The Night Porter (1974)

1974

A concentration camp survivor discovers that her former torturer and lover is now working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna when she and her husband check in at the hotel. When her husband goes to the next city in their itinerary, she resumes her sadomasochistic love affair with her torturer.

Une Femme Mariée (1964) aka A Married Woman

1964

A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover. Charlotte is young and modern, not a hair out of place, superficial, cool; she reads fashion magazines – does she have the perfect bust? She lives in a Paris suburb with her son and her husband Pierre, a pilot. Her lover is Robert, an actor. Assignations with him, dinner with her husband and a client, consulting a physician: there’s tension at […]