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Nicolas Giraud has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s.
Thank You for Your Service
2017
Drama · War

Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
Dir. Alexandre Arcady · With Nora Arnezeder, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Anne Parillaud

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
Dir. David Oelhoffen · With Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek

as Andrej Zborowski
Prime Video · Included+2
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche
A group of friends on a climbing vacation ignore warnings that the mountains are closed and start their ascent anyway. Collapsing bridges, bear traps and other dangers threaten to splinter the group… when the real hell begins and an unseen villain begins picking them off one by one.
Dir. Abel Ferry · With Fanny Valette, Johan Libéreau, Maud Wyler
Three teenagers skip school in order to explore an abandoned film studio lot where they catch sight of a woman being dragged by a masked man.
Dir. Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo · With Anne Marivin, Théo Fernandez, Francis Renaud

In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by themselves while their men are off fighting in World War I. But things become complicated with the arrival of American troops.
Dir. Xavier Beauvois · With Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry

Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…
Dir. David Oelhoffen · With Matthias Schoenaerts, Reda Kateb, Adel Bencherif
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