Bel Ami (2012)
Georges Duroy is a penniless soldier returning from war. He travels to Paris in a search for ways to improve his social and financial status. He uses his wit and powers of seduction to charm wealthy married women.
Actors: Anthony Higgins
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)
R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia. Aside from monetary compensation, the arrangement includes a sexual liaison offered to Neville by Virginia while her estranged husband is away. But when the murdered body of Mr Herbert is discovered at the estate, mysterious clues found in Neville’s drawings point to the identity of the killer.
Max My Love (1986) aka Max Mon Amour
The French wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
Quartet (1981)
When her husband’s arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.