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,...

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

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

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

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,...

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...

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

A tribute to legendary 20th-century filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, examining his cinema, art, and life.

In Dunkirk, a man and a woman meet and fall in love, then hate each other.

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...

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

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

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