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Olivier Marchal has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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as Norbert Marot
On Monday, September 10, 2012, Jacqueline Sauvage shot her husband the back three times. She then learned that their son had just committed suicide. And so the most publicized trial in recent years commenced.
Dir. Yves Rénier · With Muriel Robin, Olivier Marchal, Alix Poisson

In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
Dir. Olivier Marchal · With Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Gringe

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.
Dir. Olivier Marchal · With Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier

Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?
Dir. Fred Cavayé · With Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch

Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led by Richard Cross, from the Paris Criminal Brigade. Forced to collaborate in order to find the murderer and stop the bloody go-fast, Sara and Richard are both thrown in a breathless race against the clock on the roads of Spain and France.
Dir. Olivier Marchal · With Sofia Essaïdi, Assaad Bouab, Alberto Ammann

After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.
Dir. Olivier Marchal · With Gérard Lanvin, Tchéky Karyo, Daniel Duval
Forced out of his elite unit, a troubled cop launches his own rogue investigation when mysterious killings claim the lives of his former colleagues.
Dir. Olivier Marchal · With Victor Belmondo, Tewfik Jallab, Soufiane Guerrab

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.
Dir. Olivier Marchal · With Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy, Catherine Marchal

as Teddy Bardolino, Camille's maternal grandfather
Franck and Karine are offered a job on a cruise ship they can’t refuse. The only problem: their daughter Camille has to study for her finals but has other ideas of fun in mind instead… No problem! To straighten his daughter out and set her to work, Franck calls on his father André, a retired captain from the national police, hopelessly uptight and rigid. With military discipline, Camille’s finals will be a success! But this is the moment when the second grandfather Teddy, an eccentric and wild former nightclub manager and the total opposite of the strict André, chooses to return after many years abroad... Living together promises to be complicated…
Dir. Philippe Guillard · With Gérard Lanvin, Olivier Marchal, Camille Aguilar
Grandson of a legendary rugby player, son of a legendary rugby player, and he himself a legendary rugby player, Jo Canavero raises his only son, Tom, in a small village in the Tarn region. To the great displeasure of Jo, thirteen-year-old Tom is as good at math as he is useless on the rugby field. For a Canavero, the legend can't stop there, even if it means setting up a rugby team specifically for Tom, despite the wishes of the whole village and of Tom himself.
Dir. Philippe Guillard · With Gérard Lanvin, Olivier Marchal, Vincent Moscato

Pauline has her own way of doing road safety: as a trainer in a point recovery center during the day, she becomes a serial killer of drivers at night.
Dir. Jonathan Barré · With Laure Calamy, Tchéky Karyo, Grégoire Ludig

Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
Dir. Olivier Marchal · With Lannick Gautry, Stanislas Merhar, Kaaris
A mature podiatrist, his girlfriend and her teenage children travel Ibiza to live a crazy holidays.
Dir. Arnaud Lemort · With Christian Clavier, Mathilde Seigner, Léopold Buchsbaum
Fastlife: always go further, faster, to shine in the eyes of others: this is the motto of Franklin. Franklin is a megalomaniac obsessed by the desire to shine at any price. He will have to choose between becoming a man or continue to live the Fastlife...
Dir. Thomas Ngijol · With Thomas Ngijol, Karole Rocher, Julien Boisselier
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