Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1964)

During WWI, an exotic dancer by the name of Mata Hari (Jeanne Moreau) works as a German spy while living in France. When she falls in love with a young soldier (Jean Louis Trintignant), who is one of her victims, she has second thoughts about her profession. But her superiors won't let her resign. Many films have been made about the legendary Dutch dancer executed by a firing squad for spying for Germany during WWI, most notably the 1931 film starring Greta Garbo. The name itself has become a synonym for a femme fatale using her powers of seduction to extract information. Unfortunately, as directed by Jean Louis Richard (who was Moreau's ex-husband) who also wrote the screenplay along with Francois Truffaut, this version is rather peaked. Moreau is one of the world's greatest actresses yet she is unable to breath much life into the routine script. Even the brief snippet we see of her "dancing" is disappointing, a dancer Moreau is not. She remains, of course, an indelible screen presence. When you see Moreau and Trintignant gamboling in the fields to Georges Delerue's delicate underscore you realize the film is routine and isn't going to get any better. With Jean Pierre Leaud, Claude Rich, Albert Remy, Marie Dubois and Nicole Desailly.