Catherine Breillat Movies

From the starting point of her admiration for the pioneering Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova (1934-2018), the director poses a question: is cinema...

Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

A story about the riddle of femininity in French cinema.

Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA,...

Anne reads her younger sister, Marie-Catherine, the story of Bluebeard. In 17th-century France, another set of sisters — also named Anne and...

A short documentary exploring the ongoing relevance and power of 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to...

The Sienese Pia Tolomei is imprisoned in a castle by a jealous husband. Based on the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, inspired by a story from the...

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

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...

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.

Victim of an unfair dismissal, a young secretary strikes back by becoming the assistant to the son of the company's CEO.

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.