Catherine Breillat Movies

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

After a confinement in a harem, an illiterate Algerian takes her revenge by reinventing herself as a writer. Under the name of Elissa Rhaïs, she...

A marginalised family in a small French town become the target of suspicion and violence after a German relative arrives, serving as a prophetic tale...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life.

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

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