| 2013 – 114′ – Drama / Thriller –
Written by Costa Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg, Karim Boukercha.
Directed by Costa Gavras.
Starring Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Natacha Régnier, Céline Sallette.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

From legendary Academy Award®-winning writer/director Costa-Gavras (Missing, Z) comes Capital, a fast-paced, darkly comic, suspenseful drama set in the high stakes world of global finance.When the CEO of France’s Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil (Gad Elmaleh, Midnight in Paris) is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil’s brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund led by Dittmar Rigule (Gabriel Byrne, Vikings, In Treatment), erotic distractions from international supermodel Nassim (Liya Kebede), and adversaries with an agenda for destruction. Capital is a pointed commentary on how the Darwinian world of contemporary capitalism plays itself out across the global financial stage. Based on the book Le Capital by Stéphane Osmont, the film is directed by Costa-Gavras and written by Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg and Karim Boukercha. The film also stars Natacha Regnier and Celine Sallette.

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| 2013 – 105′ – Action / Thriller –
Written by Laurent Turner, Luc Bossi.
Directed by Eric Valette.
Starring Albert Dupontel, Alice Taglioni, Stéphane Debac, Sergi López, Natacha Régnier
Official Selection Rome International Film Festival, Cinemania French Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

Franck Adrien (Albert Dupontel), a bank robber convicted of a heist and sentenced to six months in prison, shares a cell with seemingly weak Jean Louis Morel. But once Morel gets released from behind bars, Adrien learns that Morel is really a sadistic serial killer who now knows private details about Adrien’s life. Adrien must break out of prison and catch Morel before he gets to Adrien’s family…and before France’s elite police detectives hunt Adrien down.

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| 2016 – 108′ – Drama, Action, Thriller –
Written by Eric Barbier, Trần-Minh Nam, Marie Eynar.
Directed by Eric Barbier.
Starring Yvan Attal, Bérénice Bejo, Jean-François Stévenin, Antoine Basler, Jacques Spiesser, Annie Cordy.
International Premiere COLCOA French Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

Simon Carrerra has just been released from prison and is now on parole. His old pal Albert entices him to renew his career in crime with a big- time heist of a celebrated diamond in Antwerp. This involves a mafia- style boss and a complicated robbery in a luxury hotel in Antwerp during the auction of the diamond. The “Florentine” is an historic jewel owned by Marie Neuville and her daughter Julia, two diamond experts. Marie Neuville’s sudden death puts Julia in charge of the sale. Because she’s young and inexperienced, she’ll encounter some flack. But, she’s determined. In Antwerp, Simon, posing as a friend of her mother’s and an expert in security, meets Julia. Slowly but surely, the two become closer… perhaps too close… He manages to get a double to the key, essential for the robbery. Simon has no choice but to betray Julia. The heist is a success. However, Scylla unexpectedly enacts a hidden part of his plan. He gets rid of his accomplices and makes it look like the diamond has disappeared in the ocean during what seems to be vengeance murder. But Simon and Albert escape the massacre in extremis. Discovering that Julia is being accused of complicity and that the death of her mother was linked to Scylla’s gang, Simon decides to take action: He’ll help Julia get the diamond back and avenge her mother’s death…

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| 2018 – 84′ – Film Noir / Thriller –
Written by Christian Carion
Directed by Christian Carion.
Starring Mélanie Laurent, Guillaume Canet, Olivier De Benoist, Antoine Hamel.
North American Premiere COLCOA French Film Festival
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

Estranged from his family and now living abroad, dedicated geologist Julien receives a phone message from his ex-wife, Marie, announcing that their 7-year-old son has disappeared while on a camping trip in the woods. Wracked with guilt and desperate to find his son, Julien frantically plunges into that mission with a vengeance. Guillaume Canet gives the film a taut, seething edge, as Julien, and Melanie Laurent is moving as his grieving wife, Marie. Perhaps most compelling is the fact that director Christian Carion devised a plan whereby Canet improvised his scenes, in chronological order, not knowing what was in store for him at each narrative turn — a tactic that injects the thriller with enormous tension and suspense.

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| 2013 – 101′ – Drama / Thriller –
Written by Catherine Corsini and Benoît Graffin.
Directed by Catherine Corsini.
Starring Clotilde Hesme, Raphael Personnaz, Arta Dobroshi, Adele Haenel.
Official Competitions Cannes International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Rendez-vous With French Cinema in New York.
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release.|

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Al, a young man from a modest background, is ten days away from marrying the daughter of his boss, along with succeeding him as the head of the car dealership where Al has been working for most of his life. One night, while coming back drunk from his bachelor party, Al commits a hit-and-run when he hits a man by accident and is urged to leave the scene of the crime by his two childhood friends who are with him in the car. The next day, gnawed by guilt, he decides to go to the hospital to inquire anonymously about his victim. What he does not know is that the entire accident was witnessed from a balcony by a young woman, Juliette, who is going through her own emotional upheavals. Juliette not only called 911, but also helped to contact the victim’s wife, Véra, a Moldavian illegal immigrant whom she decides to help and keep company at the hospital. But when Juliette recognizes Al as the reckless driver in the hospital corridor, for some reason she is unable to denounce him. Gradually they get to know each other better through more frequent meetings and phone calls, and Juliette becomes a mediator between Al and the unsuspecting Véra. However, things get complicated when romantic feelings between Juliette and Al start to arise, and Véra finally finds out about their secret relationship.

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| 2013 – 90′ –  Drama / Thriller / Romance –
Co-Written & Directed by Elie Wajeman.
Starring Pio Marmai, Cédric Kahn, Adèle Haenel, Guillaume Gouix, Sarah Lepicard, David Geselson.
Official Competition Cannes Film Festival – Directors Fortnight, COLCOA French Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |

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Alex (Pio Marmai) , 27, lives in a working-class Paris neighborhood and sells drugs for a living, continuously paying off the debts of his brother Isaac (Cedric Kahn), who’s becoming a real burden. When his cousin, who has just returned from completing his military service in Israel, tells him he’s opening a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex thinks that joining him might be the life-changing opportunity he was waiting for. But in order to leave, Alex must quickly find enough money and accomplish his “aliyah” (the term for Jews emigrating to Israel) which involves, among other things, Hebrew lessons and connecting with his Jewish roots. He also has to leave behind his beloved city of Paris, his former lover Esther, his lifelong friend Mathias, and Jeanne, a woman whom he’s just met but has the potential of becoming someone important in his life. Torn between making his aliyah, his drug selling, his complicated love life and a destructive brother, Alex will have to find his own way and make a final decision.

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| 2010 – 113′ –  Thriller / Biopic / Drama / Crime -,
Written by Abdel Raouf Dafri, Jean-François Richet
Directed by Jean-François Richet.
Based on Jacques Mesrine’s memoirs.
Starring Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Gérard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan, Olivier Gourmet, Michel Duchaussoy, Anne Consigny.
Official Selections COLCOA French Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival. 5 César Awards nomination including Best Director.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release.|

The second opus of a 2-part biopic dedicated to the 70’s most wanted French gangster, MESRINE: ENEMY PUBLIC #1 starts when, now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number 1 and is eventually condemned to a maximum-security prison where he writes his memoirs, establishing himself as a household name and the anti-hero across France. Mesrine stages another daring escape and disappears into the lawless underworld, taunting the police and reinventing himself as a celebrity criminal through his savvy manipulation of the media. After such a monumental rise, comes the inevitable fall as the police close in, bringing the life of Jacques Mesrine to full bloody circle.(The first part of the biopic MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT, is also available on COLCOA VIRTUAL CINEMA)

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| 2010 – 113′ –  Thriller / Biopic / Drama / Crime -,
Written by Abdel Raouf Dafri, Jean-François Richet
Directed by Jean-François Richet.
Based on Jacques Mesrine’s memoirs.
Starring Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche, Myriam Boyer, Michel Duchaussoy, Roy Dupuis, Elena Anaya.
Official Selections COLCOA French Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival. 5 César Awards nomination including Best Director.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release.|

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The first opus of a 2-part biopic dedicated to the 70’s most wanted French gangster, MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT introduces us to Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), a loyal son and dedicated soldier 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 (Gérard Depardieu) Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder. After pulling off an audacious heist he and his lover Jeanne (Cécile de France) flee to Canada where the opportunity of one big payout lures him out of hiding and propels him towards international notoriety. (MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY #1, the second part is also available on COLCOA VIRTUAL CINEMA)

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| 2017 – 117′ – Thriller, Drama –
Co-Written by Christophe Barratier and  Jérôme Kerviel.
Directed by Christophe Barratier.
Based on a true story.
Starring Arthur Dupont, François-Xavier Demaison, Sabrina Ouazani, Mhamed Azreski, Thomas Coumans.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films U.S. Release.|

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Before the subprime mortgage crisis began unfolding in 2008, causing chaos in world markets and misery among millions of homeowners, another financial apocalypse was already underway at one of France’s most prestigious banks. And only one man, a young trader, is the alleged responsible for the first and most extravagant in a series of scandals that will shake the financial markets worldwide: Jérôme Kerviel. Indeed, the biggest banking loss of its kind in history (almost 5 billion Euros) is discovered at the French bank Société Générale and soon attributed to this quiet, low-profile, 31 years old employee…Hired as a simple clerk at the same bank, 8 years before, no one could have predicted that Jérôme Kerviel would go so far, so fast. He became the star of the trading floor, nicknamed “the cash machine” by his colleagues. When all was said and done, the bank suffered a loss of €4.9 billion and Kerviel was fired, sued, arrested and imprisoned, becoming the most famous Frenchman to ever sit in front of a Bloomberg Terminal and pay the price for it. Christophe Barratier (‘THE CHORUS’) tells the true story of France’s greatest financial scandal.

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| 2006 – 102′ –  Thriller -,
Co-Written & Directed by Guillaume Canet.
Based on Harlan Coben’s novel.
Starring François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nathalie Baye, François Berléand, Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Canet.
Official selection COLCOA French Film Festival. 9 César Awards nominations. Winner César Awards for Best Actor (François Cluzet), Best Director, Best Editing, Best Score.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release.|

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TELL NO ONE, the second film directed by Actor/filmmaker Guillaume Canet, is based on Harlan Coben’s international best selling thriller about pediatrician Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet – INTOUCHABLES) who still grieves the murder of his beloved wife Margot Beck eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to TELL NO ONE. Premiered at COLCOA, the thriller became a Summer Box office hit the same year in the U.S.

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