
Jean-Paul Salomé
Directing
Biography
Jean-Paul Salomé, born in 1960, is a French director and screenwriter. After studying cinema at the Sorbonne Censier, he worked as an assistant in the shooting of films, notably in 1981 in the film Les Uns et les Autres by Claude Lelouch. Then he made two short films which were documentaries: L'Heure d'aimer in 1983 and La petite Commission in 1984. In 1991, he made his first feature film for television: Crimes et jardins for which he also wrote the scenario. He then directed other feature films, including Les Femmes de l'ombre with Sophie Marceau, released in 2008. In January 2013, he was elected president of UniFrance Films.
Known For

In post-war France, Jan Bojarski, a young Polish refugee, became the greatest counterfeiter of all time, the "Cézanne of counterfeit money". For more than fifteen years, this man led a double life, unbeknownst to his family, making counterfeits in a garden shed that were "truer" than the bills issued by the Banque de France... All these years, this peerless counterfeiter managed to avoid being caught by the police, and became the bête noire of Commissaire Mattei in a hunt that, for these two obsessives, turned into a duel.
The Money Maker

As the daring thief Arsène Lupin ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.
Arsène Lupin

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Female Agents

A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre

The true story of the Irish national Maureen Kearney- head tradeunion representative-turned-whistleblower of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. After denouncing top-secret deals that shook the sector, Kearney’s life is suddenly turned upside-down when she is violently assaulted in her own house.
La Syndicaliste

A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.
Mama Weed

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Super Plan

The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin, who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and deliquents in Europe, even thought he has come of age, now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay, a 13-year-old American who had vanished three years ago. To his astonishment, Nicholas's family welcomes him like their son, leaving Interpol and the FBI aghast. It is the beginning of a race against time for the investigators, family and Bourdin. But who is manipulating whom? And who is Frederic Bourdin in reality?
The Chameleon

In Montelimar, four young women whom life has not spared want to emerge from mediocrity. They decide to rob a bank, but everything is not so simple and the perfectly developed heist could turn into disaster.
Girls with Guns

Jean, a forty-year-old struggling, out-of-work actor has hit rock bottom. Although open to any kind of work, he can't get a break. At the unemployment office, his counselor has a rather odd proposal: he can get a job helping the police reconstruct crime scenes, by standing in for the dead victim. Jean's obsession for detail impresses the detectives, allowing him to take a leading role in a sensitive investigation in Megève ski resort, during low season, after a series of murders
Playing Dead

A group of French tourists goes on an organized trip to visit the American West. A dream trip from California to Las Vegas, passing through national parks and grandiose sites immortalized by the western.
Restons groupés

The trials and tribulations of a good guy who feels obliged to confess the truth to his wife or his boss every time he makes a mistake.
La vérité est un vilain défaut

Suzanne is a former singer but also a seductress in her sixties. During a reunion meal with the former musicians of the orchestra that accompanied her on her tours, the young men in love with the lady all hope to seduce her. All except one, who mysteriously finds death in the elevator, hanging by his tie. A hecatomb among the suitors begins. An employee of the morgue decides to launch a personal investigation.