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Jonathan Cohen has 29 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
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An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
Dir. Kheiron · With Kheiron, Leïla Bekhti, Gérard Darmon

A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.
Dir. Matthias Schweighöfer · With Matthias Schweighöfer, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ruby O. Fee
David, who gets by doing odd jobs, meets Léna, who has just moved up to Paris, and falls in love. But soon after, his life is brutally interrupted by the sudden death of his sister. Beyond the shock, and the pain, David now finds himself alone with his young niece Amanda to care for.
Dir. Mikhaël Hers · With Vincent Lacoste, Isaure Multrier, Stacy Martin

In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a fabulous life. From then on, Esther will do everything in her power to keep this promise. Through decades of trials and miracles of life, this film is the story of a true, funny and moving story, that of an incredible destiny and the greatest love there is: that of a mother for her child.
Dir. Ken Scott · With Leïla Bekhti, Jonathan Cohen, Joséphine Japy

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
Lucie is in remission and her illness is almost a distant memory. Her family pushes her to live life to the fullest, and in doing so Lucie meets the charming and arrogant Clovis, who is immediately beguiled by her wit and humor. It is Dalila, however, an eccentric and delightful dance teacher, who inspires Lucie to rebuild her life and to grow into the woman she always wanted to be. For her mother, for her daughter, for Clovis.
Dir. Anne-Gaëlle Daval · With Florence Foresti, Mathieu Kassovitz, Jonathan Cohen

A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.
Dir. Quentin Dupieux · With Anaïs Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche, Édouard Baer

After learning France is about to legalize pot, a down-on-his-luck entrepreneur and his family race to turn their butcher shop into a marijuana café.
Dir. Igor Gotesman · With Jonathan Cohen, Gérard Darmon, Liliane Rovère

Two years have passed. After missing their separation, the Leroy seem perfectly successful in their divorce. But the appearance of two new lovers in the life of Vincent and Florence will set fire to the powders. The match between the former spouses resumes.
Dir. Martin Bourboulon · With Laurent Lafitte, Marina Foïs, Alexandre Desrousseaux

Antoine is a lawyer living in New York. On his way back to France for the final round of a job interview, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. With a seven-hour flight ahead of them, they are going to have to speak to each other.
Dir. Alexandre Castagnetti · With Ludivine Sagnier, Nicolas Bedos, Jonathan Cohen
A black metal band it is about to split up. In their way to one last gig at Hellfest festival an accidental death triggers numerous misadventures to four metalheads.
Dir. Martin Le Gall · With Julien Doré, Yacine Belhousse, Audrey Fleurot

Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction.
Dir. Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache · With Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen, Noémie Merlant

Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the altar with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
Dir. Pascal Chaumeil · With Diane Kruger, Dany Boon, Alice Pol
An opportunistic music producer brings together a rabbi, a priest, and an imam to preach about peaceful coexistence through song. But he's in for a surprise when he realizes the religious leaders are far from saints.
Dir. Fabrice Eboué · With Ramzy Bedia, Fabrice Eboué, Guillaume de Tonquédec

Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting to protect their factory from being relocated. But nothing goes as planned... His producer Viviane wants to rewrite the ending and is threatening to cut the budget; his own crew goes on strike; his personal life is in shambles; and to make things worse, his lead actor Alain is an egocentric jerk. Joseph, an extra who wants to get into the film industry, agrees to direct the making of and shoot the behind-the-scenes. He takes his role very seriously and starts following around the crew, capturing all this mess... What follows is proof that the making of can sometimes be far better than the film itself!
Dir. Cédric Kahn · With Denis Podalydès, Jonathan Cohen, Stefan Crepon

Marion and Ben, thirty years old, meet on Tinder. That's about all they have in common; but the opposites attract each other, and they decide in the early morning of their meeting to go on vacation together despite the advice of their entourage. They will finally leave - to Bulgaria, halfway to their dream destinations: Beirut for Marion, Biarritz for Ben. Without a precise plan and, as they will soon discover, with very different conceptions of what a dream holiday should be.
Dir. Patrick Cassir · With Camille Chamoux, Jonathan Cohen, Camille Cottin
Two best friends stuck in boring jobs become bachelor party planners in Budapest.
Dir. Xavier Gens · With Manu Payet, Jonathan Cohen, Monsieur Poulpe
Vincent and Nefeli just moved in together. They're best friends and swore to never fall in love again. That is until Vincent meets Julie.
Dir. Victor Saint Macary · With William Lebghil, Margot Bancilhon, Camille Razat
When Frank is diagnosed with depression, his friends try to cheer him up -- and it quickly becomes clear that they're just as down and out as he is.
Dir. Arnaud Lemort · With Fred Testot, Jonathan Lambert, Arié Elmaleh
Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she’s allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven “princes.”
Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Isabelle Huppert, Lou de Laâge, Vincent Macaigne
Nour is a pleasant and funny person who works as an accountant at a fitness center in Paris. Everybody likes her, but she has no luck in her romantic endeavours because she is overweight with atypical looks. Her close friends try to give her advice, but they are not particularly successful in the love department either. Her mother and brother are also close, but they are of no help, rather the contrary. One day she witnesses a pole dancing class at her workplace, something that she would never dream of doing herself, but she sees how much the women in the class and their teacher are enjoying themselves, so she is tempted. Finally the teacher starts giving her private lessons since she is too ashamed of her body to do anything in public. Slowly but surely she gains confidence in herself and many things change in her life.
Dir. Katia Lewkowicz · With Melha Bedia, Valérie Lemercier, Alison Wheeler

Romain Faubert is a 39 year old, single, medical photographer... and a raging hypochondriac. His doctor and only friend Dr. Dimitri Zvenka thinks he knows the cure for Romain: dating! But with the arrival of freedom fighter Anton Miroslav, everyone might get more then they bargained for...
Dir. Dany Boon · With Dany Boon, Kad Merad, Alice Pol
François Sentinelle has two lives. By day, he is the most famous cop of Réunion Island, known for his tough methods and flowery shirts, pursuing criminals in his famous yellow defender. But the rest of the time, Sentinelle is also a charming singer.
Dir. Hugo Benamozig, David Caviglioli · With Jonathan Cohen, Raphaël Quenard, Emmanuelle Bercot

as Raspaillès _ (Lieutenant-colonel François-Yves Raspaillès)
French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.
Dir. David Caviglioli, Hugo Benamozig · With Vincent Dedienne, Catherine Deneuve, Alice Belaïdi
On the eve of a vote to greenlight the construction of a leisure centre where a primal forest currently stands, an unashamedly right-wing mayor sets out to trap his ecologist opponent. But both will end up being outwitted by a group of feminist activists who will confront the two men with their own contradictions, once and for all.
Dir. Gustave Kervern, Benoît Delépine · With Vincent Macaigne, Jonathan Cohen, India Hair
Arnaud Mustier, lawyer and brilliant philosopher, arouses the annoyance of his younger brother Jules, age sixteen. One day, Arnaud is a victim of a late adolescent crisis. Helped by Jules, he is going to catch up this phase of the life which he did not live.
Dir. Tristan Séguéla · With Laurent Lafitte, Victor George, Christophe Malavoy

Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he enjoys his wife and family and is content. One evening, he meets Elsa at a party and are immediately attracted to each other. Fifteen days later, they happen to meet again and the mutual attraction turns into infatuation. But his love for his wife and Elsa's rule about not dating married men prevents them from taking the next step. Instead, they fantasize about each other, and soon the fantasies mingle with the reality.
Dir. Lisa Azuelos · With Sophie Marceau, François Cluzet, Lisa Azuelos
It takes him suddenly at 40 years: Frédéric wants a baby, Claire never wanted one and they agreed on that. He commits the unforgivable and makes a child behind her back. Claire turns into a whale and Frédéric becomes a doting father.
Dir. Sophie Letourneur · With Jonathan Cohen, Marina Foïs, Jacqueline Kakou

as Graindemaïs
Gallic heroes and forever friends Asterix and Obelix journey to China to help Princess Sa See save the Empress and her land from a nefarious prince.
Dir. Guillaume Canet · With Guillaume Canet, Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Cassel
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