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Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat

French actress, film director, writer and screenwriter
July 13, 1948 (75 years old)

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.
Runtime: 88 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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