Successive Slidings of Pleasure Alain Robbe-Grillet’s serpentine erotic mystery presented as a surreal investigation into a woman with feared sexual powers. Drama 1974 106 mins Alain Robbe-Grillet Trans-Europ-Express This stylish, cult 1966 erotic thriller stars French New Wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant and Marie-France Pisier. Thriller 1966 95 mins Alain Robbe-Grillet Eden and After Alain Robbe-Grillet’s sensual fantasy follows a group of students who enter a bizarre sado-masochistic realm after taking a mysterious drug. Animation & Artists Moving Image Drama 1969 98 mins Alain Robbe-Grillet Eyes without a Face Georges Franju’s gorgeous, poetic horror film about a surgeon’s dark obsession with restoring his daughter’s disfigured face. Horror Medical drama 1959 90 mins Georges Franju Fantastic Planet René Laloux and Roland Topor’s surreal, psychedelic sci-fi animation imagines a world in which humanoid creatures are kept as pets by a race of giants. Animation & Artists Moving Image Science Fiction 1973 72 mins René Laloux The Iron Rose A pair of lovers have a tryst in a vacant tomb, but then find themselves unable to escape from the graves and crypts of the massive cemetery. Drama Horror 1973 80 mins Jean Rollin The Beast An outrageous classic of erotic cinema, Walerian Borowczyk’s playful and subversive fantasy finds a horny heiress courting the ravenous desires of a wild beast. Comedy Fantasy 1975 98 mins Walerian Borowczyk Lips of Blood Jean Rollin’s hauntingly poetic horror about a man trying to solve the riddle of a tormenting childhood memory. Horror 1975 87 mins Jean Rollin The Immortal One The debut feature from famed novelist and screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet is a daring examination of fantasy and memory set in Turkey. Drama 1962 101 mins Alain Robbe-Grillet La Belle et la Bête Jean Cocteau’s ravishingly restored 1946 film is a cinematic classic. “Five stars. [This] magical exploration of the fairytale is a compelling and bizarre masterpiece” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian Fantasy 1946 95 mins Jean Cocteau Celine and Julie Go Boating Jacques Rivette’s biggest commercial hit is an exhilarating combination of theatricality, paranoia and ‘la vie parisienne’, around an entrancing examination of making and watching films. Drama 1974 194 mins Jacques Rivette Night of the Hunted Jean Rollin’s stylish and futuristically surreal horror about patients at a mysterious clinic whose memories are disintegrating. Horror 1980 91 mins Jean Rollin Requiem for a Vampire Two female fugitives hide out in a deserted castle, only to become embroiled in a plot to extend the bloodline of a horde of blood-crazed vampires. Horror 1972 87 mins Jean Rollin The Nude Vampire Jean Rollin’s second vampire film is a mesmerisingly surreal art-horror, short on logic but steeped in gorgeously sensual imagery. Horror 1969 85 mins Jean Rollin Shiver of the Vampires Newlyweds visit their cousins at a remote rural chateau, finding them under the spell of two vampire girls. Horror 1970 95 mins Jean Rollin The Grapes of Death A woman visiting Roublès deep in France’s winemaking country discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies. Horror 1978 91 mins Jean Rollin The Living Dead Girl When toxic waste spill disturbs her grave, a deceased girl comes alive to walk the earth again in Jean Rollin's macabre tale of zombie carnage. Horror 1983 90 mins Jean Rollin Fascination Jean Rollin’s best-known film is the most full-blooded of his vampire tales, teeming with sex and lavishly filmed gore scenes Horror 1979 82 mins Jean Rollin
