Alphaville
Alphaville posits that consciousness can be awakened from the brainwashed coma of societal control through poetry—that the answer to corrupt society is personal creativity and expression.
Neo-noir
Le Samouraï
He is skilled at his profession, but takes no joy in it — not a glamorized hitman, but an isolated man, stripped of his humanity, enduring a downward spiral toward his own personal eschaton.