Jean-Claude Carrière

Willem Dafoe is Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh in this biographical drama from the director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

In this French dramedy, a couple's relationship gets tense when she leaves him for his best friend, and then returns to him after that friend dies.

Afghanistan wartime drama based on director Atiq Rahimi’s Prix Goncourt-winning novel. A partly allegorical tale, The Patience Stone follows a Muslim wife (Golshifteh Farahani) tending to her formerly abusive soldier husband who now lies comatose after being shot at war. With him in her care, she is able to speak to him for the first time without fear of censorship.

Screen greats Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche lead this romance epic, nominated for Best Cinematography and Adapted Screenplay at the 1989 Academy Awards.

Surrealist director Luis Buñuel's 1967 drama about a young housewife who spends her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.