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Gilles Cohen has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by A Prophet.
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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
2017
Thriller · Drama

Sky High
2020
Action · Drama

The Abyss
2023
Thriller · Drama

Snitch
2013
Action · Drama

Colt 45
2014
Drama · Thriller

Riders of Justice
2020
Action · Comedy

Dead Man Down
2013
Thriller · Action

Rust Creek
2019
Thriller · Drama

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif

The true story of the Irish national Maureen Kearney- head tradeunion representative-turned-whistleblower of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. After denouncing top-secret deals that shook the sector, Kearney’s life is suddenly turned upside-down when she is violently assaulted in her own house.
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With Isabelle Huppert, Grégory Gadebois, Marina Foïs

38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he holds the key to her promotion.
Dir. David Moreau · With Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Gilles Cohen

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï

Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family is in danger.
Dir. Fred Cavayé · With Vincent Lindon, Gilles Lellouche, Nadine Labaki

Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.
Dir. Douglas Attal · With Pio Marmaï, Vimala Pons, Benoît Poelvoorde
11 years ago, inspector Malik couldn’t solve a kidnapping case and a little girl died. Now with only a few days before the crime gets classified, he decides to reopen the case. Malik owes it to the mother and to himself. As he digs into the past, a child is kidnapped again. The pattern is the same one as a decade ago, it’s no coincidence. Malik knows he has a few days to make things right and to bring justice.
Dir. Juan Carlos Medina · With Sami Bouajila, Julie Gayet, Anne Azoulay

1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission – more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever – he is forced to team up with a young new colleague, the promising OSS 1001.
Dir. Nicolas Bedos · With Jean Dujardin, Pierre Niney, Wladimir Yordanoff

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Dir. Gabriel Le Bomin · With Lambert Wilson, Isabelle Carré, Olivier Gourmet
Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will feel fascination for this world, as well as for its attractive director, Agnès.
Dir. Mathieu Sapin · With Alexandra Lamy, Finnegan Oldfield, Gilles Cohen
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he ?
Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise Bourgoin
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