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Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat

French actress, film director, writer and screenwriter
July 13, 1948 (75 years old)
in theaters starting July 11th 2024 (BC) in theaters starting July 5th 2024 (MB) in theaters starting July 5th 2024 (ON) in theaters starting July 12th 2024 (QC)

Last Summer

V.O.: L'Été dernier
Fr. 2023. Mores drama by Catherine Breillat with Léa Drucker, Samuel Kirsher, Olivier Rabourdin. A Parisian lawyer is troubled by the arrival in her family of her husband's teenage son from a previous marriage.
Runtime: 104 min.

Abuse of Weakness

V.O.: Abus de faiblesse
Fr. 2013. Drama by Catherine Breillat with Isabelle Huppert, Kool Shen, Ronald Leclercq. The victim of a stroke that renders her bedridden, a filmmaker approaches a notorious swindler for her next film, without apprehending the risks of such an association.
Runtime: 104 min.

The Sleeping Beauty

V.O.: La Belle Endormie
Fr. 2010. Sentimental drama by Catherine Breillat with Carla Besnainou, Julia Artamanov, Kerian Mayan. Cursed to sleep for the past 100 years, a young girl has various strange dreams swapping between medieval times and the world of today.
Runtime: 90 min.

Bluebeard

V.O.: Barbe Bleue
Fr. 2009. Drama by Catherine Breillat with Dominique Thomas, Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir. In an attic, a little girl reads to her older sister the tale of Bluebeard: a story of an orphan girl's marriage to a rich lord who killed his previous wives.
Runtime: 80 min.

The Last Mistress

V.O.: Une Vieille Maîtresse
Fr. 2007. Mores drama by Catherine Breillat with Asia Argento, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Claude Sarraute. A womanizer about to get married recalls his passionate affair with a former Spanish call girl.
Runtime: 110 min.

Anatomy of Hell

V.O.: Anatomie de l'enfer
Fr. 2003. Mores drama by Catherine Breillat with Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Alexandre Belin. For four nights, a young woman pays a homosexual to observe her in her deepest physical and spiritual intimacy.
Runtime: 77 min.

The Housekeeper

V.O.: Une Femme de ménage
Fr. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Claude Berri with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Émilie Dequenne, Brigitte Catillon. After being dumped by his wife, a fifty-year-old sound engineer hires a young cleaning lady who soon falls in love with him.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Catherine Breillat with Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida. A filmmaker tries to address the issues her lead actor has in performing a sex scene.
Runtime: 95 min.

Fat Girl

V.O.: À ma soeur!
Fr. 2001. Mores drama by Catherine Breillat with Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo. A twelve-year-old girl with an unattractive physique unhappily witnesses her beautiful older sister
Runtime: 87 min.

Brief Crossing

V.O.: Brève Traversée
Fr. 2001. Drama by Catherine Breillat with Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filipi. On a ship, a young Frenchman spends a night with an English woman older than him.
Runtime: 84 min.
Fr. 1999. Mores drama by Catherine Breillat with Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand. Frustrated by her partner's refusal to make love to her, a young teacher experiments sexually with other men.
Runtime: 81 min.

Perfect Love

V.O.: Parfait Amour!
Fr. 1996. Sentimental drama by Catherine Breillat with Isabelle Renauld, Francis Renaud, Laura Saglio. In Dunkirk, a man and a woman meet, fall in love and then hate each other.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1993. Mores drama by John Lvoff with Marie Bunel, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Todeschini. The erosion of a couple of yuppies comfortably installed in a beautiful apartment in Lyon.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1992. Mores drama by Gérard Vergez with Corinne Dacla, Jean-Michel Portal, Jean-Marie Winling. During World War II, while her husband is in combat, a woman has an affair with a high school student.
Runtime: 87 min.
Runtime: 88 min.

Dirty Like an Angel

V.O.: Sale comme un ange
Fr. 1991. Psychological drama by Catherine Breillat with Claude Brasseur, Lio, Nils Tavernier. A lonely and misogynistic police inspector takes advantage of his deputy's forced absence to seduce his beautiful wife.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1989. Mores drama by Christine Pascal with Fabienne Babe, André Marcon, Francis Girod. In an African village, a producer recalls the making of one of his films and the difficult meeting between a star and a perverse director.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1987. Psychological drama by Catherine Breillat with Delphine Zentout, Étienne Chicot, Olivier Parnières. A fourteen-year-old girl on vacation with her parents in Biarritz teases a forty-year-old man.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1987. Crime drama by Ronald Chammah with Isabelle Huppert, Joaquim de Almeida, David Warrilow. Seduced by a woman with a troubled past, a man tries to see things clearly.
Runtime: 83 min.
Fr. 1985. Crime drama by Maurice Pialat with Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina. A police commissioner falls in love with the mistress of a drug trafficker he recently arrested.
Runtime: 113 min.

The Skin

V.O.: La Pelle
It. 1981. War drama by Liliana Cavani with Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Alexandra King. In Naples in 1943, an Italian writer serves as a liaison between American troops and his countrymen.
Runtime: 134 min.

Night After Night

V.O.: Tapage nocturne
Fr. 1979. Drama by Catherine Breillat with Dominique Laffin, Bertrand Bonvoisin, Marie-Hélène Breillat. The love and sexual experiences of a young married director and mother of a little girl.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1977. Sentimental drama by David Hamilton with Patti D'Arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Bernard Giraudeau. The emotional experiences of a teenage girl staying with her parents' friends during her vacation.
Runtime: 95 min.

Dracula Father and Son

V.O.: Dracula père et fils
Fr. 1976. Comedy by Édouard Molinaro with Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie-Hélène Breillat. Dracula has a son who shows little interest in becoming a vampire.
Runtime: 99 min.

A Real Young Girl

V.O.: Une Vraie jeune fille
Fr. 1975. Mores drama by Catherine Breillat with Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller, Rita Meiden. A teenage girl spending summer vacation with her parents in the country tries to escape boredom by exploring her budding sexuality.
Runtime: 93 min.

Catherine & Co.

V.O.: Catherine et Cie
Fr. 1975. Mores comedy by Michel Boisrond with Jane Birkin, Patrick Dewaere, Jean-Claude Brialy. In Paris, a young Englishwoman lives in luxury after going into business granting favors to her
Runtime: 100 min.

Last Tango in Paris

V.O.: Ultimo Tango a Parigi
It. 1972. Psychological drama by Bernardo Bertolucci with Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud. A middle-aged man, reeling from his wife's suicide, has an affair with a young girl he met by chance.
Runtime: 125 min.

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