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Jean Reno has 59 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Léon: The Professional.
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Perrier's Bounty
2010
Action · Comedy

The Matador
2005
Action · Comedy

Logan Lucky
2017
Comedy · Crime

Miami Blues
1990
Action · Crime

War, Inc.
2008
Action · Adventure

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
2017
Thriller · Drama

Killing Cabos
2004
Comedy · Action

Two for the Money
2005
Comedy · Crime

The Round Up
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 12%Prime Video · Included

Ronin
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Prime Video · Included

My Penguin Friend
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Hulu · Included

Brothers of the Wind
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 37%Prime Video · Included

Subway
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman

Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Jacques, following in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy, harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing patterns in the water, with his vital signs more closely resembling those of dolphins than men.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno

A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo

After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.
Dir. Jean-Marie Poiré · With Jean Reno, Christian Clavier, Valérie Lemercier

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Dir. Roselyne Bosch · With Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart

A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen

A lost penguin rescued from an oil spill transforms the life of a heartbroken fisherman. They become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast ocean cannot divide them.
Dir. David Schurmann · With Jean Reno, Adriana Barraza, Nicolás Francella

The way of the eagle is to raise two chicks. The stronger is destined always to throw the weaker from the nest. Man also has his ways, often to hurt those closest to him. Lukas suffers at the hands of a father who has withdrawn since the loss of his wife. Killed whilst rescuing the infant Lukas, the boy now carries the burden of her death. Our eagle’s story begins in the nest. The first-born chick pushes his weaker brother to a certain death on the forest floor. But fate intervenes and the chick is found by Lukas. Naming him Abel, Lukas cares for the creature in secret, finding a love and companionship denied to him at home. But when the day comes to release Abel back into the wild, will Lukas find his own release into a new life?
Dir. Otmar Penker, Gerardo Olivares · With Manuel Camacho, Jean Reno, Tobias Moretti

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?
Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Jean Reno, Nicoletta Braschi

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin, Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.
Dir. Francis Veber · With Gérard Depardieu, Jean Reno, Richard Berry

Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz · With Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
Dir. Peter Chelsom · With Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette

Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert, Richard Bohringer

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.
Dir. Donato Carrisi · With Toni Servillo, Jean Reno, Alessio Boni

An international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker, race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet.
Dir. F. Gary Gray · With Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sam Worthington

The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" (played by Jean Reno) on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Fritz Wepper

After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris despite her crippling fear of flying. On the way she unwittingly smuggles something of value that has a charming crook chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.
Dir. Lawrence Kasdan · With Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, Timothy Hutton

In the wake of their parent's separation, three siblings spend the summer in the south of France with their estranged Grandfather. In less than 24 hours, a clash of generations has occurred between the teenagers and the old man. During this turbulent summer, both generations will be transformed by one another.
Dir. Roselyne Bosch · With Jean Reno, Lukas Pelissier, Hugo Dessioux

as Capitaine Philippe Boulier, dit "Le Squale"
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
Dir. Jean-Marie Poiré · With Jean Reno, Christian Clavier, Valérie Lemercier
Former Antigang legend Niels Cartier, known for his muscular and unconventional methods, left the force following an intervention that went wrong and led to the death of his wife. When the gang of bank robbers responsible for her death reappears eight years later, Niels won't let anyone stand in his way to seek revenge. Even if it means forming an explosive duo with his temperamental 14-year-old daughter.
Dir. Benjamin Rocher · With Alban Lenoir, Jean Reno, Sofia Essaïdi

A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
Dir. Richard Berry · With Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
Dir. Gérard Krawczyk · With Jean Reno, Hirosue Ryoko, Michel Muller

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.
Dir. David Bowers, Sam Fell · With Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen

A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
Dir. Daniel Cohen · With Michaël Youn, Jean Reno, Raphaëlle Agogué

as Commissaire Pierre Niémans
Prime Video · Included+2
No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher in the end of the world. A murder victim with the same DNA as Christ. A serial killer mimicking the deaths of the 12 Apostles. Inspector Niemans and a young, rebellious detective team up with a beautiful expert in religion to crack the case before their elusive suspect completes the cycle of terror, paving the way to an even bigger bloody catastrophe.
Dir. Olivier Dahan · With Jean Reno, Benoît Magimel, Camille Natta

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Dir. Tony Bill · With James Franco, David Ellison, Jean Reno
The world's top thieves join forces to pull off the heist of a lifetime. But when they find themselves pursued across Europe by a legendary French detective, they'll have to take their game to the next level.
Dir. Stephen Fung · With Andy Lau, Shu Qi, Zhang Jingchu

The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.
Dir. Jean-Marie Poiré · With Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Muriel Robin
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