Belle de jour / Beauty of the Day (1967)
Drama | Romance
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian
Director: Luis Buñuel
Bad Seeds / Mauvaises herbes (2018)
Comedy
Wael a former street child, makes a living from small scams with his adoptive mother and partner-in-crime Monique. When this unconventional duo swindles the wrong guy, Victor, an old acquaintance of Monique now in charge of a support organization for troubled teens, they have no choice but to become his interim secretary and educator in order to redeem themselves. Facing six willful kids determined to spoil all his efforts, Wael's own personal story and inventive tricks become the key to gaining their trust – and he soon realizes that he too is given a chance to heal his past and find his place in society.
Starring: Kheiron, Catherine Deneuve, André Dussollier
Director: Kheiron
Sage femme / The Midwife (2017)
Drama
A midwife gets unexpected news from her father's old mistress.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet, Quentin Dolmaire, Mylène Demongeot
Director: Martin Provost
Un flic / Un Flic / A Cop (1972)
Crime | Thriller
After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan to use the loot for an even more elaborate- and more risky- second heist.
Starring: Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna, Riccardo Cucciolla, Michael Conrad, Paul Crauchet
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Indochine (1992)
Drama | Romance
This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was her own daughter. She, and her daughter both fall in love with a young French navy officer, which will change both their lives significantly.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Pérez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Henri Marteau
Director: Régis Wargnier
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg / Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
Drama | Musical | Romance
A young girl separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Jean Champion, Harald Wolff
Director: Jacques Demy
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Crime | Drama | Musical
Selma, an earnest Czech woman who adores movie musicals, emigrates to the Pacific Northwest with her 10-year-old son. She finds a job in a pressing plant, interacts with the small town's various residents, and even lands a role in a local production of The Sound of Music while harboring a profound secret: she is on the verge of blindness due to a genetic disorder, and her son will faces the same fate without an operation. Tragedy soon befalls Selma.
Starring: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour
Director: Lars von Trier
L'agression / Act of Aggression (1975)
Crime | Drama
Paul Varlin is driving to his holiday destination with his wife Hélène and their young daughter Patty. On the way, Varlin gets into a fierce argument with a group of motorcyclists. The latter take their revenge by violently attacking Varlin's car. When he regains consciousness, Varlin discovers that both his wife and his daughter have been raped and murdered. He turns to his stepsister Sarah for moral support and help in tracking down and convicting the perpetrators of this atrocity. Varlin soon realises that the only way to get the justice he seeks is to prosecute it himself…
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Philippe Brigaud, Milena Vukotic, Franco Fabrizi
Director: Gérard Pirès
Le tout nouveau testament / The Brand New Testament (2015)
Comedy | Fantasy
Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?
Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau, François Damiens, Catherine Deneuve
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
L'homme qu'on aimait trop / In the Name of My Daughter (2014)
Drama
An aging French casino owner battles external forces and her own daughter for control of her business, leading to a number of tragedies.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet, Adèle Haenel
Director: André Téchiné
In the Courtyard / Dans la cour (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Antoine is too depressed to go on playing in his rock band. After wandering in the streets, he decides to seek an occupation. Unskilled as he is, he is lucky to be hired as the caretaker of an old Paris apartment building. He soon proves good at his job, even if he performs it a little eccentrically, and everybody grows fond of him. Antoine also develops a particular friendship with Mathilde, a recently retired woman who lives in the block and whose mental balance is deteriorating…
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gustave Kervern, Féodor Atkine, Pio Marmaï
Director: Pierre Salvadori
3 coeurs / 3 Hearts (2014)
Drama | Romance
One night in a French provincial city, Marc meets Sylvie after missing his train back to Paris. They wander through the streets until morning, talking about everything except themselves, in rare, almost choreographed, harmony. Marc takes the first train back, and sets a date with Sylvie in Paris, a few days later. They know nothing about each other, but this is much more than a game. It’s the way it has to be. Sylvie keeps the date. Misfortune befalls Marc, and he cannot. He searches for her and ends up finding someone else. Sophie. He does not know that she is Sylvie’s sister. Marc and Sylvie meet again. Their unparalleled harmony still exists… but it is too late…
Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, André Marcon, Patrick Mille
Director: Benoît Jacquot
The Young Girls of Rochefort / Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Jacques Demy followed up THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli and Gene Kelly), THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema's preeminent dreamer.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli
Director: Jacques Demy
On My Way / Elle s'en va (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Facing a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant, a woman hits the road for a trip with her grandson.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nemo Schiffman, Gérard Garouste
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Le sauvage / Call Me Savage (1975)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Caracas, Venezuela. Just after her engagement with Vittorio, Nelly runs away from him. As he pursued her, she looks for help to Martin, a French middle-aged man she met by accident. He helps her to escape and drives her to the airport and gives her a plane ticket to Paris. Then he thinks he can go back to his peaceful lonely life on his island. Of course, he is wrong and will be bothered again by Nelly…
Starring: Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Vernon Dobtcheff, Dana Wynter, Tony Roberts, Luigi Vannucchi
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
A Christmas Tale / Un conte de Noël (2008)
Comedy | Drama
Junon and Abel are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth, a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband and a tortured teenage son, Paul; Henri, the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan, the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth- -Joseph, the eldest–died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone–including lovesick cousin Simon and Henri's girlfriend, Faunia–return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly–and hilariously–devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Hustle / All the Other Angels (1975)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Phil Gaines is a bitter, cynical cop who investigates the case of a dead stripper/porno actress found on the beach. Gaines is experiencing a troubled relationship with a hooker, and things don't get any better when the dead girl's father launches his own investigation.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert, Ernest Borgnine, Catherine Bach, Jack Carter
Director: Robert Aldrich
Tristana (1970)
Drama
When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope…
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
Director: Luis Buñuel
The Hunger (1983)
Horror | Romance | Thriller
The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don't age… until Miriam has enough of them. Unfortunately that's currently the case with John, so his life expectancy is below 24 hours. Desperately he seeks help from the famous Dr. Sarah Roberts. She doesn't really belive his story, but becomes curious and contacts Miriam … and gets caught in her ban, too.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Beth Ehlers, Dan Hedaya
Director: Tony Scott
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Les bien-aimés / Beloved (2011)
Drama | Musical | Romance
In London, a mother and daughter navigate their respective romances; Madeline rekindles an affair from thirty years earlier, while her daughter Vera is caught between a musician who cannot commit and her ex, who still pines for her.
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Milos Forman, Paul Schneider, Radivoje Bukvic, Michel Delpech
Director: Christophe Honoré
