our favorite actresses: Jeanne Moreau. Decked in mod fashion, listening to Billie Holiday while she counts lire, she’s the ferocious femme fatale seductress of this caustic, acclaimed, and rediscovered love triangle.