Le Sauvage (1975) on Netflix

Plot summary

At a party in Caracas, Nelly becomes engaged to Vittorio. She changes her mind that night, runs away and checks into a hotel. Vittorio finds her room by climbing over the balcony of the next room, occupied by Martin, a middle-aged Frenchman, and during the struggle that follows Nelly knocks Vittorio unconscious and flees in his car. Needing money for a ticket to Paris, she visits the nightclub of Alex Fox, her former employer, who owes her a year of wages but says he cannot pay, so she takes a Toulouse-Lautrec painting from his office. She tries to sell it to Martin, and in the morning he drives her to the airport, where a friend of his can get her a flight to Paris. From there Martin sails to the Caribbean island where he lives alone.