Night Games is a 1980 erotic thriller film directed by Roger Vadim.

[2] The film stars Cindy Pickett as a woman still traumatised after being raped as a teenager, and is unable to have a satisfactory sex life with her husband, who eventually leaves her.

Left alone in a large house, Valerie drifts into sexual fantasies, while facing danger from another potential rapist.

[3] Roger Vadim had previously made a number of provocative films, including And God Created Woman and Barbarella, whose respective stars Vadim also married, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda.

[6] Pickett was a relative unknown when Vadim cast her for Night Games, best known for appearing for three years on Guiding Light.

"Vadim has the power to make an actor feel so good about himself, and when that happens you grow.

[8] This film was neither a commercial nor critical success, and Pickett went on to become one of the stars of an American television series set in a hospital, St.

Because people did go to see Vadim's latest discovery and obviously I wasn't the sort of person they expected.