The Dreamers. Poster of the 2003 movie and cover of the 1988 book
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The Dreamers
Gilbert Adair, 1988
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Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003

Matthew is an American exchange student who has come to Paris to study French. The three bond over a shared love of film. After dinner with their parents, Théo and Isabelle offer Matthew the chance to stay with them while their parents are on a trip. After Théo loses at a trivia game, Isabelle sentences him to masturbate to a Marlene Dietrich poster in front of them.


Eaux profondes. Poster of the 1981 movie and cover of the 1957 book, Deep Water
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Deep Water
Patricia Highsmith, 1957
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Michel Deville, 1981

Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.


Weep No More, My Lady. Poster of the 1992 movie and cover of the 1987 book
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Weep No More, My Lady
Mary Higgins Clark, 1987
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Michel Andrieu, 1992

Everyone assumes suicide when Lelia, a volatile movie actress who had just turned 40, is discovered drowned after a binge of alcohol, drugs, and hysteria. The cops then learn that she was slain. Ted, Leila’s charming fiancé, is implicated in the crime, but Elizabeth, Leila’s younger sister, is adamant that the man she has grown to love cannot be responsible. In the course of setting a trap to force the real murderer to expose his name, she nearly becomes his fourth victim.