Cast: Catherine Deneuve

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Fernando Rey · Franco Nero · Lola Gaos

Synopsis Orphaned as a young woman, Tristana is taken in by well-respected, yet impoverished aristocrat Don Lope. It's not long before Tristana's entry into his life awakens desires and he takes advantage of her vulnerable situation, rationalising that she’d fare worse...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean Sorel · Michel Piccoli · Francisco Rabal

Synopsis In Belle de jour (1967), Séverine, a beautiful but emotionally distant young housewife, leads a double life. By day, she secretly works in a high-end brothel, adopting the alias "Belle de jour," while maintaining her respectable marriage by night. Torn...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Björk · Catherine Deneuve · David Morse · Peter Stormare

Synopsis Dancer in the Dark (2000) follows Selma, a Czech immigrant and single mother working in a small American town. Struggling with a degenerative eye condition, she finds solace in her love for musicals and her vivid imagination. Selma saves every...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Ian Hendry · Patrick Wymark · John Fraser

Synopsis Repulsion (1965) follows Carol, a shy and troubled young woman living in London with her sister. Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, Carol's mental state begins to unravel. Haunted by repressed fears and desires, she becomes increasingly detached...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Anne Vernon · Nino Castelnuovo · Ellen Farner

Synopsis Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Françoise Dorléac · Danielle Darrieux · George Chakiris

Synopsis In the little town Rochefort lives Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange Garnier (Françoise Dorléac), two musical twins that teach music and dance to kids. One day, Etienne (George Chakiris) and Bill (Groover Dale) arrive in town, and need the twins...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Catherine Deneuve · Jean Poiret · Andrea Ferréol

Synopsis Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive with a new play, and hires Bernard Granger for...

Direction Arnaud Desplechin

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Emmanuelle Devos · Mathieu Amalric · Magalie Woch

Synopsis This film expertly mixes comedy, tragedy and melodrama to tell the emotionally gripping story of the intersecting lives of two former lovers. Nora is a woman in her mid-thirties who wants people to believe that her life is going just...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Bouquet · Nelly Borgeaud

Synopsis Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. When she arrives...

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Anouk Aimée · Richard Berry · Nino Castelnuovo · Danielle Darrieux

Synopsis In tribute to her late husband, the wife of the respected French director honors his life and artistic works by highlighting his vision in clips and interviews.

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Richard Crenna · Catherine Deneuve · Riccardo Cucciolla

Synopsis Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just a asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night club owner, must also deal with...

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Daniel Duval · Xavier Beauvois · Jacques Lassalle

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Gérard Depardieu · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Galabru

Synopsis Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved...

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Daniel Auteuil · Chiara Mastroianni · Marthe Villalonga

Synopsis Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will come...

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Catherine Deneuve · Laurence Côte · Julien Riviére

Synopsis In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son. Through flashbacks, the film discloses the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette...

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Emmanuelle Béart · Vincent Pérez · John Malkovich

Synopsis In 1922 France, the writer Marcel Proust is on his deathbed, scenes from the past flashing before his eyes. But what he is remembering is not his own life; he has become the narrator in a past filled with the...

Direction Arnaud Desplechin

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean-Paul Roussillon · Mathieu Amalric · Anne Consigny

Synopsis Abel and Junon had two children, Joseph and Elizabeth. Victim of a rare genetic condition, Joseph's only hope was a bone marrow transplant. As they and Elizabeth were incompatible, his parents conceived a third child in the hope of saving...

Direction Gero von Boehm

Cast Helmut Newton · Isabella Rossellini · Charlotte Rampling · Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis Helmut Newton the trailblazing late photographer who had a defining impact on the worlds of fashion and art.

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Patrick Dewaere · Etienne Chicot · Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away,...

Direction Kheiron

Cast Kheiron · Catherine Deneuve · André Dussollier · Louison Blivet

Synopsis Waël, a former street kid from the Parisian suburbs, makes a living from small-time scams that he carries out together with Monique (Deneuve), a retired woman who is clearly very fond of him. His life reaches a turning point when,...