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Michel Duchaussoy has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Mesrine: Public Enemy #1.
Stolen
2009
Crime · Drama
After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media attention and public adoration, Mesrine becomes increasingly paranoid and isolated, leading to a dramatic confrontation with the law that ultimately seals his fate as the nation's most infamous public enemy.
Dir. Jean-François Richet · With Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
Dir. Jean-François Richet · With Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner · With Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup
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
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.
Dir. Yves Robert · With Pierre Richard, Jean Carmet, Jean Rochefort
A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.
Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet
Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.
Dir. Laurent Tirard · With Maxime Godart, Valérie Lemercier, Kad Merad
The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, when she was living in poverty with her mother and brother in a small village in southern France. She decides to go back to her birthplace to get the lawyer to stop the letters, but also to visit her childhood sweetheart and her long-forgotten brother, in order to find peace within herself.
Dir. Yann Samuell · With Sophie Marceau, Jonathan Zaccaï, Marton Csokas
An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories.
Dir. Richard Berry · With José Garcia, Marion Cotillard, Michel Duchaussoy
A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.
Dir. Daniel Cohen · With Florence Loiret Caille, Benoît Poelvoorde, Natacha Lindinger
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