L'Avventura

Italian superstar Monica Vitti intrigues as a rich woman vacationing on a resort island in the Mediterranean who goes on a search for a missing friend, an investigation that evolves into a search for love and the meaning of life. As the breakthrough film for Michelangelo Antonioni -- the man who would go on to direct Blow-Up -- this art-house classic was discussed and debated by critics the world over in 1960 and won the Jury Prize at Cannes.