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Mathieu Kassovitz has 25 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including La Haine.
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La Haine
1995 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Wolf's Call
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Prime Video · Included

The Bureau
2015 · Series · Actor
Top 17%Paramount+ · Included

Apocalypse: The Second World War
2009 · Mini · Voice
Top 20%Prime Video · Included

Gothika
2003 · Movie · Director
Top 37%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Street Flow
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 43%Netflix · Included

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz · With Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.
Dir. Antonin Baudry · With François Civil, Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz

Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
Dir. Éric Rochant · With Mathieu Kassovitz, Sara Giraudeau, Stefan Crepon

as Self - Narrator (voice) · Voice
Prime Video · Included+1
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.
Dir. Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle, Jean-Louis Guillaud, Henri de Turenne · With Mathieu Kassovitz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds

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

The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris, Alexandre meets Mila, the daughter of his mother’s new partner, and invites her to a party. The next day, Mila files a complaint against Alexandre for rape, destroying family harmony and setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine that posits opposing truths.
Dir. Yvan Attal · With Ben Attal, Suzanne Jouannet, Charlotte Gainsbourg

After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz · With Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe

Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.
Dir. Olivier Casas · With Mathieu Kassovitz, Yvan Attal, Anaïs Parello

Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.
Dir. Alix Mathurin, Leïla Sy · With Bakary Diombera, Jammeh Diangana, Chloé Jouannet

Sebastien Nicolas is a reclusive realtor leading a double life – in his spare time he creates complex disguises based on acquaintances. Combined with minutely studied and rehearsed impersonations, Sebastien can disappear completely into other people's lives. Things spiral out of control after he impersonates the wrong man.
Dir. Matthieu Delaporte · With Mathieu Kassovitz, Bernard Murat, Marie-Josée Croze

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain
The incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission in a century plagued by power struggles, inequality and the oppression.
Dir. Ariel Zeitoun · With Nora Arnezeder, Gérard Lanvin, Tomer Sisley

Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles.
Dir. Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle · With Mathieu Kassovitz

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
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

John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.
Dir. Jez Butterworth · With Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel
An experienced airline pilot, Estelle leads a perfect life between long-haul flights with her loving, protective husband Guillaume. One day, by chance, in an airport corridor, she crosses paths with Ana, a photographer with whom she had a passionate affair twenty years earlier. Little does Estelle know that this reunion will send her into a nightmarish spiral, turning her life upside down and irrational.
Dir. Yann Gozlan · With Diane Kruger, Marta Nieto, Mathieu Kassovitz

A failed 40 year old comedian wants to organize the first Black protests in France but meeting with other French celebrities of the Black community will make it a whole new adventure.
Dir. Jean-Pascal Zadi, John Wax · With Jean-Pascal Zadi, Fary Lopes, Caroline Anglade
When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves.
Dir. Michele Placido · With Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz

A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz · With Vin Diesel, Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson
After stealing a gaming console from migrants, Sébastien tries to sell it to Patrick, a good guy. So far, nothing too serious. But when a rapper straight out of jail, a TV host willing to do anything to go viral and click traffickers get involved... Sébastien and Patrick become France’s most wanted bad guys.
Dir. Mouloud Achour, Dominique Baumard · With Roman Frayssinet, Djimo Salim, Ludivine Sagnier
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