I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)

Jean-Pierre Léaud, star of The 400 Blows and Masculin Féminin , plays Henri, a boring, lonely French man living in the U.K. who gets unceremoniously fired from his job of 15 years with zero notice. He coolly and calmly heads home to his boring flat to off himself. After hanging fails and carbon monoxide poisoning fails, he realizes this is a job for professionals. A cabby guides him to the local…