10. Vivre sa vie (1962)
Nana is a beautiful young Parisian woman who decides to leave her husband and child to become an actress. However, this pie in the sky idea leaves her working as a shop girl with not enough cash to go around. She descends into prostitution and when her pimp sells her to another pimp, she dies in an exchange of gun fire. Employing a documentarian/cinema verité approach to his subject, Jean Luc Godard steadily films a gorgeous young woman's dreams going sour and the lengths she has to go to to keep herself afloat - even if it means belonging to a pimp. Poor Nana was thrown away in the street like rubbish at the end of the film. She lived off her looks and was a disposable commodity. The fact that she thought she could live off her looks was the ultimate source of her self destruction. Not an endearing film to watch, but one that is very philosophical and satisfying.