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Mélanie Laurent has 31 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Inglourious Basterds.
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Enemy
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 12%Max · Included

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

The Mad Women's Ball
2021 · Movie · Actor · Director · Writer
Top 13%Prime Video · Included

Tomorrow
2015 · Movie · Actor · Director
Top 15%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Oxygen
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Netflix · Included

Breathe
2014 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 34%Tubi · Free w/ ads

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz

An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Dir. Louis Leterrier · With Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon

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 young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
Dir. Gilles de Maistre · With Daniah De Villiers, Mélanie Laurent, Langley Kirkwood

A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
Dir. Mélanie Laurent · With Lou de Laâge, Mélanie Laurent, Benjamin Voisin

Climate is changing. Instead of showing all the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.
Dir. Mélanie Laurent, Cyril Dion · With Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent, Pierre Rabhi

A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.
Dir. Philippe Lioret · With Mélanie Laurent, Kad Merad, Isabelle Renauld

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
Dir. Radu Mihăileanu · With Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov

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
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may need some help in finding the woman of his dreams, and embracing loyalty rather than logic he turns to Jean-Claude for advice.
Dir. Olivier Van Hoofstadt · With Jean-Luc Couchard, Mélanie Laurent, François Damiens

Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Dir. Mélanie Laurent · With Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.
Dir. Mike Mills · With Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent

After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

Inspired by the true events of one of France's most notorious non-violent robbers, Bruno Sulak, in the 1980s. He led multiple heists, then captured public attention for his many daring escapes from police custody...always to reunite with his beloved lover and accomplice Annie, becoming both France's Public Enemy #1 and an icon of Freedom.
Dir. Mélanie Laurent · With Lucas Bravo, Yvan Attal, Léa Luce Busato
Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threatens to end their racing careers, but they fight to reach victory together.
Dir. Christian Duguay · With Mélanie Laurent, Pio Marmaï, Kacey Mottet Klein

After starting their own detective agency, Nick and Audrey Spitz land a career-making case when their billionaire pal is kidnapped from his wedding.
Dir. Jeremy Garelick · With Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Mark Strong

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
Dir. Bille August · With Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…
Dir. Rachid Bouchareb · With Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem

After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.
Dir. Mélanie Laurent · With Ben Foster, Elle Fanning, Beau Bridges

In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Dir. Chris Weitz · With Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Mélanie Laurent
Tired of life on the run, a pro thief decides to retire — but not before one easy last job with her partner in crime and a feisty new getaway driver.
Dir. Mélanie Laurent · With Adèle Exarchopoulos, Mélanie Laurent, Manon Bresch

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini

Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her temporary happiness is thrown when her neurotic 60-year-old Jewish father (Michel Blanc) suffers a delayed midlife crisis and announces that his young second wife is expecting a baby. Justine and her half-sister Dom, who is trying to adopt, are rather annoyed at the news. Coupled with resentment about her father’s absence when she was growing up, causes her to spiral into self-doubt. Overflowing with French charm, Justine gets by with the help of her family, friends, and newly discovered muse.
Dir. Jennifer Devoldère · With Mélanie Laurent, Michel Blanc, Géraldine Nakache
When Antoine returns to the island of Noirmoutier, secrets kept in the past resurfaces and threatens to change his family’s present.
Dir. François Favrat · With Mélanie Laurent, Laurent Lafitte, Audrey Dana

France, 1809. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up.
Dir. Laurent Tirard · With Jean Dujardin, Mélanie Laurent, Christophe Montenez
Valentine marries at the end of the 19th century, and love passes through her family from generation to generation.
Dir. Trần Anh Hùng · With Audrey Tautou, Bérénice Bejo, Mélanie Laurent

The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the latter disappears, he is forced to stand still, and soon discovers things about his ex-wife and, above all, his son. A terrible feeling of guilt overwhelms him and he decides to find his son at all costs...
Dir. Christian Carion · With Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent, Olivier de Benoist

As we follow a mother and her son, we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own and a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths.
Dir. Claudia Llosa · With Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Mélanie Laurent