Catherine Breillat Movies

One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside,...

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability,...

A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a teenage girl during summer vacation.

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is...

A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".

A 14-year-old pursues romance with a man while vacationing with her family in Switzerland.

Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.

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 setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a...

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...

Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory...

From the starting point of her admiration for the pioneering Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova (1934-2018), the director poses a question: is 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 young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.

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

A filmmaker engages in a routine series of sexual encounters to pass the time while editing her latest film. When one man refuses to play by her...

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

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.

A story about the riddle of femininity in French cinema.