On the train from Paris to Antwerp, a director and his team hash out the plot of a crime movie. Their story is enacted by Jean Louis-Trintignant (Amour), who plays Elias, a cocaine smuggler seduced by a mysterious woman. But as the director keeps changing the story, Elias is lost in a labyrinth.

The writer of Last Year at Marienbad and king of the Nouveau roman, Alain Robbe-Grillet was a director in his own right who specialized in kinky mind-games. Trans-Europ-Express, long unavailable, is a deliriously erotic thriller starring New Wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant & Marie-France Pisier.