"Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud" (1958): In this, his debut feature film, director Louis Malle captures the hidden beauty of Jeanne Moreau, the brilliant camerawork of Henri Decae, and the musical force of Miles Davis in a tightly constructed film noir experience that launched his and Moreau's careers.
"Le Feu Follet" (1963): Maurice Ronet stars as an alcoholic writer who, upon leaving a drying-out clinic, decides to commit suicide. He elects to visit all his friends to see if they can provide him with a reason to live.
"Les Amants" (1958): A classic nouvelle vague exploration of human relationships. Jeanne Moreau appears as a bored bourgeois housewife in this study of sexual yearnings.
"Zazie Dans Le Metro" (1960): A precocious young brat takes a day trip to Paris and leaves chaos, anarchy and utter confusion in her wake!