15 movies to get to know me Branded to Kill Belle De Jour Le Samurai Carlitos Way Out of the Past Thief The Killer City on Fire Shogun Assassin Pale Flower Female Prisoner No 701 Scorpion Scarface Hard Boiled Godfather 1 and 2

A Colt Is My Passport (1967) A classic Japanese hitman for hire noir. It borrows heavily from the French crime films of Jacques Becker and Jean Pierre Melville, as well as taking influence from Hollywood and spaghetti westerns. Highly recommended.

A Colt Is My Passport (1967) Dir. Takashi Nomura

Rosalba Neri in Lady Frankenstein | 1971

Sophia Loren

Marisa Mell in Danger Diabolik (1968)

the coolest movie about loneliness

Kwaiden (1964)

The Diabolical Dr Z, (1966) is a weird, wild French/Spanish horror film by Jess Franco. A mad scientist uses mind control to turn a sexy erotic dancer into an assassin who kills with her long, poison tipped finger nails. Great film.

Barbara Bouchet in La moglie in vacanza... l'amante in città (1980)

The Big Combo (1955) Dir. Joseph H. Lewis

Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls (1995)

TAGLINE: ‘The space age adventuress whose sex-ploits are among the most bizarre ever seen.’ American movie poster for Roger Vadim’s Barbarella by Renato Fratini & Robin Ray (1968).

The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966) Dir. Jess Franco

Edwige Fenech in Asso | 1981

Catherine Deneuve in Belle De Jour (1967)

Great villain, definitely my favourite film noir of all time. I put it above The Big Heat, the Killers and Double Indemnity.

"A grandfather clock is of no interest—a vampire woman getting out of this clock at midnight, that's me!" Jean Rollins The Shiver of the Vampires (1971)