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Gilles Paquet-Brenner has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s.
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On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner · With Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup

A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner · With Glenn Close, Max Irons, Stefanie Martini

A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner · With Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Chloë Grace Moretz
Having finally secured her first assignment from her family's demolition business, Sam Walczak is sent to supervise the destruction of an apartment house, only to discover a group of tenants still living in the condemned building. One such tenant, Jimmy, tells Sam an urban legend about a serial murderer who used to live in the building and entomb his victims in the walls. What's worse, the dead are believed to still harass the residents to this day.
Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner · With Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright, Deborah Kara Unger