Catherine Deneuve

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

Dir. Lars von Trier · With Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse

In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.

Dir. Jacques Demy · With Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin

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.

Dir. Kheiron · With Kheiron, Catherine Deneuve, André Dussollier

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

Dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud · With Chiara Mastroianni, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.

Dir. Jacques Demy · With Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin, Jean Marais

Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.

Dir. Tony Scott · With Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. 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 combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

Dir. Jacques Demy · With Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli

Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.

Dir. François Ozon · With Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Dir. François Truffaut · With Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret

As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horacio is doomed.

Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero

The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.

Dir. Emmanuelle Bercot · With Rod Paradot, Catherine Deneuve, Sara Forestier

When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.

Dir. Arnaud Desplechin · With Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny

A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.

Dir. Emmanuelle Bercot · With Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel, Cécile de France

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

Dir. Jaco Van Dormael · With Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare form the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle. As the struggle against European imperialism sweeps Indochina, Jean-Baptiste and Camille have to choose sides and Éliane faces the emotionally difficult challenge of raising the child of her daughter and ex-lover.

Dir. Régis Wargnier · With Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh-Dan Pham

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.

Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet

Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.

Dir. Éric Lartigau · With Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup

A young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.

Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau · With Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Luigi Vannucchi

When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of her husband to make him president. Put aside because she was considered too old-fashioned, Bernadette decided to take her revenge by becoming a major media figure.

Dir. Léa Domenach · With Catherine Deneuve, Denis Podalydès, Michel Vuillermoz

A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.

Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · With Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve

A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.

Dir. Alain Corneau · With Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve

In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acquiescent wife, Suzanne, whose father had founded the factory, takes over management duties during Robert's convalescence.

Dir. François Ozon · With Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini

Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.

Dir. Martin Provost · With Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve, Olivier Gourmet

A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds.

Dir. Thierry Klifa · With Catherine Deneuve, Diane Kruger, Nekfeu

Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom.

Dir. Valérie Lemercier · With Valérie Lemercier, Lambert Wilson, Catherine Deneuve

Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.

Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda · With Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke

A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

Dir. Benoît Jacquot · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni

French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.

Dir. David Caviglioli, Hugo Benamozig · With Vincent Dedienne, Catherine Deneuve, Alice Belaïdi