Elisa (1995)

Gut wrenching drama about young prostitute whose mother was killed. As she (great portrayal by Vanessa Paradis) roams the streets of Paris with band of thieves she decides to find the man responsible for her mother death. After obtaining gun from some thug she contemplates suicide in public bathroom (great scene with beautiful music) but change her mind and goes to some remote island where she encounters her tormentor, old drunkard (great performance by Gerard Depardieu) and little by little she gets close to him, only to find that he killed her mother because she was whoring with another men so she could raise Elise and her husband.