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Thomas Bidegain has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by A Prophet.
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Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif

In a remote, isolated Lebanese village surrounded by land mines, Muslims and Christians live together in peace. As civil strife starts to engulf the country around them, the women in the village try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark by sabotaging the village radio, and then destroying the village TV.
Dir. Nadine Labaki · With Claude Msawbaa, Leyla Hakim, Nadine Labaki

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby

Ben and Laura are a passionate but volatile couple who embark on a round-the-world sailing adventure to give their relationship a new start. During their trip, they decide to explore a vast deserted island which they discover off the coast of Chile. Caught in a violent storm, they shelter in an abandoned whaling station for the night but wake up the next morning to find their boat has disappeared. Stranded in a hostile environment with no means of communication, dwindling supplies and winter approaching they must work together in a life and death battle for survival, that will challenge their feelings and change their relationship forever.
Dir. Thomas Bidegain · With Gilles Lellouche, Mélanie Thierry

Tonio, the son the bears King, is kidnapped by hunters in the Sicilian mountains. Due to the harshness of a winter that threatens famine, the Bear King decides to invade the land of men (in the hope of finding his son). Thanks to his powerful army and the help of a wizard, while he will succeed at both quests, he will soon find out that bears are not meant to live among men.
Dir. Lorenzo Mattotti · With Toni Servillo, Alberto Boubakar Malanchino, Maurizio Lombardi
A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.
Dir. Stéphanie Di Giusto · With Soko, Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.
Dir. Tom McCarthy · With Matt Damon, Camille Cottin, Abigail Breslin

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Samuel Labarthe, Jean-Paul Bordes, Mickaël Chirinian
Omar, better known as Omar the Strawberry, is an old-fashioned bandit. Forced to flee to Algeria, he makes a living out of petty crime, accompanied by his famous sidekick Roger. After decades of ruling the French criminal underworld, they must come to terms with their new life together, which until now has been one of debauchery and violence.
Dir. Elias Belkeddar · With Reda Kateb, Benoît Magimel, Meriem Amiar

Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.
Dir. Thomas Bidegain · With François Damiens, Finnegan Oldfield, Agathe Dronne

The French government is asking Gustave Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but he simply wants to design the subway—until he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past.
Dir. Martin Bourboulon · With Romain Duris, Emma Mackey, Pierre Deladonchamps

1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
Dir. Bertrand Bonello · With Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier, Louis Garrel

When Gino meets racing driver Bénédicte, it's love at first sight. But Gino has a secret. The kind of secret that can endanger their lives.
Dir. Michaël R. Roskam · With Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Éric De Staercke
Stéphane lives a quiet life as an eminent French Chef but when he decides to visit Soo, a mysterious Korean lady he fell in love with on Instagram, he'll embark on an adventurous journey full of discoveries.
Dir. Éric Lartigau · With Alain Chabat, Bae Doona, Jules Sagot
In a world where digital technology has invaded our lives, some of us end up cracking. Addict or technophobe, with family or at school, at work or in love, SELFIE tells the comic and wild destinies of Homo Numericus on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Dir. Vianney Lebasque, Cyril Gelblat, Tristan Aurouet, Marc Fitoussi, Thomas Bidegain · With Max Boublil, Blanche Gardin, Sébastien Chassagne
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