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Malik Zidi has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
Recurring themes

Omar Killed Me
2011
Drama · Thriller

White Bird in a Blizzard
2014
Thriller · Drama

The Outsider
2016
Thriller · Drama

The Operative
2019
Drama · Thriller

Corporate
2017
Drama · Thriller

Locke
2014
Drama · Thriller

Frankie & Alice
2010
Drama · Thriller

Out in the Dark
2012
Drama · Romance
In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the failures. From the 90s to the 2010s, it is the portrait of a whole generation that is emerging through its objective.
Dir. Anthony Marciano · With Max Boublil, Alice Isaaz, Malik Zidi

A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Dir. Alexandre Aja · With Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi

In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...
Dir. Laurent Boutonnat · With Gaspard Ulliel, Marie-Josée Croze, Albert Dupontel

When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears... Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are forced to join forces to uncover the truth.
Dir. Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury · With Virginie Ledoyen, Paul Hamy, Sandrine Bonnaire

April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from France to re-establish order. 2 men confront each other: Philippe Legorjus, chief of the terrorist squad, and Alphonse Dianou, head of the kidnappers. Through their shared values, they will attempt to make discussion triumph. But, in the middle of a presidential election, when the stakes are political, order isn't always dictated by morality. A violent and troubling epic that marks the return of Mathieu Kassovitz in front and behind the camera.
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz · With Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison.
Dir. François Ozon · With Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Ludivine Sagnier

In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.
Dir. François Ozon · With Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier

Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young people who have been tasked with the creation of a jihadist cell and whose mission is to destabilise the city centre of Paris.
Dir. Nicolas Boukhrief · With Malik Zidi, Dimitri Storoge, François Civil

In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.
Dir. Édouard Deluc · With Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi
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