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Jean-Paul Salomé has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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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

In post-war France, Jan Bojarski, a young Polish refugee, became the greatest counterfeiter of all time, the "Cézanne of counterfeit money". For more than fifteen years, this man led a double life, unbeknownst to his family, making counterfeits in a garden shed that were "truer" than the bills issued by the Banque de France... All these years, this peerless counterfeiter managed to avoid being caught by the police, and became the bête noire of Commissaire Mattei in a hunt that, for these two obsessives, turned into a duel.
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With Reda Kateb, Sara Giraudeau, Bastien Bouillon

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain
Jean, a forty-year-old struggling, out-of-work actor has hit rock bottom. Although open to any kind of work, he can't get a break. At the unemployment office, his counselor has a rather odd proposal: he can get a job helping the police reconstruct crime scenes, by standing in for the dead victim. Jean's obsession for detail impresses the detectives, allowing him to take a leading role in a sensitive investigation in Megève ski resort, during low season, after a series of murders
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With François Damiens, Géraldine Nakache, Lucien Jean-Baptiste

A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With Isabelle Huppert, Liliane Rovère, Hippolyte Girardot
As the daring thief Arsène Lupin ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With Romain Duris, Kristin Scott Thomas, Eva Green

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A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With Sophie Marceau, Michel Serrault, Frédéric Diefenthal