Playing the 1940 Nazi occupation of Paris for laughs is a risky proposition that director and co-writer Jean-Paul Rappeneau pulls off in high style. Taking refuge in a hotel in Bordeaux are a movie diva (Isabelle Adjani), a politico (Gerard Depardieu), a spy (Peter Coyote), a babe student (Virginie Ledoyan) and a young writer (Gregori Derangere is a newcomer to watch) — all thrown together by crisis and unexpected romance. It's sexy, suspenseful fun, and gorgeous-looking to boot.

“He Will Break Your Heart”

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."