The Bride Wore Black

François Truffaut directs and co-writes this 1960s French crime drama centred on a suicidal young woman. Julie (Jeanne Moreau) is stopped from leaping to certain death out of a high window by her mother. Mysteriously, she is dressed head to foot in black and highly distraught.

Julie brightens up though and announces an imminent trip to cheer herself up, though it is only a ruse. Her niece, there to make sure she gets on the train, waves goodbye and the woman in black promptly slips out of the other side of the carriage. Next her hair has changed though she's still in black - asking people at a party where she can find a man called Bliss (Claude Rich).

The party is Bliss' stag night - he's a rich playboy and he's immediately drawn to the lady in black, unsure whether he remembers her from his past.