Catherine Breillat Movies

Georges Deblache, a despondent middle-aged cop, falls for his partner's wife.

A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.

A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.

Kamel, a young Arab raised in Paris, wants to become rich. He meets Edwige, a bourgeois girl, whose father disapproves of him as Edwige's boyfriend.

Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon,...

A man asks himself about the image of women who are offered for his gaze. A documentary about the image of women in fashion, film, and life.

A director struggles with a difficult sex scene between a young actor and actress who can't stand one another. Aided by her loyal assistant, she is...

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as...

In recent years, Hollywood productions have turned away from sensuality. Is the sex scene on the verge of extinction or reinvention? Alongside film...

After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her...

In this "inside look" at French filmmaking, Marechal - who is a has-been director - a producer, Vito Catene and Camile Dor, a big-name actress, have...

Based on the memoirs of author Curzio Malaparte, diplomatic liaison between the Allied and Italian forces after the defeat of the Nazis in Italy, The...

Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes...

In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a...

A story about the riddle of femininity in French cinema.

Underage sexual activity is one of the most taboo subjects on screen. The film traces the history and representation of adolescent love and sexual...

A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.

Muriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and...

After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an ambiguous relationship.

Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.