Eva

Blacklisted ex-Hollywood director Joseph Losey’s reinvention as a voice of coolly stylized European art-house cinema in many ways began with this Venice-set tale of romantic obsession, gorgeously photographed in modernist monochrome. Stanley Baker plays a successful but fraudulent Welsh writer whose delirious infatuation with the alluring call girl Eva (Jeanne Moreau), who cares only for money, leads him down a path of degradation and personal tragedy. Moreau, at her most sultry chic, makes for one of the screen’s most striking and unforgettable femme fatales.

Starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi