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Céline Sallette has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Connection.
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Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
Dir. Cédric Jimenez · With Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure

Not less than 3 men and 40 animals were found dead on the Breton beaches. The identity of the killer is an open secret: green algae. Inès Léraud is still a young journalist when, driven by an ecological conscience, she decides to go to Brittany to investigate this phenomenon. Through her encounters with whistleblowers, scientists, farmers and politicians, she elucidates, not without difficulty, half a century of silence: samples that disappear in laboratories, bodies buried before being autopsied, influence games, pressure... Will the truth win?
Dir. Pierre Jolivet · With Céline Sallette, Nina Meurisse, Pasquale D'Inca

In the shadow of an enormous hydraulic dam, the lives of the residents of a small French town are changed to their core when hundreds of previously dead relatives all return home on the same day.
Dir. Fabrice Gobert · With Anne Consigny, Frédéric Pierrot, Clotilde Hesme
For nine weeks, thirteen contenders will have to compete in a beautiful villa to try to seduce Marc, an airline pilot, looking for love. Which of these women will manage to light the flame?
Dir. Jonathan Cohen, Jérémie Galan, Florent Bernard · With Jonathan Cohen, Ana Girardot, Adèle Exarchopoulos
After its football team is disqualified for insulting a referee during a major game, a small country town risks losing its funding along with its field. To avoid this disaster, there is only one solution: creating a new team made up exclusively of women to defend the city’s colors! But in a community where football has always been an activity reserved for men, these women’s new status will be sure to shake up the daily lives of the town’s residents…
Dir. Mohamed Hamidi · With Kad Merad, Alban Ivanov, Céline Sallette

The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
Dir. Bertrand Bonello · With Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette

Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Resources, working for a huge French agro-food company. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. While an investigation is underway, stuck between her traumatized colleagues and under pressure of a powerful hierarchy, she will have to get by on her own.
Dir. Nicolas Silhol · With Céline Sallette, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane De Groodt
Roman loves Camille as much as he loves his two daughters. But he is hiding from all of them a serious problem of addiction, which could endanger his dearest. Does love have a chance to survive when trust is broken?
Dir. Audrey Diwan · With Pio Marmaï, Céline Sallette, Maxence Tual

Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French countryside. Accompanied by Mike, a young, quirky taxi driver, they set off in the direction of France’s major wine regions. Together, they are going to discover not only the wine trails, but also the road that leads back to Love.
Dir. Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Gérard Depardieu, Vincent Lacoste

The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Gad Elmaleh, Natacha Régnier, Gabriel Byrne

„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly. At the heart of the story lie the fate of the king and the birth of the French Republic.
Dir. Pierre Schoeller · With Gaspard Ulliel, Adèle Haenel, Olivier Gourmet