Roger Vailland

La Truite opens to the unedifying sight of a glum-faced Isabelle Huppert squeezing sperm out of a dead fish. (imdb)

It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats... (imdb)

Illicit passions pervade an Italian town, where men gather nightly for the cynical "game of the law".

This drama tells the tale of union woes at a French factory, and of the single mom who gives her all for the union cause. Pierrette is the young mother, and she somehow has time to have an affair with her handsome co-worker who is nicknamed Beau Masque. All this grows more complicated when the workers go out on strike. (Unifrance)

Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTURE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of cinema's most provocative filmmakers Roger Vadim. (imdb)